Russian president Vladimir Putin's regime is using anti-terror laws to step up its repression at home and in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, reports Federico Fuentes.
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The claims are absurd, but accompanied by a huge propaganda drive aimed at linking Ukraine with terrorism, as well, possibly, an attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Vera Iastrebova, a Donetsk lawyer and labor movement activist, reported on social media on February 26 that mothers and wives in the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” were desperately seeking ways to protect their menfolk from compulsory mobilization in the now-unfolding war.
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