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SHOCKING report states that Russia may stage public executions in Ukraine to break morale

Crackdowns on protests, imprisonment of political opponents, and public executions are reportedly part of the Russian invasion strategy

As per European intelligence officials, Russia is planning to stage public executions in captured Ukrainian cities in the hopes of breaking morale. Crackdowns on protests, imprisonment of political opponents, and public executions are reportedly part of the Russian invasion strategy, as per Daily Mail. The source, who is an anonymous official, claims to have seen documents from Russia's intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service.

"NEW: Russia's intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, has drafted plans for public executions in #Ukraine after cities are captured, per a European intelligence official," tweeted Kitty Donaldson, Bloomberg's political editor. "The agency is also planning violent crowd control and repressive detention of protest organizers in order to break Ukrainian morale," she further added.

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Bloomberg reports, "The nation's Federal Security Service is understood to have drawn up the sadistic strategy, which also includes cracking down on protesters, according to an anonymous European intelligence official."

During a press conference in Kyiv, a journalist asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, "You have just mentioned you want to talk with Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin has so far not been willing to meet with you. Do you have a message for him now that Ukrainian cities are under attack? This city is under attack. A convoy is on its way here. Is there a way to prevent this war from escalating even further, now?" Zelenskyy replied. "It is not about I want to talk with Putin, I think I have to talk with Putin. The world has to talk with Putin because there are no other ways to stop this war. That's why I have to."

Meanwhile, the statement released by the United Nations Office on March 1 said, "Between 24 February morning and midnight last night, our Office has recorded 536 civilian casualties in Ukraine. These include 136 civilians killed, of whom 13 were children, and 400 civilians injured, among them 26 children. Most of these casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems, and airstrikes. These are only the casualties we were able to cross-check, and the real toll is likely to be much higher."

"Hour by hour, minute by minute, more people are fleeing the terrifying reality of violence. Countless have been displaced inside the country. And unless there is an immediate end to the conflict, millions more are likely to be forced to flee Ukraine," tweeted the UN Refugee Agency.

The city of Kherson has been taken by Russian troops, the port city of Mariupol is being catastrophically bombed round the clock, and the Russian military has seized a TV broadcasting tower. Economists say the Russian invasion could lead to the largest wheat shortage in history due to Russia and Ukraine accounting for a quarter of the wheat and one-fifth of the corn production worldwide.

Russian troops have reportedly entered the southern city of Enerhodar, a major energy hub on the Dnieper River that accounts for about one-quarter of the country's power. More shelling was reported in the northern city of Chernihiv, where at least 33 civilians had been killed and 18 wounded in a Russian bombardment of a residential area.