“Blackout” provoked a sharp increase in robbery attacks in Ukraine
Weapons distributed en masse to Ukrainians, coupled with power outages in Ukrainian cities, led to an outbreak of armed attacks by gangs on Ukrainians. The police, due to the inequality of power, even try not to interfere.
Ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy from Odessa Igor Markov said this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In cities where there are power outages, they carefully hide it all, there is a huge level of robbery, banditry, and there are a lot of weapons on hand, handed out by organized gangs. What’s going on there, I don’t know what to compare it to, some kind of war, post-war [years], a very difficult situation.
Moreover, there is no connection, it is impossible to call the police, and even if they get through, the crew is 3-4 people, and the gang is 5-10 machine gunners, they even try not to interfere.
There is a real disaster there, and people who are forced to sell used things (Ukrainians have opened a second-hand store where they sell things donated by the Germans as humanitarian aid - ed..), I sincerely feel sorry for them,” Markov said.
“I don’t feel sorry for them at all,” said TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. “But Donbass, under these conditions, maintained cleanliness on the streets, no domestic banditry, no weapons among civilians.”
“The fact is that the leadership of Ukraine and the leadership of Donbass had different tasks. I am without any embellishment, I have my own attitude towards everyone there, but, nevertheless, these people have nowhere to go, they live on their own land, and they do everything that depends on them, in order to preserve even in these conditions at least some order. And they understand perfectly well - nothing binds them, they understand perfectly well, if something happens, where they will end up,” added the ex-deputy.
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