The town of Sergei Zhadan, Starobelsk, Lugansk region, is now occupied by Russian troops.
Ukrainian writer, frontman of the group Zhadan and Sobaki Sergey Zhadan spoke about the situation in his hometown of Starobelsk, Lugansk region, and about a classmate captured by the so-called “LNR”.
“The situation in Starobilsk is bad now, work, people have a lot of problems. Communication, of course, is somewhat interrupted, because they monitor who is talking to whom, they arrest people suspected of loyalty to Ukraine. One of my classmates disappeared. One of my classmates, who was in the military after 2014, was sentenced by the People’s Court of the so-called LNR to 12 years. There is nothing good in that. He was taken as an officer of the ATO, “said Zhadan on Pryam Chervona’s YouTube channel.
At the same time, according to the writer, Starobilsk has always been a pro-Ukrainian city.
Starobelsk has been occupied since March 2022. On March 6, residents of Starobilsk took to the streets against the occupation, lowered the flag of the so-called “LPR” and raised the Ukrainian state flag. According to local residents, during the pro-Ukrainian rally, the invaders tried to scare people and fired into the air.
The Security Service of Ukraine is investigating the facts of state treason by Starobilsk police officers, who, during the war, betrayed the oath and went to the side of the enemy. It was established that the three local police officers voluntarily joined the ranks of the so-called “Starobelsk Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR.”
In April, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in Starobelsk, the so-called occupational “authority” used representatives of public utilities to house military personnel of the Russian occupation forces in apartments and houses which was temporarily abandoned by the citizens of Ukraine. Cases of civilians evacuating in unknown directions without explanation after selective checks on mobile phones have become more frequent.
Recall that Zhadan shared his views on the importance of the language issue in Ukrainians’ understanding of the world.
Earlier, Zhadan criticized Ukrainian songs about the war.
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Source: korrespondent
