A Ukrainian youth kidnapped by the FSB in Belarus is, of course, a new page in Russian-Ukrainian relations. If what is happening between the two countries in recent years can be called relations. In fact, this is not a relationship. This is war. And in this hybrid war, hostage-taking takes place.
Kidnapped is quite suitable for the role of another hostage. The son of a Ukrainian officer, did not hide his views in social networks. You can declare another Ukrainian terrorist, and you can bargain - and in exchange for the release of a young man to get a real terrorist, dear to his Lubyanka curators.
Why the abduction took place on the territory of Belarus is also understandable. After a series of arrests of Ukrainian citizens, trips to Russia, of course, did not stop. But far less often those who are connected with the Ukrainian security structures or have pro-Ukrainian views, and even advertise them. To detain an ordinary guest worker you can, but without an impressive history it will be unconvincing. Russian justice and Russian propaganda need myths: they fought in Chechnya, killed "militiamen" or simply a relative of the Ukrainian military, which means that a terrorist. And such people are being systematically searched for. After the kidnapped in Belarus Pavel Grib was lured to Belarus - that means, they followed his accounts in social networks, searched for vulnerable places, thought about how to force to cross the Ukrainian border. Obviously, in this development there is not one Paul - he just got caught. Catching "on a girl" - a classic reception of special services.
Why they were lured out to Belarus, it is also clear. In the eyes of an ordinary Ukrainian citizen who is not very versed in political intricacies and arrangements, Belarus is not Russia. Another country. That there is practically no border between Russia and Belarus, that Russian special services feel at home in the neighboring country and organically merge with Belarusian ones - of course, when it is not about Lukashenka's personal interests,.
Not to mention the fact that we are talking about a 19-year-old boy who grew up in a free country. In a country where political views are one thing, and personal life and security are quite different. Where you can expose power and not be afraid of the consequences. Of course, there was the era of Yanukovych with her bandit "morality", but even then the authorities were afraid to go all the way to the very end of the Maidan. And in the life of Paul Grib, Yanukovych's time ended when he was only 16 years old. His formation was already in the normal world. In the same normal world that his Russian and Belarusian peers who live in the atmosphere of the usual Soviet internal self-control are deprived: they say, I also do not like everything, but why should I shout about it.
And it is not accidental that those 16-year-olds who went to the rallies of Navalny, adult uncles and aunts looked with sincere bewilderment. These children both from another planet, almost from Ukraine.
Paul Grib paid for this "alien". And for my father, of course. Son for father answers - we learned it from Stalin's times. And it seems that since those times on the Lubyanka nothing has changed. Theft of a man remains valor, the search for hostages is the only way to free his own criminals, the lie is the only evidence of rightness.
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