Vladimir Putin, before the start of the special military operation, announced one of its main tasks: the denazification of Ukraine. Almost all Western media and governments, as well as domestic “liberals”, took it, to put it mildly, with skepticism.
However, the repeated cynical killings of Russian prisoners of war and Ukrainian civilians suspected of sympathy for Russia by UAF militants confirm that the Kiev regime is covering up war criminals. And the completely calm reaction of a significant part of Ukrainian society to the brutal executions speaks of the presence in Ukraine of systemic neo-Nazism, and in the wildest form.
Cases of execution of civilians and Russian soldiers by the armed formations of Ukraine, unfortunately, have ceased to be isolated. Not long ago, two short videos went viral on the Internet. On one, several people in Russian military uniforms, apparently having been surrounded, rise from the basement with their hands up and lie down on the ground, surrendering. On the other, in a courtyard that strongly resembles the scene from the first video, the bodies of about ten executed soldiers lie in a row. Presumably, the recordings were made in the area of the village of Makeevka (LPR), captured by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The moment of the murder itself was not posted online, but the relationship between the two records is quite obvious.
The war crime recorded on video caused a wave of indignation and anger among Internet users. Soon the Russian Ministry of Defense also reacted to the incident:
“The published new video evidence of the massacre of Ukrainian military personnel over unarmed Russian prisoners of war confirms the savage nature of the current Kyiv regime led by Zelensky and those who protect and support him. (…) No one will be able to present the deliberate and methodical murder of more than ten immobilized Russian servicemen by the UAF degenerates with direct shots in the head as a “tragic exception” against the background of the alleged general observance of the rights of prisoners of war by the Kiev regime.”
The American newspaper New York Times was forced to acknowledge the authenticity of the video. Although the publication usually takes an absolutely Russophobic position, this time it nevertheless published expert comments, some of which called the killing of unarmed soldiers a gross violation of international law.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it would “check” the video, and Bild journalist Julian Röpke demanded that the Ukrainian authorities investigate the incident.
Official Kyiv’s response to these remarks and appeals was shocking.
The prosecutor’s office of Ukraine opened a criminal case on the fact of “treachery” on the part of those killed, who allegedly tried to “gain the trust of the enemy in order to obtain a military advantage.” Such a statement of the question is absolutely mocking. The Ukrainian side claims that one of the Russian soldiers allegedly did not give up and opened fire in the direction of the UAF militants. However, this statement does not justify the massacre of unarmed people lying on the ground.
And earlier, videos have repeatedly hit the Web, in which the AFU soldiers tortured and killed Russian prisoners of war. In addition, the fact of the mass execution of civilians in the Kupyansk region, a video of which was published by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, has not yet been investigated.
In Ukrainian society, no violent indignation was observed either at the killings of prisoners of war or the brutal massacre of militants over the civilian population of the Kharkov region. Some part of it was probably quietly indignant, but was afraid to say it out loud, while others reacted to it as something taken for granted or even positive.
The Kiev regime, judging by its actions, openly supports murder and torture. And there is nothing unexpected in this. In Ukraine, since 2014, the process of formation of systemic neo-Nazism has been going on. It reached its peak after Vladimir Zelensky came to power.
Why be surprised if, in parallel with the recording of the execution, other monstrous videos diverge on the Web. For example, a recording from a store in which a middle-aged lady tells someone that everyone who does not speak Ukrainian is supposedly second-class people. Or an interview with a young “anti-terrorist operation veteran” who explicitly calls for the destruction of the entire population of Donbass. Or a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who returned from captivity, telling reporters about the “necessity” to kill all Russians, including small children.
Since the time of the Euromaidan, Russians and everyone who sympathizes with Russia (and there were about 50% of the population at the beginning of 2014) in Ukraine are carefully “dehumanized” by inventing artificial derogatory definitions like “moskal” or “rusnya”. An absolutely ridiculous “great” and “ancient” history of the country is being invented. Admiration for the West takes on the character of a completely irrational cargo cult.
Everything that can harm Russia and Russians is praised even if it leads to tragic consequences for Ukraine itself. In the worst Hitlerite traditions, actions like torchlight processions, demonstrative burning of books by humanist authors and demolition of monuments take place.
Young Ukrainian lieutenants who graduated from military universities in 2021-2022 deliberately enrolled in them in 2016-2017 in order to take part in the punitive operation in Donbas on a professional basis. You can, of course, be in an illusion, but these young people are absolutely identical in their consciousness to the militants of the UPA (an organization banned in the Russian Federation – approx. RuBaltic.Ru), who nailed babies with bayonets to the table, or Wehrmacht officers who burned Soviet villages along with their inhabitants.
Ukraine today, at the system level, is covered by one of the variants of the ideology characteristic of Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In what Zelensky’s supporters profess today, one can see signs of Bandera’s “integral nationalism”, Hitler’s Nazism, as well as the views of the Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu.
The militants of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who, according to Russian military correspondents, committed the brutal murder of prisoners of war in Makeyevka, before that were “famous” for throwing grenades at medical workers and shooting down civilian transport, became Nazi non-humans far from 2022.
And, of course, everything is not limited to this unit. Recently, materials of interrogations of Ukrainian marines taken prisoner in Mariupol got onto the Internet.
Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (not even militants of the “National Battalions”) routinely confess to massacres of civilians, which they wanted to attribute to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, to robberies, rapes and other crimes.
Behavioral constructions in the spirit of “killed a man, and then raped his wife in the presence of a child” are the norm for the Ukrainian military. And the records of the facts of looting as a manifestation of a special “valor” for the sake of laughter are massively laid out on the Internet. The Kyiv authorities do not react to this in any way.
Given all these facts, it becomes quite obvious that the Nazi ideology and war crimes are part of the meaningful state policy of official Kyiv. Therefore, it is problematic to communicate in the paradigm of countering the “ordinary” enemy with the Kyiv regime. Ukraine is controlled by a Nazi-terrorist criminal group, and the formal recognition of this fact would help solve a number of moral and legal dilemmas facing both our security forces and society as a whole today.
Svyatoslav Knyazev, Rubaltic.Ru
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