"And let's get this collaborator." Kherson journalist told about the resistance movement in the occupied city

Journalist Konstantin Ryzhenko, who was in Kherson from the beginning of the occupation by the end of August, told how the local resistance movement helped fight Russian invaders and collaborators in the city. As Ryzhenko stated in an interview with HB, he was initially tried to get to the local administration of the SBU. However, knowing that there is a traitor among them, the journalist refused to cooperate with them.

Further, it came to the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, with which contact was established. Video of the Day "I doubted that they were. Then they tell me: what to do to prove that we are intelligence? I say, or Kim [Vitaliy Kim - the head of the Nikolaev regional military administration] or Senkevich [Alexander Senkevich - mayor of Nikolaev] will contact me and say that there are guys with such calls and password and then we will start working.

It passes two days and Senkevich is recruited from a video. Thus began communicating with GUR, ”Ryzhenko recalls. He handed over a detailed map to the Ukrainian intelligence, which indicated the location of Russian troops. “I dropped their map with what and where it is. They asked to add things that interest them. Then we made a friend, shadow map for the military.

We have systematized the places where the launch is visible, from where the air defense was being worked out where the military was based. This is a very detailed map, not like artillerymen, but it was Kherson's intelligence card, where it was visible what and where it was, ”Ryzhenko said. Subsequently, the journalist organized an OSINT team that was engaged in gathering information and open sources. “Our military says we need a square. We are looking for this square.

And then, and now I think it is very important to continue this digital reconnaissance resistance. Starting from the end of May, when the raids began on the houses, when the detention began, we have already started to hide strongly, ”Ryzhenko said. After that, he said, "they began to communicate little later" with the forces of special operations. “There were such people in Kherson: we do not understand anything on computers, but we can blow someone or shoot someone, give addresses and goals.

I'm talking GUR that there are such people, but not that they are very tested. But I see that the Russians are looking for them, they are most likely to be asked about our people. Gur decided to try. They gave one task, people completed it. They gave another, they also did, ”Ryzhenko says. After that, there were also elimination of collaborators. "And then there was such a moment: let's get this collaborator gather? First they gathered data, traced by a car.

They saw that a person is driving such a car, usually parks in such a place, goes at that time. Then, when they tracked even a route, the power block arranged "Cotton" [elimination of a collaborator]. It is not always successful, " - said Ryzhenko. After that, the journalist recalls, a large wave of searches in the city began, which sometimes ended in murder. " After every explosion or murder of repression and filtration measures They became stronger. They just staged atrocities.