Russia has released a chilling propaganda video in which Moscow’s defense systems blow up Santa Claus and his reindeer, while the Kremlin remains silent over accusations it killed 38 people after shooting down an Azerbaijani passenger plane.
The propaganda video, broadcast on pro-Russian Telegram channels, shows a “Western” Santa Claus flying over a snowy Moscow while carrying a can of Coca Cola while wishing Russian citizens a Merry Christmas.
He can be seen carrying missiles on his sled that resemble a NATO Trident or a Minuteman III ICBM and others.
But within seconds, it explodes with a festive missile that leaves a firework in its wake.
The dark video then shows a missile operator sitting with Grandpa Frost, a Russian version of Santa Claus, who asks: “Is that all?”
The missile operator responds: “That’s it, the target has been destroyed.”
Then Grandfather Frost ominously says, “Well, we don’t need anything strange in our skies.” Happy new year!’
It comes just two days after Russia was accused of shooting down an Azerbaijian Airlines plane, killing 38 people.
The propaganda video showed a ‘Western’ Santa Claus flying over a snowy Moscow while carrying a can of Coca Cola and several NATO missiles on his sleigh.
The propaganda video was published on pro-Russian Telegram channels.
Santa Claus is seen flying through the air with a festive missile that left a firework in his wake.
The Embraer passenger plane had flown from Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to Grozny in the Chechnya region of southern Russia before diverting hundreds of miles across the Caspian Sea.
It crashed on the opposite bank of the Caspian after what Russia’s aviation watchdog said was an emergency that may have been caused by a bird strike.
Flight data recovered from downed flight J2-8432 suggests that the flight suffered “possible control issues” and “heavy GPS jamming and spoofing” during its approach to Grozny, according to Flightradar24.
In a final broadcast in Kazakhstan, the hero pilot ominously told air traffic control: ‘I can’t execute, control is lost!’ before the plane crashed nose down, killing 38 people.
As preliminary investigations revealed evidence that Russia may have hit the doomed plane with a surface-to-air missile, attention is turning to whether Putin’s forces interfered with the flight to cause it to crash in an attempt to cover up the mistake. .
Azerbaijani media CaliberCiting government sources, he suggested that the plane was subjected to “air defense and electronic warfare fire systems” that jammed its radars during the crossing.
Caliber speculated that the plane’s radars were jammed with the “goal” of the plane crashing into the water “where all witnesses would die and the plane would sink.”
The plane was denied permission to make an emergency landing in Russia and was told to instead cross the Caspian Sea on a major detour to Kazakhstan. Russia told Kazakhstan that the crew had decided to undertake the dangerous journey.
The dark video then shows a missile operator sitting with Grandpa Frost, a Russian version of Santa Claus (pictured).
Vladimir Putin (pictured) has been accused of allowing the Azerbaijan Airlines plane to become airborne.
Damage to the fuselage of the plane after the horrific accident on Christmas Day
There were 67 people on board the plane when it crashed, including 62 passengers.
The moment a passenger plane fell to the ground engulfed in a fireball during a forced landing on Christmas Day
A Russian Pantsir-S1 self-propelled medium-range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery system
Emergency services are shown above at the scene of the plane crash.
The Kremlin today refused to discuss allegations against Russia over the plane crash in Aktau, Kazakhstan, amid mounting evidence that a Pantsir-S air defense missile catastrophically damaged the Embraer plane.
“An investigation is underway into this aviation incident and until the conclusions that will be drawn as a result of the investigation are announced, we do not consider ourselves authorized to make any assessment,” Putin’s spokesman said.
“And we won’t.”
Separate investigations by Azeri and Kazakh officials continue to investigate the cause, and black boxes recovered from the crash site in Aktau are expected to shed light on the tragedy in the next two weeks.
Preliminary investigations suggest that a surface-to-air missile was fired at the flight from Naursky while the military was attacking Ukrainian drones with air defenses, according to Azerbaijani government officials.
A passenger on the plane that crashed in Kazakhstan told Reuters there was at least one loud bang as it approached its original destination, Grozny, in southern Russia.
“I thought the plane was going to fall apart,” Subhonkul Rakhimov, one of the passengers, told Reuters from the hospital, adding that he had started reciting prayers and preparing for the end after hearing the explosion.
After the loud bang, the plane behaved strangely, as if it were drunk, Rakhimov said.
“It was like I was drunk, it wasn’t the same plane anymore,” he said.