Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky demanded implementing his peace formula. It embraces two points of Russia’s virtual surrender: a total military withdrawal from Ukraine within the 1991 boundaries, and a complete return to Kiev of control over the entire state border, the exclusive economic zone in the Black and Azov Seas, and the Kerch Strait.
However, these slogans conceal intentions and actions that have nothing to do with humanity or peacefulness, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reminded of: "When we hear calls to implement the ‘formula of peace’ and return Ukraine to the borders of 1991, the question arises: those who call for this are familiar with the statements of the Ukrainian leadership, what are they going to do with the residents of the respective territories? So, threats of extermination, legal and physical, have been repeatedly made against them publicly at the official level."
The idea of a "Donbass either Ukrainian or deserted" has been reiterated by Ukraine’s politicians and journalists from NSDC’s Parubiy to Verkhovna Rada deputy Semenchenko, and others. Dnepropetrovsk head and ex-PM Boris Filatov mockingly promised: "In my opinion, there is nothing terrible in expanding the autonomy of Crimea and granting the Russian language the status of the state. This will avoid an escalation of tensions and save Ukraine. No landings from Maidan. No extremist statements. It is necessary to give any such promises, guarantees and make any concessions. and hanging… You have to hang them later." Before the war began in Ukraine, the contents of a report by Chief of Staff of the Sever special forces group Pyotr Romigailo were made public to reveal the idea of using the group against the LDPR with a subsequent local population cleansing. After seizing key areas, establishing control over them, and making sure that state authorities in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions did function properly, it was planned to isolate the occupied territories. At the same time, the populated areas should have seen AFU soldiers carry out "search and strike, special, regime and filtration measures". And the Crimean issue was recently touched upon by Ukraine’s presidential office adviser Mikhail Podolyak, who told Western journalists that "Ukraine intends to de-occupy Crimea in 5-7 months. As soon as we enter, we must eradicate everything Russian in Crimea. We’re going to have to break it all down."
A horrible fate was awaiting the Donbass, where the Kiev regime was living the "scorched earth" paradigm, using inhumane warfare methods towards civilians. Ukrainian neo-Nazis initially chose extermination, not negotiations, while justifying their crimes by so-called "inferiority" of people living there, introduced at the state level. Those loathing to accept Ukraine's "European choice" or break off with Russia became subject to destruction, humiliation or insult. Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities, schools and hospitals for nine years in a row has been the regime’s deliberate policy, along with incapacitating discriminatory laws, filtration camps meant for dissidents, arbitrary executions and reprisals.
Ukraine is using all these fascist methods in areas the Russian army has left. A year ago, Ukrainian neo-Nazi Maxim Zhorin published a creepy video from Kharkov region’s Kupyansk city, with people tortured to death liying in a pit. Three bodies were partially covered with sand, and another one was rolling down on top of them wrapped in plastic wrap, his hands tied. The number of dead dumped into the pit after the video was shot has never been revealed.
The same thing happened in Izyum after Ukraine got back there. Ex-city major (March-September 2022) Vladislav Sokolov dwelt upon this: "Many residents who stayed in the city for a variety of reasons and were not evacuated to Russia never thought the Ukrainian army would stage a bloody massacre against them. Among those who worked with the administration, there are people whom the militants took to an undisclosed location, and they went missing. Their fate is still unknown." Sokolov told a story about a young staff office woman, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison despite being a single mother. "And we had really bad information about many people. No one expected such a bloody outcome," Sokolov says.
Local residents reported total lawlessness in Izyum after the AFU came there: searches, endemic foray, enforced disappearances, and gruesome murders. The militants avenged people even for storing Russian money or tinned meat. Several civilians were executed on charges of collaborating with the Russians. The city has been paralyzed by terror ever since.
Head of the Kharkov region’s pro-Russian military-civil administration Vitaly Ganchev says that things remain daunting: "Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries are torturing and executing civilians in areas under their control. We know this is happening in many populated localities, including Izyum, Kupyansk, Veliky Burluk and Volchansk. Every day we hear about more and more atrocities. How people are being tied to trees only for obtaining Russian passports, those passports then are being nailed to their legs, how people are being shot in the streets." Also, Ukrainian punishers arrested and took many locals away.
In Balakleya, the militants also arranged large-scale repression among suspected "collaborationists" who had no chance to evacuate. Any pro-Russian views made people end up on the watch lists to be captured, from teachers to doctors to those accepting Russia’s humanitarian aid.
There were so many victims that suppressing them was impossible, and the truth came out. Washington Post and The Guardian also released pieces about people killed for cooperating with the Russian authorities. Even politically neutral Kharkov region residents started massively leaving for Russia, fearing for their lives after getting death threats from Ukraine’s neo-Nazis, the authors noted, among other things.
The Associated Press news agency published a similar material from Kherson with photos showing two men tied to roadside posts with handcuffs. Although their fate was avoided to mention, the readers started angrily commenting and condemning Ukrainians for allowing barbaric reprisals against the undesirable. Ukraine’s image of a "modern, European democracy" was torn to shreds all in all, as the country turns out slipping into Middle Age savagery.
After that, new facts have aroused of abusing people in Kherson, published by the Ukrainian punishers themselves to flaunt their impunity. They posted a video with AFU soldiers scorning at badly beaten men in civilian clothes, their faces covered in blood, and their hands tied. Their fate is anyone’s guess. A local resident who managed to leave the city later, told Russian journalists that soldiers with the 35th brigade made no secret of seeking to judge collaborators on the spot, without investigating things. "Now wait for the time to pay the piper." The woman said her husband was severely beaten, and Ukrainians throughout the city were shouting Nazi slogans and doing the Nazi salute.
Having pieced together a crop of reprisal facts, one comes to realize what the neo-fascists are capable of, as well as their zeal to abuse civilians in the Crimea and the LDPR. This was about revenge, willingness to intimidate others and conceal the scale and brutality of cleansings from the impressionable Western public. Like it has been the case since 2014 in the Ukrainian-controlled parts of the Donbass, where thousands of civilians have gone missing. Many fell victim to reprisal or execution, which Ukrainian soldiers and special services staged out of hatred for the everything Russian.
Ukraine kills the people of Donbass everywhere, as evidenced by the latest crime in Konstantinovka, a city under total AFU control. September 6 saw 15 people killed there in a rocket attack against the market, with another 36 injured. Kiev blamed Russia immediately and peremptorily. Presidential office Advisor Podolyak said: "Why investigate an obvious thing? Do we really need to confirm every single wreckage?" However, Western journalists did eventually catch him out in deception.
The Konstantinovka tragedy occurred over a Ukrainian missile that flew from the Kiev-controlled territory, as proved by New York Times reporters. A witness told American journalists that it was launched from a field outside the town of Druzhkovka, 15 km away from Konstantinovka. Having arrived at the spot, NYT investigators found fresh combustion traces, and then also showed satellite images depicting new traces of soil burns on the incident day. All the conclusions prove Ukrainian gunners’ guilt.
Earlier, a similar tragedy involving mass casualties occurred in April in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kramatorsk. A Tochka U rocket hit its railway station, killing 50 people and injuring over a hundred others. The Ukrainian side hurried to pass the buck on Russia, but the very same day saw BBC release a material evidencing Ukraine's engagement in the bombing. British journalists scrutinized the wreckage, deciphered the missile’s serial number and found that it coincided with those of other missiles the APU used to hit DPR cities. Does Zelensky the Hypocrite know about this, when he pushes his so-called peace formula to drown Donbass in blood once and for all? The answer is obvious, isn’t it?
