Thread by @kherradio

11 Mar 2022, #Kherson #Ukraine, Ostriv district: Russians are canvassing the residential areas and arrest the locals related to SBU/Police/TerDef/volunteers.
Where they are failing in making a blockaded Leningrad out of Kherson, they have started making a concentration camp.

Looks like Muscovites intend to coerce #Kherson into collaboration by detaining activists and anyone who could mount any resistance. Whether they succeed is dependent on the length of time their occupation takes.

What can be seen from eyewitnesses: apparently, these are FSB/Rosgvardiya troops (judging by black kevlar vests):

another one: literally Gestapo, trying to fish people out of their homes

О.Х., a Khersonian, 11.03.2022: "A Russian paddy wagon stopped by a queue at the shop. Several Russian Rosgvardiya troops assaulted a yound man and dragged him away. The queue, mostly elders and women, failed to get him back. The only other young man around managed to escape."

To clear: we in #Kherson appreciate that Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kyiv region are having it MUCH worse, with shellings and civ deaths. We do NOT urge anyone to "save us now". We Southrons are fighters even if we are cornered.

Just fuck'em proper, folks. For us.

Importantly, the Russians have NOT lifted the total blockade of #Kherson as of 11 Mar 2022. So the only relatively successful pincer movement they are doing in Ukraine is 1) to starve Kherson into submission and 2) to mow down any dissent by arresting the activists, Gestapo-style

Updates from our contacts throughout #Kherson as of 18:43, 11 Mar: more forced break-ins & arrests by Ru are reported, including in Ostriv District and Dniprovskyi district.

In addition to SBU/police/terr defence members, family members of active army personnel are bng arrested