Chilling emails from within Russia’s FSB intelligence service talk about orders “from the very top” for civilians to be taken to concentration camps in a bid to conquer Ukraine.
The extent to which Putin planned to bring Ukraine to heel with extreme violence had it not held out is revealed in emails sent by a source in the FSB to a Russian human rights activist. Under the name Wind of Change, they were sent to Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of Gulagu, which highlights abuses in the country’s prisons. The emails are believed to originally be the work of one FSB officer but it's thought several now contribute to the emails.
The source says that the FSB, with the help of some Russian Military Intelligence, would carry out a “total cleansing” of society and politics in Ukraine. “And after all this, we could install any government in Kiev,” says the source.
The FSB anticipated resistance among the Ukrainian population but was ordered to deal with it ruthlessly in instructions that came “from the very top”.
In the emails, Wind of Change goes into detail about how the measures would be meted out to ordinary Ukrainians who dared to resist the Russian occupiers. This includes a “big terror” that “is being planned for Kherson, which will go through several stages”. The first would be reducing “massive protests down to local skirmishes, and to cause severe injuries to individual protesters”. “As soon as the mass of protests is reduced, the final stage of ‘door-to-door terror’ will begin.
“Here the FSB will play first fiddle and people will be detained in their homes at night during curfew and transferred to Russian territories - concentration camps and worse. “It is assumed that protests will cease completely after such cleansing.”
Russia expert at the Chatham House foreign policy think-tank, Keir Giles, told The Sun Online the documents chime with what we know about Putin’s plans for Ukraine. Giles, the author of Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You, pointed to preparations of mobile crematoria to follow its forces into Ukraine as a signal of Russia's murderous intentions. “If you saw that and they weren’t expecting to fight a war and were expecting to walk in and take over you would ask ‘who was that for?' “So they were planning to execute, murder and dispose of very large numbers of Ukrainian civilians. “That’s what the crematoria were for, that’s what the body bags were for.”
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that there have been over 16,000 forced deportations carried out by Russia.
Ukrainian Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the Wagner mercenaries trying to take Bakhmut are losing “considerable strength” and “very soon” his forces would take advantage of that “opportunity.” The Wagner Group is so desperate for fighters, it is recruiting on Pornhub.
You are far too smart to have actually believed that.
It must be motivated reasoning for someone who rejects Seymour freaking Hersh because he allegedly relied on a single source, to blindly believe these laughable claims.
Does anyone actually believe that the FSB would openly talk about "door to door terror"? This sort of thing is always couched in euphemism, at least since Lenin and Robespierre. Even the Nazis talked about "special operations" when they were talking about exterminating people.
Speaking of the FSB, I'm going through that biography of Putin by Western journalist Philip Short. It claimed that when the FSB stormed the Beslan school where Chechen terrorists were holding hundreds of children hostage, they protected children by using their own bodies as shields.
Interesting, crafted propaganda painting the FSB as sacrificing heroes instead of the murderous rampagers they actually were.
The Russians ordered a storming of a school full of hostages with T-72 tanks firing their 125mm guns, BTR-80s, and at least one Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter. Thermobaric RPO-A Shmel rockets were used to bombard the school, along with RPGs.
"Scores of hostages were moved by the militants from the burning sports hall into other parts of the school, in particular the cafeteria, where they were forced to stand at windows. Many of them were shot by troops outside as they were used as human shields, according to the survivors (including Kudzeyeva,[88] Kusrayeva[89] and Naldikoyeva[42]). Savelyev estimated that 106 to 110 hostages died after having been moved to the cafeteria."
Is it any wonder that 313 hostages died?
"Critics, including Beslan residents who survived the attack and relatives of the victims, focused on allegations that the storming of the school was ruthless. They cite the use of heavy weapons, such as tanks and Shmel rocket flamethrowers." ... Some human rights activists claim that at least 80% of the hostages were killed by indiscriminate Russian fire.[11] According to Felgenhauer, "It was not a hostage rescue operation ... but an army operation aimed at wiping out the terrorists."[81] David Satter of the Hudson Institute said the incident "presents a chilling portrait of the Russian leadership and its total disregard for human life".
Reminds me of the earlier Moscow theater hostage crisis, where the Russians gassed the hostages and terrorists alike with chemical weapons. "The security services pumped an aerosol anaesthetic, later stated by Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko to be based on fentanyl,[37] into the theater through the air conditioning system."
FENTANYL?! "Doctor Andrei Seltsovsky, Moscow's health committee chairman, announced that all but one of the hostages killed in the raid had died from the effects of the unknown gas rather than from gunshot wounds."
Russians sure are good at mass murdering the hostages they are supposed to be saving. The total disregard for human life is astounding and well-documented. It is the main reason they continue to lose in Ukraine now.
The USSR only won in world war 2 because it had deep enough manpower reserves to throw away millions of lives and still keep fighting thanks to US Lend Lease filling the critical gaps in Soviet production and resource capacity. That "victory" taught the Russians an extremely wrong lesson on how not to fight that was never un-learned.
Why is a British journalist, who is actually very critical of Putin's regime throughout the book, spreading "crafted propaganda"?
Anything that does not fit your agenda is "crafted propaganda".
Yes, fentanyl. But most of the hostages could have been saved if adequate preparations had been made, e.g. by having medical teams present and informing them of what kind of stuff had been used.
The Russian state is incompetent. Is that somehow news to you? This is taken for granted by all the Russian sources that I follow.
At least it was unintentional. Remember Waco?
And yet the officers of the FSB were using their own bodies to protect children, at least according to that book. Very surprising to me.
And the disregard for human life is the same as in the US. Remember when your Biden ordered the murder of an Afghan family because... ISIS-K blew up American soldiers?
LOL! WE WUZ BARBAROSSA VICTORS N SHEEEIT! Main character syndrome.
In the 0.001% chance that Ukraine actually prevails, are you going to take credit for that as well?