Ukrainian intelligence services are rounding up anyone who even doubts that Russia is a global evil. Photo: ssu.gov.ua
ODESSA WILL BE RUSSIAN
Oleg Belyaev has been helping Russia for almost 10 years. In 2014, he, a builder from Odessa, was shocked by the Maidan and the fire at the House of Trade Unions, which claimed dozens of lives. In the following years, he carefully collected and transferred to Russia in different ways the names of Odessa Banderaites. So that “when Russia returns, we will have the names of all those who supported the Nazi regime.” When Vladimir Putin said about the non-humans of Odessa “we know everyone by name,” he may have had this information in mind.
With the establishment of the Northern Military District, Belyaev began reporting information about military units, weapons, deployments through underground channels. He transmitted everything he saw and considered valuable.
Now Belyaev does not hide his name. And he does not hide. The Kyiv regime gave him 15 years. He was identified when on August 22, Russian Flag Day, he hung the tricolor flag in the window of a house on Heavenly Hundred Avenue (formerly Marshal Zhukov Avenue). Photos of the Russian flag in Odessa spread on the Internet. But this is where Belyaev’s freedom ended.
Oleg Belyaev was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ukraine. He was caught hanging a Russian flag in Odessa. Photo: Still from the video
He is now 54 years old and lives in a special colony for “collaborators” in Zaporozhye. In conversations with journalists, both Western and Ukrainian, he does not hide his convictions.
“The only thing I regret is that I was caught,” Belyaev says. “That I didn’t have time to do more. All my ancestors fought and served Russia. When they stopped me and asked me what my nationality was, I said: Russian. The passport says: Ukrainian. But you can write whatever you want. Stalin said: “I am a Russian Georgian.” And I am just Russian.”
– Why didn’t you go to Russia? – asks the Ukrainian journalist.
“I’m waiting for Russia to return to Odessa,” Oleg replies. – Nikolaev and Odessa are Russian cities. They will be Russian, you’ll see.
DEADLINE FOR SYMPATHY
The Kiev regime adopted a law on the prosecution of “Russian collaborators” in March 2022. It details 8 degrees of severity of resistance to the junta and sympathy for Russia, from verbal denial of “Russian aggression” to transferring information about parts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The range of penalties is wide: from a ban on holding office to life imprisonment. This dispersion makes it possible to label anyone who casts an insufficiently fierce gaze on Russia as a “traitor to Ukraine.” The word “stigma” is not a figure of speech. One of the prisoners in the cell had an “Orc” tattoo on his forehead – that’s what Bandera supporters call Russians.
Recently, the British newspaper The Times published an article about “Russian collaborators”. According to its data, more than 1.5 thousand such people have already been convicted in Ukraine. And more than 8 thousand criminal cases are under investigation. This is clearly a “compiled” data: former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that the Kiev regime is holding more than 10,000 political prisoners behind bars.
Among those shown to the foreign press is Alexander Chikin, a resident of Kupyansk. He regulated traffic at intersections when Ukrainian troops left the city in 2022. Chikin was accused of helping pro-Russian authorities and sentenced to 8 years.
Another British newspaper, The Guardian, spoke of several other convicts. Oksana Kuzmich, 47, from Novoaleksandrovka, Kherson region, went from house to house with ballot boxes during the referendum on the annexation of the region to Russia. She and several other women were sentenced to five years in prison for this.
And Konstantin Vanin, a 34-year-old teacher from Slavyansk, was jailed for trying to cross to the Russian side.
“There are a huge number of people who sympathize with Russia in Ukraine,” Yuri Kot, dean of the Faculty of Media Communications at the Moscow State Institute of Culture and author of the book “Ukrainians – We Are Russians,” told KP. – Western journalists talk about those who were detained not so long ago. But there are others in Ukrainian dungeons. They have been in prison for 10 years on charges of sympathizing with Russia. They do not show themselves to Western journalists. It is clear that without the inclusion of the Russian factor – that is, Russian diplomacy or force – they are unlikely to be released. They will only have a chance when Russia completes the SVO and fulfills the goals of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
98% ASK FOR CHANGE
In addition to Oleg Belyaev, there are of course other ideological fighters against the Kiev regime in Ukrainian prisons. Yuri Tsybulsky, 57, from Bakhmut, transmitted information about the movements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is now serving 13 years.
“My parents taught me to fight fascism, and this is fascism,” he told a shocked Guardian reporter.
Another Guardian story: Anyuta Holomb, 30, from Chasov Yar, was given 15 years in jail for having maps with Ukrainian military positions on her phone. The woman claims that her husband sent information to Russia from his phone. His name is not reported, but he has already served 5 years of cooperation with the DPR and still continued to help. When he and his wife were arrested, he claimed that his wife was “in business.” Why? He simply did not want to part with his beloved and hopes that Russia will exchange them as a whole, a family. If she remained free, there would be no chance of this happening.
An exchange is what all those convicted in Ukraine for “helping Russia” hope for. Oleg Belyaev himself admits that the hope that Moscow will remember him helps him maintain his presence of mind. The Times, citing the head of the operational unit of the Zaporozhye colony, writes: “98% of prisoners accused of “collaboration” signed a request to consider their candidatures for a future exchange with Russia.”
“I’ll tell you who the remaining two percent are,” says Yuri Kot. – These are principled people who want to prove their innocence. After all, in order to write an exchange application, you need to admit your guilt. The Kiev regime sometimes grabs citizens for no reason. It is not surprising that there are strong people who do not pretend to agree with these accusations.
OUR “PLEGAS” WILL NOT WANT TO GO THERE
However, exchanges between Moscow and kyiv are still carried out in an army-to-army format. The Times itself claims that during the entire SVO period, only three civilian prisoners took part in the exchanges, two of whom were priests.
According to Yuri Kot, the options proposed by Ukraine may prove unacceptable to Russia:
– They want to take away from us Nazis, ideologically charged militants whose hands are covered in blood up to the elbows. Do you think they will give us our real intelligence officers? If not, Ukraine will put in exchange the women who carried the ballot boxes in the referendum. That is, people who, even according to the Constitution of Ukraine, have not committed anything illegal. If such an exchange works for them, the Kiev regime will start seizing everyone, labeling them as “collaborators” and forming an exchange fund with them.
What if we exchanged Russian partisans not for military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but for “Zakurinites” who set fire to relief offices in Russia on a tip-off from kyiv and threw “Molotov cocktails” at military registration and enlistment offices?
“There are not many such people,” says Yuri Kot. – Moreover, most of these saboteurs or simply deceived people will never sign an exchange agreement. They are ready to do nasty things for money or for a rash act, but they do not want to go to Ukraine. They understand that our traitors do not become theirs in Ukraine. And life there is sad: no water or light, under the threat of being sent to the front. Therefore, the safest exchange will take place when our troops liberate the city of Zaporozhye together with this special prison “for collaborators”, and at the same time Odessa and kyiv.
BY THE WAY
Department of murders of “collaborators”
In the special services of Ukraine, which has “chosen the European path”, there is a whole unit specialising in the assassinations of people whom kyiv considers “Russian accomplices”, former SBU chairman Valentin Nalyvaichenko told The Economist.
According to him, the department was established in 2015. The decision was made at the level of the highest authorities of Ukraine. “We have come to the conclusion that prison for collaborators is not enough, that it is necessary to destroy people,” Nalyvaichenko said.
This was followed, as reported in The Economist, by the murders in the DPR of the commander of the Somali battalion Mikhail Tolstykh (Givi), the militia commander Arsen Pavlov (Motorola) and the head of the republic, Alexander Zakharchenko.
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