Posted on 06/15/2022 10:44:18 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s office said the mayor of Sviatohirsk, Volodymyr Bandura, is being investigated for suspicions of treason committed under martial law.
On Tuesday Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s office said the mayor is under investigation for “moving to the side of the enemy” and spreading through the media “an appeal in which he promoted the ideas of the Russian world.” Russian forces recently captured Sviatohirsk. CNN was unable to reach Bandura directly.
In an announcement on the website of Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor accused Bandura of agreeing to the proposal by the Russian Federation to take a position to head the temporarily occupied Sviatohirsk.
On Monday the leader of the so-pro-Russian, self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine claimed Bandura had joined the DPR.
“We have been in touch with him for a long time, he was waiting, like many residents of Sviatohirsk, for liberation and he supports a special military operation,” Denis Pushilin said in a post on Telegram.
Pushilin posted a photo of himself meeting with the mayor.
Sviatohirsk, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, is the site of a prominent monastery that sustained damage in recent weeks during Russia’s advance. It lies on the Siverskyi Donets river, and is a key prize in Russia’s advance toward Sloviansk, to the south.
“For obvious reasons he had to hide his position — the task was to keep people safe,” Pushilin said of Bandura on Telegram.
“At a difficult time, Volodymyr did not leave his post, he is respected and supported by the residents, so I offered him the position of the head of Sviatohirsk city administration,” Pushilin said.
He said that the monastery, or Sviatohirsk Lavra, was intact but “needs repairs.”
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This was the largest wooden church in Ukraine, but built in modern times. It was not part of the main Svyatogorsk monastery area and was not visited by many.
This was separate from the hit on one of the main monastery buildings that killed several Monks/nuns.
Smart man.
Burning churches, salting the earth. That will win people over.
Some of the French switched sides to support the Nazi’s too.
Better Red than Dead
If the partisans don’t get him, he will hang for collaboration.
Which is why Russia cannot withdraw from the liberated Republics but will
have to provide security
There would be genocidal retaliation by the Ukes
Bucha on steroids
The mayors wouldn’t “ collaborate” unless these towns were in popular support
The story behind the story
This church evidently sat on high ground
The Ukes wanted to set up a firing position inside
The priests and locals protested and resisted
When the Ukes were forced to retreat they burned the church in retaliation
Then blamed the Russians
Some Republicans support Biden and his war
Conquered, not “liberated”. There is widespread resistance in occupied Ukraine. Not enough to drive out the invaders, but enough to harass them and make the occupiers lives miserable.
I believe the “ popular resistance” to what eastern Ukraine has endured from Ukrainian security forces since 2014 is not so widespread, and has only been reinforced since Feb. They are never going back to Kiev govt criminalizing their ethnic ties, being shelled by UKA, and being terrorised by the SBU and right wing thugs.
The UKA itself is getting a heavy dose of Z’s military leadership and his “ barrier units’ formed to execute entire units that try to retreat or surrender when out of weapons and out of options
Those 8,000 or so Uke POWs will probably find new lives in the DPR or LPR or face execution
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