On December 4, photos of allegedly hanged people in the Luhansk region appeared on pro-Russian Telegram channels. Bellingcat journalist Khristo Grozev drew attention to the photo.
On the chest of the men there are signs with the inscriptions "traitor of the Lugansk people" and "he passed information to the enemy smersh."
Initially, the photos of the hanged were posted on his Telegram channel by the founder of the "Men's State" Vladislav Pozdnyakov.
"Luhansk region. Collaborators are reportedly hanging because of cooperation with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ”Pozdnyakov signed the pictures.
Later, the photos began to be distributed by channels associated with the Rusich nationalist battalion. In one of these channels, it was written that the photo was taken by the Ukrainian side.
“Personnel from the Lugansk region. This is how they treated the accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who handed over the locations of units of our army, ” writes the Telegram channel“ PE Lugansk News of the LPR ”.
There is no information about where, by whom and when the pictures were taken, and who is imprinted on them. The head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Serhiy Gaidai, said that a check was being carried out on the published photographs.