Ukrainians in occupied territories who refuse Russian passports face threats, intimidation and possible detention or deportation, Yale study says
Oh no Putler bad!
Unironically yes, Putin is like Hitler in some notable ways and is in fact very bad.
Apparently, lots of users here love him.
Wonder if those groups are organic but misled or crafted by China and Russia agencies.
I’ve read a couple of times that Russia should be supported because USA/NATO attacks countries and stages coups in Latin America for example.
Sure, everyone should be critical of the USA but we can also have a nuanced view.
A thought experiment: What if the USA (Russia) were to invade Mexico (Ukraine)? Should Latin America (Europe) support Mexico (Ukraine) from the invasion?
The same can be applied to other continents. China & Taiwan. Turkey & Greece. Etc
Holy shit, imagine defending genocide purely because of who’s committing it. Take a good look at yourself, mate. Fucking shameful.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory are being forced to assume Russian citizenship or face retaliation, including possible deportation or detention, a new US report has said.
Yale University researchers found that residents of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were being targeted by a systematic effort to strip them of Ukrainian identity.
Russian prime minister Mikhail Mishustin said in May that Moscow had given passports to almost 1.5 million people living in parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions seized since October last year.
“This number has grown since then, with leaders of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) claiming that three-quarters of residents of that oblast [region] had received Russian citizenship,” the report said.
The report included a timeline of increasingly aggressive measures to pressure or force Ukrainians to become Russian citizens, starting in May 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Of course they are. Citizens can be conscripted.
Well if the largest purveyor of violence on the international stage tells us stuff about a smaller purveyor of violence on the international stage, it must be true, right?