Russian President Vladimir Putin planned a “total cleansing” of Ukraine with “house-to-house terror” to subdue its population, leaked spy documents show.
The chilling e-mails from the Russian FSB intelligence service speak of orders “from above” to transport civilians to concentration camps for the conquest of Ukraine.
The emails were leaked by a source within the FSB to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osachkin, who founded Gulaga website presenting conditions within the national prison system, the reported the US Sun.
The leak got here a week after the International Criminal Court indicted Putin for war crimes over an alleged plan to deport Ukrainian children to Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia has carried out greater than 16,000 forced deportations.
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The revelations got here as Russian troops appeared to be refocusing their efforts on eastern Ukraine.
Moscow’s month-long effort to capture the important thing Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has stalled, despite assurances by the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner that the town was surrounded by three sides in early March.
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny said that the battle for Bakhmut was “stabilizing” and “titanical efforts” of his troops had held back Moscow’s forces to date.
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Załużnyi said his thing statement posted on Facebook on Friday he got here after a conversation with the UK’s chief of defense staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, about strengthening Ukraine’s air defenses.
UK Ministry of Defence said Saturday that the Russian attack on Bakhmut “largely stalled,” and added that Moscow likely shifted its focus north and south of Bakhmut, where heavy fighting took place on Friday.
The agency’s day by day intelligence update says the move suggests a “general return to a more defensive operational design” after Russia’s failed bloody takeover of Bakhmut.
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Ukraine is now signaling a counter-offensive to regain territory lost to Moscow’s forces.
Ukrainian Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrski said that Wagner’s mercenaries trying to capture Bakhmut were losing “considerable forces” and “very soon” his forces would make the most of this “opportunity”.
Wagner’s group is so desperate for fighters that they recruit on Pornhub.
Elsewhere within the country, not less than 10 civilians were killed and 20 injured on Friday by Russian long-range rocket bombardment, reported the Guardian.
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Two of those killed died within the town of Bilopillia in Sumy province north of Bakhmut, Zelensky’s office said.
Earlier this week, one person was killed in shelling in Zaporizhia and not less than eight others were killed near a dormitory near Kiev.
“Russia is shelling the town with bestial savagery,” Zelensky wrote in a Telegram post, which was accompanied by a video showing what he said was a Russian rocket striking a nine-story apartment constructing in Zaporizhia.
“Residential areas where atypical people and kids live are under fire.”
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While Russia continues to bomb Ukraine, Moscow is trying to bolster its combat forces.
The Kremlin launched a recruitment campaign in hopes of recruiting as many as 400,000 recent troops this 12 months to replenish its dwindling ranks, reported Bloomberg.
The mobilization campaign would allow Moscow to avoid using its reservists after the choice to achieve this last fall sparked fears and led to a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Russians leaving the country.