At least a dozen Russian soldiers have reportedly died and another 30 are said to have been hospitalised after eating watermelons poisoned by Ukrainian resistance fighters in an occupied city>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
Putin ‘s troops based in the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol received the melons from unwitting Russian locals, who received them from the city’s partisan groups, according to local media reports.....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
The Ukrainian 24 Kanal outlet said the watermelons had been given to local resistance fighters who passed them on to the Russians who then sold them to the Russian soldiers.
Following the deaths, a Ukrainian resistance group posted: ‘That’s for you, guys! Thank you for protecting us.’
Pyotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the exiled mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, said: ‘The resistance movement is actively fighting.’
File image of Russian soldiers walkng along a street in Mariupol on April 12, 2022
He added that Russians who had moved to the occupied territories had been hired to deliver the poisoned fruit.
He said: ‘Our people [Ukrainians] do not directly participate in the delivery of such dangerous ‘gifts’ to the Russians.
‘There are always people who come en masse from Russia and want to make money. That is, they want to trade something.
‘The operation was simple. It was clear that watermelons were being purchased for a military base.
‘It was clear who was going to supply these watermelons. These people were sold a batch of watermelons at a low price, which then caused the intended damage.’
Mariupol was captured after a three-month battle following Moscow’s attack on Ukraine in 2022.
The city has since been left in ruins with pockets of resistance carrying out small acts of sabotage.
Last year, two dozen Russian soldiers were reported to have died after drinking poisoned vodka supplied by another resistance group in neighbouring occupied Crimea.
The group calling itself the Crimea Combat Seagulls posted on the Telegram channel that it had killed 24 Russian soldiers.
It added that it had hospitalised 11 others after giving them poisoned food and drinks in Simferopol, Crimea’s second-largest city.
The group has also boasted of luring dozens of Russian troops into accepting ‘goodies’ laced with arsenic and strychnine at a military checkpoint from ‘nice girls>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
