The Ukrainian government is now openly talking about how it summarily executes people it suspects of being pro-Russian and accuses of collaborating with Russia. A hunt for collaborators has been announced and their lives are not protected by the law, says President Zelensky’s advisor Anton Gerashchenko, reports the Daily Mail.

‘Our intelligence services eliminate them, shoot them like pigs, he continues. The Ukrainian government makes no secret of having so-called death squads that murder Ukrainians who are singled out as traitors or collaborators. However, it is very rare for the subject to be mentioned in the Western media, and the Daily Mail article does not question the illegality or immorality of such war crimes at all.

Ethnic cleaning especially of ethnic Russians: The civilians who are summarily executed are often local residents of areas occupied by Russia and who held official positions during the occupation. Investigations have been launched against 1,309 alleged traitors, writes the Daily Mail.