Besides the Russian military, there’s another thing that Ukrainian troops and police are being forced to contend with. According to interviews with dozens of soldiers, police officers, and civilians around Kupiansk, many of the local residents that remain are pro-Russian. Some of them are former or active collaborators of enemy troops.”Subjectively speaking, there are many separatists here,” said Yevhen Didkovskyi, a community relations officer with the 138th Battalion deployed in the area. “People who hate us on principle.
“Kupiansk is not a separatist city as such. According to local police, pro-Russian people were in the minority, especially before most residents fled west. But closeness to Russia’s border, prolonged Soviet entanglement and nonstop access to Kremlin propaganda conspired to breed resentment and pro-Russian sympathies at higher rates than normal.
This can be deadly for the troops and the civilians who help them. Multiple soldiers told the Kyiv Independent that their living quarters were targeted in ways that suggest that someone fed coordinates to the enemy.
A few soldiers quipped that people in the local marketplace are the first to know to clear out of the way when there’s something incoming.
Why are they allowed to stay there? I thought there was evacuation.
Anyone with pro-Russian sympathies should feel free to move to Russia.
Enjoy yourself. Lol
Come the end of the war pro-Russian residents will have to make a choice. A pledge of allegiance to Ukraine, or a loss of Ukrainian residency, and back to Russia.
Just get closer to them everytime, they don’t want their saviour raining missiles on them…
Well, at least Ukraine will know who to keep an eye on. They can visit their fellow collaborators in jail.
Better yet. Set up camps and empty the city until the war is over. Make it a humanitarian effort.
Let them stand in the pro Russia line or the pro Ukraine line. Just have the pro Russia line get on buses to the Russian border.
The treatment for traitors is universal…
Just start rounding these Fuckers up and push them towards the frontlines. See how they feel once it’s them in the fucking crosshairs.
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Besides the Russian military, there’s another thing that Ukrainian troops and police are being forced to contend with. According to interviews with dozens of soldiers, police officers, and civilians around Kupiansk, many of the local residents that remain are pro-Russian. Some of them are former or active collaborators of enemy troops.”Subjectively speaking, there are many separatists here,” said Yevhen Didkovskyi, a community relations officer with the 138th Battalion deployed in the area. “People who hate us on principle.
“Kupiansk is not a separatist city as such. According to local police, pro-Russian people were in the minority, especially before most residents fled west. But closeness to Russia’s border, prolonged Soviet entanglement and nonstop access to Kremlin propaganda conspired to breed resentment and pro-Russian sympathies at higher rates than normal.
This can be deadly for the troops and the civilians who help them. Multiple soldiers told the Kyiv Independent that their living quarters were targeted in ways that suggest that someone fed coordinates to the enemy.
A few soldiers quipped that people in the local marketplace are the first to know to clear out of the way when there’s something incoming.
Why are they allowed to stay there? I thought there was evacuation.
Anyone with pro-Russian sympathies should feel free to move to Russia.
Enjoy yourself. Lol
Come the end of the war pro-Russian residents will have to make a choice. A pledge of allegiance to Ukraine, or a loss of Ukrainian residency, and back to Russia.
Just get closer to them everytime, they don’t want their saviour raining missiles on them…
Well, at least Ukraine will know who to keep an eye on. They can visit their fellow collaborators in jail.
Better yet. Set up camps and empty the city until the war is over. Make it a humanitarian effort.
Let them stand in the pro Russia line or the pro Ukraine line. Just have the pro Russia line get on buses to the Russian border.
The treatment for traitors is universal…
Just start rounding these Fuckers up and push them towards the frontlines. See how they feel once it’s them in the fucking crosshairs.