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Suspected looters in Ukraine were tied to light posts and spanked with sticks in a video that’s more similar to America’s red light districts than a battlefront.
The suspected looters were cling wrapped before being publicly flogged with their pants pulled down.
The floggings occurred in Kremenchuk, an industrial city in central Ukraine which is home to numerous factories of major corporations, including automakers and bottling works.
“Japan Tobacco Inc. said Friday it halted operations at a plant in Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, where it employs 900 staff. Bottling company Coca-Cola HBC shut down operations in the country and sent staff home, joining a growing list of firms including Carlsberg AS, Nestle SA and AB InBev Efes, a joint venture between Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and Anadolu Efes, to halt local production because of the fighting,” reported Fortune.
The idle factories, filled with supplies and tools, would explain the heavy-handed response to looters in Kremenchuk, especially if the plant equipment can be retooled for war.
The footage brings to mind a 2015 video in which suspected looters in Eastern Ukraine were left tied to poles.