This was the night that a brazen attempt to kill Colonel-General Aleksandr Chayko, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS), and a coterie of senior military and intelligence officials almost succeeded. Russian investigators suggested this courier may not have known she was transporting explosives and said the device was detonated remotely. Dangerous Security Blind SpotsYesterday, 4 August, a well-known Russian expert in Washington pointed out in an analytical commentary how whoever is responsible for the incident is exposing a serious and “dangerous security blind spot, giving adversaries like Ukraine greater opportunities to target the Kremlin’s military elite.” But what still stands as unsubstantiated is whether this assassination plot was hatched in Ukraine – or possibly someplace else. “The means by which this attack was executed — a remotely detonated explosive device delivered on-site by a civilian — are also consistent with other assassinations deep inside Russian territory previously attributed to Ukraine,” Episkopos said.