On December 25, ‘The New York Times’ published a detailed article about the Kherson Ukrainian partisans who actively and successfully acted this year against the Russian occupiers, including both the traditional activities of the underground and the shooting of the aggressor’s military personnel.
At the same time, from the article and photographs, published by its author, it is obvious that these feats were often performed by young people, including girls, as well as elderly people, by native Kherson residents. The article also showed the dungeons of Russian punishers in Kherson, where they tortured and killed Ukrainian patriots.
This irrefutable material, where the participants in the recent events did not hide their faces or names from the journalist, predictably caused a flurry of impotent anger from the aggressor. The key “talking head” of Russian military intelligence, Sergei Mardan (Leleka), “distinguished himself” in this matter by criminally urging the aggressor’s special services to “either take all these partisans to Simferopol, judge and send them to the “Black Dolphin” [prison] for life, or – destroy”, declaring aggressor’s illegal intends “to return to Kherson”.
And here it is not about the phantom aggressor’ pains, as the new Russia’s occupation of Kherson is an unattainable criminal goal. The specificity of Mardan’s current words is that he directly and publicly, as a well-informed person, recognizes precisely the role of the occupied Crimea as a place of enforced disappearances and executions of residents of mainland Ukraine by Russian invaders.
Let us remind you that Vladimir Ustinov, “Putin’s permanent representative” and veteran of Russian corruption, is trying to implement a similar function, but within the framework of criminal “trials” for the Crimea. Also, the example of Ruslan Abdurakhmanov, a resident of the Kherson region, stolen by the invaders in the fabricated “case of the Crimean Tatar battalion” to the occupied Crimea may be reminded, as human rights activists report gestural torture of him by the occupiers’ punishers of the in the “detention center” of Simferopol.
