#yevgeny ananyevsky

[tomorrowusa]

There's now one less fewer Russian torturer terrorizing people in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Winter came for war criminal Yevgeny Ananyevsky – likely with help from Ukraine's Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR).

Not explicitly claiming its involvement in the operation, Ukrainian intelligence has announced the elimination of Yevgeny Ananyevsky, one of the organizers of torture chambers at Berdiansk Penal Colony No. 77 in the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Collaborationist officials and law enforcement officers have become priority targets for guerrillas in contact with Ukrainian security services. The primary aim of these operations, as described in a New York Times 2022 interview with partisans, is to warn rather than kill, emphasizing the consequences of cooperation with the Russian military. Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, there have been some two scores of largely successful assassination attempts on quisling officials and collaborators within law enforcement.

The owl is the symbol of the HUR, but their official mascot should be Arya Stark.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says that on 5 May 2024, around 9:40 a.m., Ananyevsky’s Ford Kuga vehicle exploded in occupied Berdiansk. The HUR confirmed that Ananyevsky, who held an occupation position at the penal colony and was involved in torturing Ukrainian prisoners there, was eliminated as a result of the explosion. The intelligence agency reminded that there would be “fair retribution for every war crime,” underscoring Ukraine’s resolve to hold Russian forces and their collaborators accountable for abuses committed during the ongoing invasion.

Nazi war criminals are still being prosecuted this decade. Russian war criminals, including their boss Vladimir Putin, should never be able to rest easy as long as they are at large. Somebody at The Hague should put a sign on a cell that says: RESERVED FOR V. PUTIN.

EDIT: Sometimes Berdyansk is transliterated as Berdiansk.