SBU officers during a raid in Kharkiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 30.In the Kharkiv region, punitive raids are being carried out against SBU suspects of pro-Russian sentiments, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center.
"In the Kharkiv region, militants of the nationalist unit "Kraken", formed mainly from radicals and rapists and murderers released from prisons, carry out punitive raids, during which the so-called death squads break into the houses of local residents at night, suspected by the SBU of pro-Russian sentiments, they are subjected to physical violence and taken away in an unknown direction", the general said.
He stressed that dozens of city residents did not return home after such actions, there is no information about their fate. The head of the NCUO also pointed out that such criminal actions of the Ukrainian authorities demonstrate the inhuman attitude of the regime in Kyiv towards its own citizens and complete disregard for international norms of humanitarian law.Pushilin sees no reason to delay the trial of the Ukrainian Nazis. In addition, Mizintsev added that the West is not interested in conducting an impartial investigation and searching for those responsible for the current catastrophic humanitarian situation in Ukraine, the United States and Europe actually «turn a blind eye» to Kyiv's numerous violations of international conventions, shifting blame without evidence on Russia. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The Russian army strikes only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and has already completed the main task of the first stage — it has significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.