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"Sipping his tea at one of the few cafes still open in the battered Ukrainian
frontline city of Kherson, Volodymyr Sagaydak shows a video of the day four
thugs from the Russian FSB security services arrived at the city’s main
orphanage, where he is a staff member. Kherson was liberated in November after
eight months of occupation, but is pounded every day and night by Russian
artillery from the visible left bank across a narrow stretch of the Dnieper
River.
We meet just a few days before the international criminal court issued warrants
for the arrest of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his
commissioner for children’s rights, for directly supervising the atrocity of
kidnapping Ukrainian children for “adoption” and “re-education” in Russia.
The armed Russians who arrived at the orphanage – two masked in camouflage, two
in black – were captured on CCTV; once inside, the camera shows one keeping
guard outside the room where records are kept, while the others go inside to
search through files. This was 4 June 2022, and the orphanage was by now empty
– thanks to a mixture of courage and ingenuity by the staff. But that was not
the end of the story."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
