It seemed obvious to me that some townspeople would have collaborated out of fear or the need to survive. (I could not reach any of the accused collaborators from Bilozerka or Volodymyr Saldo.) A researcher with a nonprofit government watchdog group in Bilozerka, Zelinska investigated Kozlyonkova for misusing state funds before the war. As far as I could determine, none of the accused collaborators had. The administrators of the partisan forums clearly wanted to raise suspicion — to let accused collaborators know that they were being monitored, too.

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Persons: Bilozerkans, Putin, Anatoliy Korniev, John of Kronstadt, Korniev, weren’t, Oleksandr Guz, he’d, Volodymyr Saldo, Alyona Zelinska, Zelinska, Kozlyonkova, ”, ” Kozlyonkova, Andriy Koshelev, Koshelev, Oleksandr Shcherbyna, ” Shcherbyna, “, Andriy Dibrova, Alina, Bilozerka Organizations: Russian Orthodox Church, Telegram Locations: Soviet, NATO, St, Russia, Bilozerka, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Kherson