Vladimir Putin ordered bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268

Ex-KGB and ex-FSB officer Boris Karpichkov makes this claim from an unknown location in the UK. Apparently he still has contacts in the GRU, Russian military intelligence.

As the Daily Mail explains

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But is all really as it seems over the story of Metrojet Flight 9268? Could there be another very disturbing explanation of how the aircraft was blown out of the sky? One man certainly believes so: Boris Karpichkov, a former spy with the KGB (later renamed the FSB) who now lives under a new identity with his wife and family at a secret location in England after fleeing here in fear for his life. His sensational claim at first seems unbelievable. For he maintains it was the Kremlin, not ISIS, that deliberately blew the plane out of the sky. And he says Putin cynically authorised the tragedy not only to obtain worldwide sympathy at a time when Russia was being treated as a pariah because of its aggression towards Ukraine, but also to gain support for its ostensible belligerence against ISIS, which Putin would use as a cover to attack rebel groups in Syria who were sworn enemies of his ally President al-Assad. Of course, this could simply be the most monstrous slur by a deeply disenchanted man. For it has to be said that Major Karpichkov fell out with his KGB paymasters over money he claimed was owed to him, and ended up in jail before fleeing to Britain. Yet his case deserves to be aired, particularly in view of the history of black propaganda emanating from Putin and his Kremlin cronies, and his argument is compelling.

ISIS has either taken credit for or accepted allegiance from perpetrators of various terrorist acts and disasters since 2014. That 'soda can bomb' sounds a bit silly.

Though this is the same guy who claimed Anna Chapman had a secret affair with Snowden and Gareth Williams (guy stuffed in dufflebag) was killed by Russian intelligence.

I admit it's difficult for me as a skeptic to totally dismiss this big allegation given the Putin regime's past history of shady stuff, some conspiracy theories being quite feasible. Just imagine the sick mind it would take to plan such a provocation.

Nevertheless, I won't throw caution to the wind and I think so far the better explanation is Putin's chickens simply came home to roost. And Putin being Putin of course took full advantage of these new developments to continue his war relatively unhindered.