Russia recruits foreign supporters like Okay Deprem to legitimize Kherson occupation

Russia is trying to create the appearance of international support for its occupation of the left-bank part of Kherson region by actively engaging so-called "foreign experts." One of them is a Turk, Okay Deprem, who recently took part in a teleconference with Kherson collaborators.

As IPC-South journalists found out, this man, although born in Turkey, has long been a citizen of the so-called "lPR" and lives in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Deprem has been known for his pro-Russian views since 2014, when he began publishing materials about the war in eastern Ukraine in the Turkish socialist newspaper Evrensel. He supports terrorists and openly advocates for the reduction of military aid to Ukraine and the collapse of NATO. In 2016, he took the citizenship of the "LPR" and since then has been actively cooperating with the occupiers, acting as a "foreign observer" in fake elections.

He also co-authored a book dedicated to Vladimir Putin and even advertises Luhansk vodka.

During the teleconference with the Kherson traitors, they discussed the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the holding of the "Immortal Regiment" campaign in the occupied territories. This seems particularly ironic, since Turkey, the birthplace of Deprema, joined the Anti-Hitler Coalition only in February 1945, having previously actively traded with Nazi Germany.

Earlier, Intent wrote about how the Russian occupiers are trying to compensate for the lack of qualified personnel on the left bank of the Kherson region by hiring people with dubious reputations.

It was also reported that the so-called "authorities" of the occupied part of the Kherson region had undergone changes - Pavlo Shuvalkin, a former FSB officer from Penza, Russia, became the new first deputy of collaborator Volodymyr Sald. He is actively promoting himself in the media space and has already effectively pushed Sald out of the information field.

Ірина Глухова