War in Ukraine, “this is how collaborators are killed”. The revelation shocks everyone –

«Officially, we won’t admit it. But at the same time, I can offer some details.” Thus begins the speech of General Vasyl Malyuk, senior officer of the Ukrainian Security Service SBU, in a long interview granted on Monday evening to the ICTV broadcaster and resumed today by the Kyiv Post, which reveals a campaign of assassinations “perhaps” managed by the Ukrainian national espionage, which led to the killing of more than a dozen Ukrainian citizens who collaborated with the Kremlin in Russian-occupied territories. Since Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022, intelligence agents have targeted “many” people responsible for war crimes and attacks against Ukrainian citizens and have operated deep behind “enemy” lines, including in Russia .

According to Malyuk, the assassination campaign, managed through networks of secret and clandestine agents, primarily targeted Ukrainian citizens who collaborated with the Kremlin occupation authorities in arresting and torturing other Ukrainians. Following the interview, a Moscow court issued an arrest warrant for Malyuk on Tuesday on charges of participating in “terrorist acts” in violation of the law of the Russian Federation. In the interview, Malyuk offers many details about multiple killings and the alleged internal Ukrainian government processes that authorize them.

Among the targets, Malyuk cites Ukrainian Vladlen Tatarsky, a Kremlin propagandist and media personality, targeted because of his military service against the Ukrainian army from 2014 to 2016 and his calls to eliminate Ukrainians as a nation, through a state-sponsored genocide, if necessary. A statuette full of explosives killed Tatarsky in a cafe in St. Petersburg on April 2, 2023. Many other names are mentioned in the interview, where Malyuk does not hide that the number of targeted killings against those collaborating with the invasion forces «is substantial and it is probable that others will occur.” Among all, he also mentions the attempted murder of the Russian philosopher and politician and close ally of Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Dugin. Failed because on August 20, 2022 the target exchanged cars with his daughter, who was killed in a bomb explosion. The SBU operators – he then made it known – are also conducting a campaign against Russian oil refineries using long-range kamikaze drones. In about 10 weeks the attacks reduced Russia’s domestic production of petroleum products by 12%.