Originally Posted by
Beamr
I can't help but thinking that the Kremlin wants to make it absolutely clear that if anyone turns against them there is no place in the world the traitors would be safe.
It's been so since Trotsky was killed in Mexico all the way to the polonium poisoning of Litvinenko: making it in a way that sends a message. Domestically.
Also the attempted murder of Sergei and Yulia Skripal with Novichock in Salisbury (which killed a British woman).