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Apr 18 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
If @realGonzaloLira has indeed been disappeared by Ukraine's SBU, he joins a long list of dissidents, leftists, human rights activists, and local officials kidnapped, tortured and even assassinated by Zelensky's death squads – and with Kiev's open support thegrayzone.com/2022/04/17/tra…
Vladimir Strok, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kreminna, was assassinated by an SBU death squad for urging negotiations with Russia.

@Gerashchenko_en, the advisor to Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs, celebrated Strok's murder, writing, "There is one less traitor..."
Officials across Ukraine have been terrorized by the CIA-trained SBU security service

Gennady Matsegora, mayor of Kupyansk, released this video appealing to Zelensky for the release of his daughter, who was kidnapped and is held hostage by agents of the Ukraine's SBU
Under Zelensky's watch, Ukraine's SBU has partnered with neo-Nazis from Azov and C14 to hunt down left-wing activists

This is from video posted by Azov members during the SBU's torture & kidnapping of leftist Alexander Matjuschenko in Dnipro – targeted for his political views
Before @realGonzaloLira disappeared from Twitter – and possibly from everyday life – he tweeted about SBU agents kidnapping Kharkov-based disabled activist Oleg Novikov for "pro-Russian views" – one among scores of activists arrested under Zelensky's watch
Zelensky has also authorized the re-arrest of his main political rival, Viktor Medvedchuk, the founder of Ukraine's second most popular party, charged w/"treason."
The US State Dept openly supported Zelensky banning Medvedchuk's media outlets last year.
As @dancohen3000 reported, exiled Ukrainian opposition figure @anatoliisharii said he faced a recent SBU assassination attempt after his friend was kidnapped.

Shariy's party was among 13 opposition parties outlawed by Zelensky under martial law. mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zele…
Inside Kiev and other Ukrainian cities, "territorial defenders" tasked with enforcing law and order have publicly tortured Roma people as well as those accused of Russian sympathies or looting.

Grisly images like these turn up every day.
US liberals fly Ukraine's flag on their lawns and imagine a plucky country fighting for democracy. But Ukraine's reality was summed up by a leftist tortured by the SBU: “The war is being used to kidnap, imprison and even kill opposition members who express criticism of the govt."

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