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Sinking to the depths of total human depravity, Russian pundits appearing on state-run media outlets are calling for public executions in Ukraine.
U.K. political editor for Bloomberg News, Kitty Donaldson, confirmed “Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, has drafted plans for public executions in Ukraine after cities are captured.”
A European intelligence official reported this information to Donaldson. Take a look:
NEW: Russia's intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, has drafted plans for public executions in #Ukraine after cities are captured, per a European intelligence official
— Kitty Donaldson (@kitty_donaldson) March 3, 2022
During a broadcast on Russia-1, a state-owned Russian television channel, one pundit advocated for public hangings.
The so-called “journalist” recited the same reasons pushed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as an attempt to justify the executions, including the claim that the Ukrainian people must be liberated from the Ukrainian government run by neo-Nazis.
“I would restore the death penalty by hanging through military tribunal,” the pundit, speaking Russian, said, according to a translated quote by Newsweek.
“There are people in Ukraine who threaten Russian citizens and create a threat for us. … In my view, this is of utmost importance.” Here’s the clip:
Pundits on Russian state TV advocate implementing public hangings in Ukraine once Russia's dominance is established. If you speak Russian, here is one example (watch). Other pundits later agreed, one of them noting that DPR/LPR constitution conveniently permits the death penalty. pic.twitter.com/zCe3PfFhVM
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 13, 2022
More on this story via Fox News:
According to The Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis, who shared the clip of the Russian broadcast to Twitter on Sunday, other pundits later agreed with the idea of hanging dissidents, and one noted constitutions for the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) permit the death penalty.
With discussions about the death penalty, potential hangings & not letting morality stand in the way, Russian state TV is obviously working to desensitize the public for the upcoming atrocities in Ukraine. Case in point, this clip from Sunday's show (warning: sensitive content). pic.twitter.com/luUYpZd5zE
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 14, 2022
Before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin recognized two Moscow-allegiant breakaways in the Donbas and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine as independent republics.
Kherson Regional Council member Sergey Khlan warned on Facebook on Saturday that occupying Russian troops were laying plans to establish a Moscow-allegiant Kherson People’s Republic, but he and other council members were refusing to cooperate. Kherson, a city of strategic importance due to its posts and access to the Black Sea, was the first major Ukrainian city to fall on March 2.
Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba warned on Sunday that Ukrainian mayors had been captured as Russian occupying troops are targeting democratically elected Ukrainian politicians.
— Advertisement — Kuleba said Russian “war criminals” abducted Yevhen Matveyev, mayor of Dniprorudne, a city in the Vasylivka Raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The announcement came a day it was revealed that Ivan Fedorov, mayor of the nearby city of Melitopol, was abducted on March 11.
