State Dept: Russia Has ‘Kill Lists’ That May Include LGBTQ+ Ukrainians
sent a letter to the United Nations claiming that Russian authorities have come up with “kill lists” of Ukrainians to be killed or detained during an invasion of the country.U.S.
has intelligence that suggests "there will be an even greater form of brutality because this will not simply be some conventional war between two armies," White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan said on the NBC's Today show Monday morning."It will be a war waged by Russia on the Ukrainian people to repress them, to crush them, to harm them.
And that is what we laid out in detail for the U.N.," he said. The list reportedly contains the names of people whom Russian authorities would order to be killed or sent to camps, NPR reports.Russia is notorious for its persecution of LGBTQ+ people.
Russia infamously adopted a “gay propaganda” law in 2013, banning any mention of LGBTQ+ issues in venues accessible to minors.
