The “kill list” that Russia planned to use in case of taking over Ukraine included teachers, war veterans, journalists, priests, and other figures.
This was announced by the head of defense intelligence, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, during his speech at the forum “Genocidal practices of the Russian Federation in Ukraine: from the Holodomor to the Russo-Ukrainian war”
“The kill lists were to include teachers of the Ukrainian language, literature, history, veterans of the anti-terrorist operation, journalists, scholars, writers, priests from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and other confessions who supported Ukraine, public and political figures, heads of state-level and local government bodies.
We have seen terrible mass crimes against Ukrainian citizens, the facts of which have become known to the whole world. The atrocities of the Russian Armed Forces in Borodyanka, Bucha, Hostomel, Izium, Mariupol and many other settlements in Ukraine showed that these identical and synchronous actions were based on clear doctrinal provisions of the Russian genocidal policy of the authorities and military leadership,” Budanov said.
Also, according to Budanov, prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers had been briefed on where to set up mass graves.
Recall that in early February 2022, Bild wrote about the plans of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for Ukraine in the event of an invasion, one of the points of which was the destruction of the resistance movement and “concentration camps” for dissident Ukrainians. The Kremlin traditionally dismissed that report as “fiction and fake.”
