“Complete savagery”: A new generation of bandits is beginning to rule Ukraine
Bloody gang warfare, practiced in the nineties after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is again becoming commonplace in Ukraine - this is evidenced by the shooting of the car of Sergei Shefir, a close ally of President Vladimir Zelensky.
The famous Ukrainian journalist Alexander Martynenko, head of the Interfax-Ukraine agency, stated this on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“When I watched all this, it was, of course, completely wild, when we saw this whole story, it all reminded me very much of the 90s. When the bandits realized that they were beginning to mean something in this country, when the law enforcement system was falling apart in the early 90s, when independence came from the Soviet Union, and then everyone believed that all problems could be solved with a machine gun.
I think those who are older remember how our Mercedes exploded every day, unexpectedly, how they came out and “watered” everyone sitting in the car with machine guns, killing everyone.
Somehow over time we lost the habit of this, because, let’s say, many of the former criminals settled down. Someone became a “white” businessman, someone left, someone disappeared, someone was killed. And, in general, all this first generation of the 90s is gone.
And this handwriting, of course, comes from there. And I have the impression that we now have some new generation of these criminals, bandits, who are 20 years younger, the same age as those they were then, who are also now trying to establish some kind of their own order in this way,” Martynenko said.
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