Rumours that things are not going smoothly in Kherson Oblast have been circulating for a long time. Their confirmation regularly appears on social media. This time, Tim Zlatkin posted a plea for help on his Facebook page, accusing Lenur Islamov and his fighters of banditry and looting

“Chongar vs Chaplynka

At the first checkpoint, the sane Crimean battalion of the Azov regiment is stationed. People pass through normally, with virtually no problems, everything is according to regulations and the law. You won’t find avatars [pro-Russian symbols], road robberies have decreased, and the airborne troops standing nearby are very effectively and intelligently suppressing enemy special operations group movements. Order, in a word.

At the second checkpoint, a jerk in a balaclava claims to be Aidar and the SBU (interestingly, are they even aware of this?), they are rude, threaten with execution, sometimes loot, and beat people up. The local population, if they were previously actively pro-Ukrainian, now awaits Mother Russia as a salvation from regular looting and lawlessness. Former Afghan veterans sleep at home hugging their rifles. A protest uprising will flare up any day now due to the regular banditry of Islamov’s thugs.
And this scum dares to set conditions for the president and the government, barking on TV about betrayal and the dumping of pro-Ukrainian patriotic Tatars.
Chubarov, looking at this lawlessness, shamefully remains silent. Dzhemilev seems to have stepped aside. It looks like the collection of "patriots at the border" will soon become Ukraine’s main problem on the Crimean border. Because they have stopped being a problem for the Russian occupiers”, - wrote Tim.