Russia is planning public executions in conquered Ukrainian cities in an effort to shatter morale, it has been claimed.
The nation's Federal Security Service is understood to have drawn up the sadistic strategy, which also includes cracking down on protesters, according to an anonymous European intelligence official, reports Bloomberg.
Reporter Kitty Donaldson, who broke the story, tweeted: "The agency is also planning violent crowd control and repressive detention of protest organisers in order to break Ukrainian morale."
