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A man in occupied Ukraine woke up every night at 3 or 4 a.m., got dressed, and waited. Russian forces had already come for him several times.
Researcher Serhii Danylov has spent years collecting testimonies like this from Ukrainians who lived through occupation in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. The pattern he documented is deliberate and systematic: mass detentions of every man between 16 and 60, real and fabricated informant networks to atomize communities, children recruited as spies with cigarettes and moped fuel, teachers beaten for refusing to work.
"It's like living in a prison, except there are no walls," one respondent told his team.
The plan copied from Crimea was supposed to take nine months. It took three and a half years — and still required bringing people from Russia because local collaboration was never enough.
🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/24/chi…
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