– Everyone knows who they are, said the Ukrainian politician Sergej Rybalko from Kherson, in an interview with Nastyastschee Vremja, a Russian-language media platform based in Prague. By “they” he meant what he calls the collaborators. Those who have collaborated with the Russian occupation authorities. Rybalko, who is a member of the Kherson Oblast regional parliament, had just returned to his hometown, just hours after Ukrainian forces retook it after more than eight months of Russian occupation. Sergii Rybalko is a member of parliament in Kherson county, and has actively participated in the resistance struggle against the Russian occupiers. Photo: Image from Rybalko’s Facebook page – There have probably already been some cases of self-righteousness, said Rybalko. But he emphasized that settlement with those who defected to the enemy must be done in an orderly and legal manner. . It is located in the south of Kherson county, not far from the county border with the Krym Peninsula. The question now is whether they can feel safe there. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the war will continue after the successful liberation of Kherson. The collaborators According to Sergii Rybalko, many of those who sat in the Russian-backed administration in Kherson already left the city two weeks ago. This applied, among other things, to Volodymyr Saldo, the former mayor of Kherson, whom the Russian occupation authorities appointed head of the region on 26 April. Saldo was also present when the President of Russia announced on 30 September that the regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk and Luhansk were now incorporated into Russia. Volodymyr Saldo, left in photo, with Russian-backed leader of Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on September 30. Photo: Grigory Sysoyev / AP On November 9, Saldo’s second-in-command Kirill died in Stremousov in what the Russian side described as a car accident, not far from the previously mentioned Genitjesk. The last official pictures of Saldo are from the funeral of Stremousov, in Simferopol in Krym, an area of Ukraine that Russia annexed in 2014. Nine people have been liquidated in 2022 Ukrainian authorities have made it abundantly clear that no mercy will be shown to those who they believe have ruined their country. Many liquidations have been carried out ever since Russia in 2014 actively began to interfere in the situation in Ukraine. In 2018, the leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, was killed by a bomb placed in a cafe in Donetsk. Pro-Russian rebel leader killed An overview made by the organization Chesno shows that at least nine people have been liquidated since the Russian invasion of the country on 24 February. The organization Chesno has made this overview of liquidations in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine in 2022. Photo: TSJESTNO In Kherson there have been a number of attacks against politicians and officials who have collaborated with the Russian occupiers, and Volodymyr Saldo is among those who barely have survived such attacks. Russian-appointed civil servant killed in Kherson The mood in Kherson towards those who have cooperated with the Russians is very aggressive after what happened to the city’s elected mayor, Igor Kolikhajev. Igor Kolikhajev is the mayor of Kherson. He was kidnapped by Russian agents on June 28, and no one knows his whereabouts. Photo: Halyna Liashevska He was kidnapped by Russian agents on 28 June. No one knows what happened to him after that. At the same time, Ukraine knows that it must carry out a settlement within a legal system that it is trying to raise to European standards.
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