Gonzalo Lira López, a 54-year-old Chilean-American writer who lives in Ukraine & has been reporting from Kharkov since the start of the current war, has not been heard from since Friday. There is reason to fear that he has been arrested by the SBU, or worse.
He was scheduled to appear on George Galloway's "Mother of All Talkshows" today, but Galloway was unable to get in contact with him.
An unconfirmed report today, in a comment by Oleg Petrov on Lira's Telegram channel, says that Lira has been killed: "BREAKING NEWS: Gonzalo Lira was killed by Ukrainian SBU after an investigation of Russian spies, Ukrainian authorities confirm 18:30 local time."
April 17 – Scott Ritter: "Kharkov is definitely a city that is firmly in the grip of the Nazis. And anybody who lives in that city, such as Mr. Lira – who is not of that political persuasion – is at risk."https://twitter.com/Anabel_Villeroy/status/1515800141126586368
There is an escelation in Kharkiv & shelling etc so it's possible he's been caught in the crossfire or the internet got fucked up where he is but he's also someone who speaks out against Ukraine govt & so in a lot of danger from fascist paramilitaries there - they have lists of people like him & hunt them down. There are lots of rumours about where he is incl that he was arrested 2 days ago.
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https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1515879508246765574
(dumb cunt)
"if you haven't heard from me in 12 hours of more, put my name on the list". Seems that gonzalo has a lot to gain from stirring up this kind of drama... Or the SBU found that he is communicating with the FSB (or similar) and have rightly detained him as an enemy agent. We may never know.