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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,026 posts)
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 07:10 PM Mar 2023

Putin Reportedly Plotted 'Total Cleansing' Of Ukraine

According to leaked documents, Russian President Vladimir Putin plotted a "total cleansing" of Ukraine with house-to-house terror and civilians marching to concentration camps.

Emails from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reveal orders "from the very top" to take Ukrainian citizens and march them to their deaths, the Sun reported on Saturday.

Putin allegedly wants to carry out the "total cleansing" so that Russia "could install any government in Kyiv." The emails also mention how Putin would deal with Ukrainian citizens who resisted Russian forces. Actions reportedly include reducing “massive protests down to local skirmishes, and to cause severe injuries to individual protesters,” and detaining people "in their homes at night during curfew" and transferring them "to Russian territories - concentration camps and worse."

Per the Sun, a source under the name "Wind of Change" leaked the emails from the FSB to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-reportedly-plotted-total-cleansing-of-ukraine-says-russia-will-place-nuclear-weapons-in-belarus/ar-AA196dxQ

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PortTack

(32,774 posts)
2. Plotting? He's managed to kidnap thousand adults and children. Ukraine knew from the beginning
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 07:19 PM
Mar 2023

If they didn’t fight they would cease to exist as Ukrainian. Only those that would be willing to take on a russian identity would survive. Even then that would be questionable

Irish_Dem

(47,131 posts)
4. Exactly. Putin is already doing a "cleansing."
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 07:45 PM
Mar 2023

Total destruction of Ukraine, the land, the people, the history and culture.

ColinC

(8,301 posts)
8. Weird how this article is framed in a way like we somehow stopped this from happening.
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 10:15 PM
Mar 2023

We very clearly did not. Perhaps we prevented it from happening on the same scale he wanted it, but hundreds of thousands -if not millions, have been kidnapped and murdered.

ColinC

(8,301 posts)
6. Why the past tense?
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 08:37 PM
Mar 2023

This is still obviously his goal. And something he has already done in some parts of Ukraine.

mitch96

(13,911 posts)
7. This is the Ruzzian M.O. for hundreds of years. Sweep in, either murder or relocate the
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 09:17 PM
Mar 2023

population. Then they re populate the area with ethnic ruzzians. Just saw a history vid on how in the early 19th century they did exactly that in what is now south of Volgograd between the Caspian sea and the black sea... They just wanted the dirt without the people. Like what they want to do in Ukraine.. This is a good channel if you like history...
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