A Russian governor in Siberia was recently engaged in an emotional confrontation with angry local people, who blamed him for deploying a local riot police unit as “cannon fodder” in Ukraine, a video clip circulating online on Monday showed.

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The footage, first posted by Radio Free Europe (RFE), showed a fiery exchange between Sergei Tsivilyov, governor of the Kemerovo region, and people in the city of Novokuznetsk. “They lied to everyone, they deceived everyone ... Why did you send them there?” one woman asks Tsivilyov, saying that the soldiers thought they were going for military drills in Belarus. “They didn’t know their objectives ... They were sent as cannon fodder,” the woman adds.
According to RFE, the confrontation took place on 5 March at the gymnasium of the training base for riot police units, whose officers were killed or captured in Ukraine.

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