Posted on 07/13/2022 2:01:35 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russia is surveilling the families of soldiers killed while fighting Vladimir Putin's war, in case they voice public opposition to the ongoing conflict, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.
In a report published on Sunday, Ukraine's military intelligence directorate said Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) for the western Kostroma region put in a request to monitor certain individuals who may be "prone to committing crimes" under stringent new laws that crack down on dissent.
The FSB, Kremlin's principal security agency, asked the head of the Vohomsk municipal district to provide background information on persons who may violate laws on "public dissemination of false information and actions to discredit the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and their participation in aggression against Ukraine," according to the report by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.
Russia's parliament in March passed legislation imposing a jail term of up to 15 years for intentionally spreading "fake" news about Russia's army. The Kremlin has used the law to crack down on those who veer from Putin's narrative of the war.
"When collecting such information, special attention is paid to close relatives of servicemen who died on the territory of Ukraine or participated in the war," Ukraine's military intelligence directorate said.
On Friday, Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov became the first person to receive a long-term sentence under the new laws. The 60-year-old was sentenced by a court in Russia's capital to seven years in a penal colony for criticizing what Putin calls a "special military operation." He was also banned from holding public office for four years after his release.
And in June, Russian politician and former candidate for the State Duma Mikhail Lobanov was detained for 15 days for "discrediting" the country's military on his social media networks.
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Hmmm, sounds sorta like what they do in the US.
Newsweek has embedded journalists in FSB headquarters?
How many years will they get, for telling the truth?
1) The Ukrainian CIA says something
2) MSM prints it
PROPAGANDA
As the narrative continues on.
Not sure what’s worse, the propaganda itself or those that willingly peddle in and pass it around.
They are even reduced to posting Ukranian agit-prop from NPR.
I bet too many on here will believe this.
Believe what? Putin jails his political enemies?
The Russia people have NO IDEA how many soldiers have been lost in Ukraine. If you ask someone on the street, they'd say "1,000? 1,500?"
If Putin is such a great guy, and the Invasion is totally worth the cost, why isn't he being honest with the Russian Public?
The Russian people don't need to know how many Russian kids are being killed?
We would have stormed the WH and drug George Bush out of it, it he had done this in Iraq and Russian Losses are 10X ours in Iraq and "The Insurgency" hasn't really even started, yet.
Believe what? Putin jails his political enemies?
The Russia people have NO IDEA how many soldiers have been lost in Ukraine. If you ask someone on the street, they'd say "1,000? 1,500?"
If Putin is such a great guy, and the Invasion is totally worth the cost, why isn't he being honest with the Russian Public?
The Russian people don't need to know how many Russian kids are being killed?
We would have stormed the WH and drug George Bush out of it, it he had done this in Iraq and Russian Losses are 10X ours in Iraq and "The Insurgency" hasn't really even started, yet.
NewsWEAK doesn’t need to be put under surveillance.
I already know it is a leftwing rag.
I’d say Ukraine is likely doing the same, but there simply isn’t enough people left to watch the families of all the people the Neocons had killed there.
Looking back, was it the right choice to go in to Iraq and Afghanistan at all?
And how many is Ukraine losing? Probably more than a few thousand.
Ukraine doesn’t have any intelligence. It’s run by the west.
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