Kiev Regime Forces to “Filtrate” Their Own Citizens in Recaptured Kharkov
The real cost in blood of the Russian strategic defeat and withdrawal in the Kharkov region
Kiev Regime Forces to “Filtrate” Their Own Citizens in Recaptured Territory
Those who will suffer the most from the withdrawal of Russian forces from territory in Kharkov in the north of Ukraine and elsewhere, and its recapture by Kiev regime forces are the civilian population.
The Kiev regime’s State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) announced on Friday that it had already begun conducting a “filtration” of civilians in Balakleya, one of the first major towns retaken in Kharkov.
On social media the SBI announced that, “The purpose of the measures is to prevent the subversive activities of the Russians and their allies” and that they would “carefully process information about persons who cooperated with aggressors” and hold “collaborators and traitors strictly accountable.”
They concluded ominously that - “The time of reckoning has come,”
The Kiev regime has recently enforced draconian new collaborator laws. Identifying anyone even just accepting humanitarian aid from Russians, posting pro-Russian messages on social media, or having a Russian passport as dual-citizens as “collaborators” with formal punishments of up to 15 years in prison.
But lets, be frank, being arrested and sent to prison is the best such “traitors and collaborators” can hope for. There is substantial evidence that many of those who died in Bucha outside Kiev in March were identified as “collaborators” and shot dead in the streets by the Kiev regime’s neonazi battalions conducting a “cleansing” in the city, as the police and local government openly announced.
Ukrainian Telegram channels were flooded by texts from Kiev regime authorities asking locals in recaptured territories to report any of their neighbors who had in any way cooperated with Russians.
Vitaly Kim, the governor of Kiev-controlled Nikolayev, has previously publically announced that special squads have been formed in Ukraine to hunt down and summarily execute “collaborators”, saying that such “traitors will be executed. It will be like that. And – I am not afraid of this word.”
It is very likely many civilians will be thus identified and massacred by the Kiev regime’s brownshirts. And the deaths then post facto blamed on Russian forces, of course.
This is why while there may be tactical or even strategic value for allied Russian and Donbass forces to withdraw at times in the conflict, there is a high cost to be paid by the Ukrainian people, when they do so. When Russian forces liberate an area, they then become responsible for the fate of the people there.
Mass evacuations of civilians were hurriedly conducted by withdrawing Russian forces in many towns in Kharkov but undoubtedly many didn’t make it or couldn’t leave. Videos circulated online and on media of seemingly endless convoys of civilians fleeing from Kharkov into Donbass or Russia itself.
[Video of civilian convoys fleeing advancing Kiev regime forces into Belgorod Russia https://t.me/TheRealPolitick/205]
This generates a very visceral fear and dread for those of us with family in east Ukraine.
One of the principle fears that people in east Ukraine have about cooperating with Russian forces or rising up on their own against the Kiev regime is fear that the Russians will leave and the Banderites will come back.
In much of Kharkov, that fear has just become their grim reality.
God save them, because Kraken and Azov et al won’t have any mercy.