Posted on 11/04/2022 4:51:16 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Not long after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, soldiers broke down the office door of Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov. They put a bag over his head, bundled him into a car and drove him around the southern city for hours, threatening to kill him.
Fedorov, 34, is one of over 50 local leaders who have been held in Russian captivity since the war began on Feb. 24 in an attempt to subdue cities and towns coming under Moscow's control. Like many others, he said he was pressured to collaborate with the invaders.
“The bullying and threats did not stop for a minute. They tried to force me to continue leading the city under the Russian flag, but I refused,” Fedorov told The Associated Press by phone last month in Kyiv. “They didn’t beat me, but day and night, wild screams from the next cell would tell me what was waiting for me.”
As Russians seized parts of eastern and southern Ukraine, civilian administrators and others, including nuclear power plant workers, say they have been abducted, threatened or beaten to force their cooperation — something that legal and human rights experts say may constitute a war crime.
Ukrainian and Western historians say the tactic is used when invading forces are unable to subjugate the population.
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Sounds just like our own FBI SWAT raids. The only thing missing is shackling their detainees.
The Russians haven’t changed much since the fall of the Soviet Union. Same old tactics.
If the Russians hadn’t changed much, these “mayors” would be in deep freeze Siberia. Doing labor camps.
of course, because it’s the same malicious snakes holding the positions of power
the only thing that changed was the country’s name ... the brutal mentality there never did
Maybe they are...
wow, you must have searched a long way back to find that one
btw a LOT of Freepers here were against Trump in early 2016, thinking he couldn’t win
but they eventually came around to support him
How fo I put Chicago on that list?
The main idea of Ukrainian propaganda is to destroy common sense.
You know, like the Russians shelling themselves at the nuclear power plant or planning to blow up a dam upstream from their positions.
Lol...does my rousting a fellow Trump hater bother you?
the main idea of Russian propaganda is to fool people into thinking Russia is a normal country that “just wants peace”
Yup.
Turns out Ukraine is pretty good at gaslighting.
You forgot to add subhuman orcs and all such stuff in line with the ideas of your soulmates from the 1930s. The Jews weren’t innocent after all. Everybody knew that they drink the blood of Christian children. Or so they said.
Maybe its time for you to take another extended vacation, troll.
Ukraine village mayor, 4 others found dead with hands tied behind their backs.
Olga Sukhenko, her husband and their son were abducted by Russian troops, police say; residents say they refused to collaborate with invading forces; 2 other men also killed
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-village-mayor-4-others-found-dead-with-hands-tied-behind-their-backs/
Its a war.
A war is not a dinner party. People usually die in wars.
And where is Siberia in all that?
Right, so you're defending russian execution of a female mayor, and family? Okay
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