An absolutely classic story of a #Ukraine collaborationist who betrayed his country for #Russia hoping for wealth and prestige, but ended up dead.
In 2014 Konstantin Ermanov was the first to raise Russian flag in #Kerch in #Ukraine #Crimea and welcomed its annexation.
In appreciation of his betrayal, Russian authorities nominated him as member of the Kerch city council, where he discovered extreme levels of corruption introduced by Sergey Aksenov and, stupidly, started to criticise it.
As Denis Kazansky wrote, “suddenly it became clear that criticising the authorities was only possible under Ukraine but Russia will not tolerate such behaviour”.
So in 2022 Russian police staged their classic show “capturing a totally random driver with a pack of marijuana” and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He then volunteered to join the army in hope for a pardon, but he instead he promptly died in one of the “meat attacks”.
