Violence
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

Abstract Violence was the most important pillar of the Russian occupation. This chapter explains how the Russian authorities used detentions, torture and extrajudicial killings against potential opponents. Ukrainian military veterans, government officials, journalists and religious leaders were at particular risk, and many ended up in prisons in Crimea and in Russia. The Russian security services oversaw a mass program of “filtration” to collect data on the entire population and to target any po