Russia Planning To Stage ‘Public Execution’ In Ukraine To Break Morale: Report

Moscow’s Federal Security Service may also include cracking down on protestors as a part of its plan to shatter public morale, quoted Bloomberg as an anonymous European Intelligence Official said. 

A view of damaged building following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 3, 2022 | AFP

New Delhi: As the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its ninth day today, Russia claimed that it was planning public execution in Ukraine to shatter public morale, reports Bloomberg. 

Moscow’s Federal Security Service may also include cracking down on protestors as a part of its plan to shatter public morale, Bloomberg quoted a European Intelligence Official as saying. 

“The agency is also planning violent crowd control and repressive detention of protest organisers in order to break Ukrainian morale,” tweeted Kitty Donaldson who reported this story for Bloomberg. 

 

The agency is also planning violent crowd control and repressive detention of protest organisers in order to break Ukrainian morale

— Kitty Donaldson (@kitty_donaldson) March 3, 2022

On the ninth day of Russian invasion in Ukraine, Moscow launched an attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Power Plant. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy condemned the attack with strong words terming it as “nuclear terror.” 

He slammed Moscow for the attack and said “the terrorist country has reverted to nuclear terror.” The Ukrainian nuclear regulator, however, has said that no leaks of radiation have been detected at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, reported AFP.

READ HERE: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Dubs Russian Attack On Zaporizhzhia Power Plant ‘Nuclear Terror’

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian military was providing safe corridors for the civilians. Ukraine’s Presidential advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak,  had said that the two sides will together provide humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians and deliver food and medicine to the areas with the harshest battle. 

Meanwhile, on Thursday, 33 persons were reported dead while 18 were injured after Russia conducted airstrikes on the Chernihiv residential area in Ukraine, the State Emergency Service reported.

Earlier Moscow had launched an attack on a TV Tower in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv which killed 5 persons.