TheNZThrower
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Hi everyone! There have been allegations that the Ukrainian Government has armed criminals who are now looting, raping and causing violence in the cities according to the various links provided by this article. The first set of allegations comes from this Twitter thread by a Clint Ehrlich, who is a former visiting researcher at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations per his Twitter profile (no bias there for sure). His main pieces of evidence alleging such claims first comes from a video documenting civilians being armed, while claiming that they're being given it without any documents required from the civilians:
His second piece of evidence comes from another video where gunshots can be heard in a place claimed to be part of Kyiv:
The rest are mostly unconfirmed allegations at this point.
Some other sources are this video showing citizens looting a store (who are claimed to be armed) in what is claimed to be in Ukraine:
Though the writing in the video is Russian (which could be explained by it occurring in a Russian speaking city in Ukraine).
There are more sources in the linked article, but this is as far as it goes for now.
His second piece of evidence comes from another video where gunshots can be heard in a place claimed to be part of Kyiv:
The rest are mostly unconfirmed allegations at this point.
Some other sources are this video showing citizens looting a store (who are claimed to be armed) in what is claimed to be in Ukraine:
Though the writing in the video is Russian (which could be explained by it occurring in a Russian speaking city in Ukraine).
There are more sources in the linked article, but this is as far as it goes for now.