FSB launches hunt for fugitives from Ukraine: Russians write denunciations against 'saboteurs'

The attempted assassination of the occupier Zakhar Prilepin and daily sabotage have made Russians panic - they hate the "newly arrived Kh*khols" and are writing denunciations. In those regions of the Russian Federation where "refugees" from Ukraine have been accommodated, regional FSB units have begun to "work out" them - there are already detainees.

Read more about the situation in OBOZREVATEL's article.

Saboteurs are everywhere

The situation in the Russian Federation now resembles a disturbed beehive: not so long ago, the Russians were counting on capturing the whole of Ukraine, but now the war has come to their home.

Every day, "incidents" take place in different regions of the Russian Federation, not only in the border regions of Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk. Saboteurs blow up and set fire to railway tracks and equipment, various energy and military facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defence. FSB buildings are also affected. This, along with drone attacks, has already caused mass psychosis in Russia.

The attempted assassination of Zakhar Prilepin, a writer and deputy commander of a Rosgvardia battalion, whose car was blown up in the Nizhny Novgorod region, added to the fire. The perpetrator was identified as Alexei Permyakov, a resident of the occupied part of Donetsk region who had previously fought on the side of the 'DPR'. Russia also mentioned the allegations of the security forces that a resident of Mariupol, Natalia Vovk, was allegedly involved in the murder of Daria Dugina.

All of this, as they say, added up to a picture and caused a new wave of hatred among Russians - this time towards so-called refugees. Or rather, fugitives from Ukraine.

Pro-Russian citizens of Ukraine, following Putin's decrees on simplified Russian citizenship, took advantage of this "chance" and moved to the territory of the aggressor country. Most of them are residents of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions with Russian roots, where fierce fighting and shelling are currently taking place.

Russians are particularly angry with the residents of Kherson, who are entitled to free housing in Russia by Putin's decision. There are a lot of angry comments on social media about "injustice": "why do refugees get apartments, while we live in sh*t all our lives?"

Envy of those who have become "rich" and fear of sabotage have prompted Russians to denounce: the number of calls to the police is growing daily, and calls to the FSB's "hotlines" are also increasing.

According to OBOZREVATEL's source in occupied Mariupol, Russia recently detained three former residents of Donetsk Oblast suspected of preparing sabotage.

Apparently, the Russian secret service saw the situation as a new opportunity to earn points - to raise the statistics on caught saboteurs and spies. It doesn't matter that they are fake, as long as they can report on "effective work". And the FSB has long been a regular practice of falsifying cases, and it doesn't hesitate to do so.

If you come to Russia, you are a spy

A Crimean Tatar woman, a citizen of Ukraine, Leniye Umerova, became a victim of the FSB. She was detained on the Russian-Georgian border on the night of 3 to 4 December 2022, when she was travelling on a bus from Tbilisi to Simferopol. The girl did not flee to Russia, she was only trying to get from Kyiv to Crimea to care for her father with cancer.

After her detention, a report was drawn up against Leniye for violating the rules of border crossing, the court fined her 2,000 rubles and ordered her expulsion from Russia. Until mid-March, the Ukrainian woman was held in the Centre for the Temporary Detention of Foreign Citizens near Vladikavkaz. The decision to expel her was later overturned on appeal and she was released, but immediately afterwards she was detained by four plainclothes men who put a bag over her head.

Since then, she has been held several times in administrative detention in Vladikavkaz under the article on disobedience to security forces. The day before Leniye was sent to the detention centre, her parents arrived in Vladikavkaz, but Russian security forces told them that she and her belongings had been taken away by the FSB.

On May 5, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow sent Umerova to a pre-trial detention centre in a case of espionage, which is a particularly serious crime that can result in up to 20 years in prison.