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Security Service of Ukraine (view source)
Revision as of 22:45, January 6, 2024
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On May 16, 2022, at 1:35 p.m. local time, the special services of Ukraine blew up a land mine reinforced with an overlay of up to 1 ton of ammonium nitrate in the area of Mazanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. As a result of the explosion, a poisonous cloud of about 1 kilometer headed towards the town of Kramatorsk which is under the control of Kyiv's forces. The doctrine of “total defense” proclaimed by Kyiv officials as noted by ''The Washington Post'' on March 28, 2022, supposes that any sacrifice, including the lives, health and safety of a large number of civilians, is nothing if the AFU actions may harm Russian soldiers, even if just potentially.<ref>https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-staged-another-provocation-with-chemicals-on-donbass-frontlines-videos/</ref>
On May 16, 2022, at 1:35 p.m. local time, the special services of Ukraine blew up a land mine reinforced with an overlay of up to 1 ton of ammonium nitrate in the area of Mazanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. As a result of the explosion, a poisonous cloud of about 1 kilometer headed towards the town of Kramatorsk which is under the control of Kyiv's forces. The doctrine of “total defense” proclaimed by Kyiv officials as noted by ''The Washington Post'' on March 28, 2022, supposes that any sacrifice, including the lives, health and safety of a large number of civilians, is nothing if the AFU actions may harm Russian soldiers, even if just potentially.<ref>https://southfront.org/ukrainian-forces-staged-another-provocation-with-chemicals-on-donbass-frontlines-videos/</ref>
==Arrest of dissidents and free speech advocates==
During the start of the [[special military operation]] of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in 2022, Chilean/American independent journalist and film maker [[Gonzalo Lira]] was in the Kyiv from where he expressed his assessment of what was happening on his [[YouTube]] channel. In particular, he said that, "although Ukraine may win the [[Ukrainian propaganda war|propaganda war]], Russia wins the real war by capturing territory. Already 15% of Ukraine's territory is under the control of the Russian army." This video was shown on a Russian television program of the ''Piervy Kanal'' channel without his authorization, which drew attention to him in nationalist circles in Kiev. A reward for his life was announced and death threats began to be received. Gonzalo Lira sought to return to [[Kharkiv]] with his family, which he achieved after being expelled from the ''Royal Grand'' hotel. He was critical of the government of [[Volodoymr Zelensky]] and the oligarch [[Íhor Kolomoiski]].<ref>{{cite web|title=What Russia wants from Its invasion of Ukraine-and why Zelensky is evil|url=https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/what-russia-wants-from-its-invasion-of-ukraine-and-why-zelensky-is-evil/|publisher=The Rio Times|date=1 March 2022|dateaccess=5 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Man goes on bizarre rant, claims 'evil' Ukraine Prez Zelenskiy handed out weapons to criminals|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/watch-video-man-goes-on-bizarre-rant-claims-evil-ukraine-prez-zelenskiy-handed-out-weapons-to-criminals|publisher=Free Press Journal|date=March 2, 2022|dateaccess=March 5, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Robberies, rapes happening in Ukraine after govt armed civilians to fight Russians: youTuber|url=https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2022/03/02/robberies-rapes-happening-in-ukraine-after-govt-weaponised-civilians-to-fight-russians-youtuber.html|editorial=The Week|date=March 2, 2022|dateaccess=March 5, 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Truth of the Zelensky regime.PNG|right|300px|thumb|After posting on March 26 a list of prominent people disappeared or murdered by the Zelensky regime,<ref>https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1507644195212824582</ref> Gonzalo Lira himself was disappeared from Kharkov.<ref>https://twitter.com/Anabel_Villeroy/status/1516131041672638464</ref>]]
Lira stated in a YouTube Live broadcast on March 26, 2022.
{{quotebox-float|"If ever you don't hear from me for 12 hours during this conflict, if it's 12 hours or more, assume that I've been picked up by the SBU. And assume that the people most responsible are [[the Daily Beast]], the ''Daily Beast'' who deliberately lied about me, claiming that I'm not in Kharkov, admitted to the fact that people are looking for me and want to get a hold of me in the very hit piece that they wrote, and that they contacted the [[Ukrainian]] government to make them aware that I'm in Kharkov, make them aware of my significance, make them aware so they can send some SBU goons to get me. Understand what the ''Daily Beast'' has done. And when I said, you know, in the in the title of this that the ''Daily Beast'' wants to kill me, I'm not being hyperbolic."<ref>https://youtu.be/sSkXojCqSQc</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/2NDeKJKXVAg</ref><ref>https://thesaker.is/gonzalo-lira-is-missing/</ref>}}
On April 17, 2022, George Galloway, former parliamentarian of the Great Britain Labor Party, announced on his television program MOATS that an interview with Gonzalo Lira scheduled for that audition could not be carried out due to his alleged disappearance in Ukraine. Friends and relatives of Lira confirmed that they had lost contact with him since April 15, a disappearance confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. Lira last wrote time on his Twitter account on April 15.
On April 22, 2022, Gonzalo appeared on a live on ''The Duran'', confirming he is alive, doesn't have access to his social media and he was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine. Lira was re-arrested in May 2023.<ref>https://youtu.be/4DmN8tGNlGU</ref>
After being rearrested in 2023 and released on bail, Lira was disappeared shortly thereafter by the SBU.
==Ukrainian mistreatment of POWs and war crimes==
==Ukrainian mistreatment of POWs and war crimes==