A plane arrived at Makhachkala airport from Tel-Aviv today. A large crowd gathered at the airport and ended up storming the fences and breaking first into the building, and then out onto the landing ground. As can be seen in the video (see URL in the title), the crowd is waving Palestinian flags. Eyewitnesses report cars are being stopped and the passports of passengers are being checked. Reportedly, the crowd is “looking for the Jews”.
That’s unfortunate. Is it true? I saw this on twitter but not a lot of info was given.
Unfortunately when emotions run high over a conflict like the one in Gaza it becomes easier for bad actors to manipulate the emotions of people and rile them up to do stupid things. According to a lot of Russian sources this event was organized and incited over Telegram channels with ties to Russian dissidents working for Ukrainian intelligence.
Undoubtedly the Russian government will come down hard on this, as they should. This is not a good look and is a breach of security at a major airport in a time of war. Criminal indictments are probably going to rain.