Tatiana Stanovaya believes it is not that he wants to start World War Three, but because “he believes he must scare the Western elites to show they are playing with fire”.

In other words: The Dodgers officially are playing with fire now.

“Playing with fire has its consequences,” was the response from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov when asked whether Ukraine could have been behind the plot.

"Playing with fire has its consequences," said Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments quoted by the Reuters news agency.

President Yoweri Museven, who has ruled Uganda for almost four decades, had warned before the event that protesters were "playing with fire".