Christo Grozev

partly with his own criticism of the course of the military operation back in 2023.

You may remember he was the person tasked with negotiation of the surrender of Yevgeny Prigozhin during his ill-fated attempt to take on the Kremlin in June 23.

But he was seen cracking jokes and laughing in the sidelines with Prigozhin on the day of the attack on the Kremlin itself.

So he was always seen as somebody who is not completely to be trusted.

Now, since that failure of him to align himself with the Kremlin completely during the attempted coup, he was sent to the front line.

And for the last year and a half, he almost never returned to Moscow.

He did return a couple of weeks ago, and that's the result of the attack on him.

I do believe it's most likely a Ukrainian operation, but I don't exclude completely the possibility that it may be also a domestic operation.