Putin is preparing reprisals in the occupied territories of Ukraine

The dictator accused Ukraine of threatening the civilian population in the occupied territories.

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, probably creates the conditions for repression in the occupied territories, under the guise of “threats of terrorism.”

At a meeting of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation on April 5, Putin called Russia’s efforts to strengthen control over the occupied territories of Ukraine “a matter of internal security and the rule of law.”

He called for the continuation of the economic, legal and social integration of the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions into the Russian Federation and emphasized the importance of Russian “restorative” efforts in the occupied territories to facilitate the integration process.

At the same time, Putin accused Ukraine of threatening the civilian population in the territories occupied by the Russian Federation and emphasized the recent “terrorist attacks” on occupation officials and “law enforcement agencies”, referring to attacks by Ukrainian partisans.

Putin used the concept of “terrorism” and threats to Russia’s internal security to justify repression inside the country and in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

In the captured Ukrainian territories, the occupiers created a network of at least 20 torture chambers. In particular, in Kherson. Ukrainian and international lawyers claim that such a torture network is part of a well-thought-out Russian strategy to destroy Ukrainian identity.