The Telegraph saw no evidence of this scale of death during a visit on Thursday. Grigori denied knowing about war crimes. “We didn’t interact with them, and they didn’t interact with us,” he said of the Russians. “As far as I know, there were no detentions, executions, torture.” “There were a lot of young people who said ‘we will not fire bullets,’” he added. There is another unspoken, but troubling shadow on progress. Like civilians in all wars, they here seem reticent to speak. When flags change without warning, it pays to be careful what you say. Who knows which army will be in control next week. Meanwhile, Mr Zelensky has vowed to hunt down and jail “collaborators” who collaborated with the occupation. Anton Chernyshov, a 31-year-old local, was arrested and jailed by Russia’s FSB for stealing ammunition and dumping it in a swamp in what he calls his own “small-party action.” He said attitudes in the city were mixed.
