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Didn’t the separatists do this on naboo in phantom menace?
I am always surprised that he is now more known as mayor than as a boxer. He and his brother were great boxers. >

My parents always called him "my godfather" and I still have no idea why. >

Maybe he was your godfather? >

-Kyiv Mayor [and former boxing heavyweight champion]
Fun fact: the song “Sonne” by Rammstein was to be used as his entrance music at one point. >

So that inspired me to look up a translation of the lyrics.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,out
It will not go down tonight
And the world counts loudly to 10

Yup das is boxink >

Damn that’s one scary looking dude. I feel like a mortar shell would bounce off his forehead >

Well he was heavyweight champion for awhile who was known to have granite chin. Definitely someone not worth messing with. >

It's so weird. I remember watching his fights when I was younger. I looked up to him as a boxer that never up.
He is still the same as Mayor. One cold and hard mother fucker that just keeps going. No matter how hard he has it.
Ukrainians are a different breed >

Some of the nastiest wars being fought in the same land for centuries will carve some fuckers out of stone. Poland/Ukraine - Galacia, there are some brute force genes found there, but it’s brains to keep one alive, so smart and tough. >

Do you mean Galicia, or Galatia? I've never head of a Galacia >

No worries - wiki >

Wow, nice. I learned something today >

:) love to hear it!
Tracing my family tree had me learn it as some great great grandparents had it written on tombstones as their birth place. It’s crazy how borders change and empires have come and gone and there’s really just too much human history to learn in school. >

It’s a great sign your winning the locals over by having to kidnap 30 mayors…. >

If they kidnapped 30 then 30 of them must be missing? >

I assume they must be in contact with the other 23 somehow? >

23 flipped, possibly.   Perhaps decided their lives were worth more than their morals and ethics.  Can't blame them.
They probably told the Russians everything they knew.  Or, played along with the invading army's demands anyway.
The ones who disappeared may have held out too long, or perhaps the invading army thought they had more to offer than they actually did.
The mayors who didn't get kidnapped at all are the ones who just immediately switched sides and started parroting Russian propaganda.  Of course many of them are now dead, targeted specifically by Ukraine, and personally I'd agree valid military targets.
Ukranian mayor Olga Sukhenko was executed alongside her family.  Yuriy Prylypko was killed too.  Russian puppets Ivan Sushko, Vitaly Gur, Vladimir Saldo, and many others were assassinated for their perceived treason. >

Not sure why you have Olga Sukhenko alongside the others, wasn't she and her family killed by Russians because she helped the Ukrainian military?
Including both Olga Sukhenko and Yuriy Prylypko alongside the rest of the traitor makes it seem like they were killed by the Ukrainians when in fact they were killed by Russians because Yuriy was helping the local people. >

Yes, absolutely.  Sorry I wasn't clear - Olga and Yuriy were killed by Russians because they wouldn't flip. >

Dr Ironfist is not someone I would ever mess with....He was my favorite heavyweight in his day and then retired for a while and came back and was just as scary....im positive he still has that dog in him >

Kidnap Klitschko? He looks like he can kill a rhinoceros with his bare hands. >

I guess trying to kidnap the Klitchkos, former world heavyweight boxing champions, was never considered. >

30 getting brain washed, tortured and blackmailed then sent back to make sure "referendums" go as planned >

Now that's quite the conspiracy theory >

Is it though? What's the most likely reason for taking people in the given context?
Well.... I guess it could be to kill them behind closed doors rather than in their homes, office or the street. >

Attempted coup failed. >

Imagine being so bad at kidnapping, only 7 of the 30 people you kidnap actually go missing? >

in their defense many of those mayors weren't kids! >

Yeah they were fully grown billies and nannies… 🐐 >

u/whiteraven42 its sad that you just delete all your comments instead of admitting you were being silly and allowing others to gain from the conversation. There's nothing wrong with being wrong. Were all humans here just trying to improve. >

This is a mayor problem. >

Get off Reddit. >

Can you say “ Commie playbook”