, c , , , . , , 454/2014 , "In Nikolaev create the armed battalion of territorial self-defence for situation deduction in the region", "Promised Remedies Transformation 34 Battalion territorial defence", . The officers in question consumed marijuana about six or seven times in our presence by consuming it through a makeshift water bong.The Protocol II:The Protocol III:The Protocol IV:The Kharkov Human Rights Protection Group ReportMost of the citizens who experienced the so-called "mop-up" refused to describe their stories in writing, fearing for their safety. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. The SNA and the Patriot of Ukraine, together with Svoboda and . Since 30 April 2014, all territorial defence battalions have been part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fall under the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the governors of the oblasts (provinces) in which they were created. But founder of the Tornado battalion Andriy Filonenko (below, left) and Serhiy Melnychuk, founder and former commander of the Aidar battalion, say Ukraine's elite are simply out to protect themselves. You can call it a disarmament operation. The head of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic in Ukraine has been seen in a video awarding a medal to a fighter for helping to kill "more than 250 nationalists." Published on April 3 through . Some of the Tornado men have personally confessed to having a tendency towards sadism, a predilection for torture. "The Shakhtyorsk battalion, having fought beautifully at Ilovaisk, was disbanded by ministerial order because of repeated incidents of looting in Volnovakha and other instances". This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured 4. One of Freeman's cronies, codenamed Achilles, who had also served time before the conflict and had connections in criminal circles, specifically collected information on who was released and when. The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation: Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. A Russian journalist has visited the former base of the notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi Tornado battalion and found evidence of murder, torture, and rape, including of underage girls. After a while, a man, holding a grey plastic pipe, came in and started hitting the detainees present on their buttocks and thighs. It was not until 20 February 2015 that the detainee was transferred, as specified in the investigating judge's ruling, to his lawful place of detention - the Starobelsk pre-trial detention facilities where upon admission he was found to have sustained injuries inflicted on the day of his detention, on 10 February 2015, and marks which remained 10 days after his detention. Residents had been contacting the police and even other national battalions about the "lawlessness" and crimes of the Tornado fighters practically from the very start. However, the Ukrainian government was in for a surprise when it realized it did not have the authority to control these battalions after all. [5] These resources soon proved to be inadequate and numerous groups have helped to equip the battalions. On February 23, the Russian defense ministry claimed that Ukrainian armed forces were planning a provocation against the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria "with the involvement of the nationalist Azov battalion." The ministry added that Ukraine plans to stage an attack by Russian forces in Transnistria as a "pretext to invade." They were personally loyal to the commander and ready to carry out any assignment. "Mujahid (Danil Lyashuk), a supporter of the Islamic State (a terrorist organisation outlawed in Russia), according to Ukraine's Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios, was known for his exceptional cruelty: "Lyashuk committed with extreme cynicism and audacity, cruelty and ruthlessness the most brutal torture of the local population of Lugansk region, organised and directly participated in the rape of detainees whom he and other suspects abducted for profit. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. When you watch the video footage of the trial, it is shocking how brazen and insolent the Tornado fighters are, apparently confident that they can get away with anything. The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler. Freeman found all this amusing. This archive photo shows Ruslan Onishchenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion, with other Tornado fighters in Lysychansk. Do you think I am lying? The elderly man was put in the basement, where there were eight other people besides him. Are you sure that is what they did? The now-famed Ukrainian defendersmostly members of marine and Azov Battalion unitswere increasingly confined to the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, which would become the last bastion of . Members of the Tornado battalion appeared in the Kyiv court. The base is located in the village of Privolye near the Lugansk People's Republic city of Lisichansk, which was recently liberated by Russian and allied . By Interfax-Ukraine. The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. "Throughout my detention in the basement, I do not remember the exact number of days, but for more than 15, the police came to the basement several times a day, tied me to a support, beat me with their hands and feet, poured water on me, and tortured me with electric shocks. The Russian Communist Party pushed to label the battalions as terrorist organizations, even though they are directly subordinate to the Government of Ukraine and are legal government agencies of Ukraine. #Ukraine: Today Ruslan Onishchenko, the commander of the Neo-Nazi Tornado battalion, was released from prison by the Zelensky regime, alongside thousands of other criminals.Onishchenko was previously condemned to 10 years imprisonment for rape, torture and murder of civilians. By this point, the Tornado radicals became so convinced of their ability to operate with impunity that they proceeded to block rail freight traffic in the region. He would show this video to half the battalion. In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. The leader of the notorious volunteer battalion of Tornado has been released, according to reports. 47. #Russia #Ukraine : Daniil Dashuk from #Belarus (ex-#Tornado Battalion member) released a new video.He can be seen with an AK-74 rifle (equipped . At 10 p.m., we were brought to the school building in our village, where the Tornado battalion was stationed, which everyone knew about, and put me in the basement. Eventually, several months later, in mid-June 2015, Hennadiy Moskal, the head of the Kiev-controlled administration of Lugansk, demanded that the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies disarm the Tornado battalion and remove it from Lugansk region. The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. This odious battalion became famous for kidnapping and holding civilians in their own prison, torturing them and . After some time, they took him out of the basement ("the pit") and while he was in a sitting position, some unidentified individuals beat his legs and back with an iron pipe. The correspondence is stacked with a large number of relevant photographs. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . You can participate in the discussion within 24 hours after the publication of the article. Since the 2014 intervention in Ukraine by Russian forces and proxy forces (i.e. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. One such battalion, dubbed "Tornado", was disbanded in December 2014 by Kiev following numerous reports of its crimes, but its members were never prosecuted, with many of them moving to other battalions.The crimes of another notorious voluntary battalion, "Aidar", were investigated, documented, and exposed by the Amnesty International non-profit. Near Kiev detained "Mojahed" - the most bloodthirsty fighter units "Tornado". An eyewitness to the detention of the elderly man in the basement was Ms H., the business manager of the Stanitsa Luganskaya settlement council, who was held in the same room for several hours, together with the detainee, and accidentally witnessed his ill-treatment. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. Was Turkey's Earthquake Really Caused by a 'Super Space Weapon'? 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . Ukrainian military prosecutors, police, and residents allege that members of the Tornado battalion tasked with policing Pryvillia and nearby communities went rogue, committing violent crimes . This is what Moskal said on 112 Ukraine TV at the time:By this point, the Tornado radicals became so convinced of their ability to operate with impunity that they proceeded to block rail freight traffic in the region. By August 2014 over 5,600 volunteers had joined defence battalions across Ukraine and about 7,000 volunteers had joined by the end of September.[22][23]. Fast forward to 2022. The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front. They did a horrible thing to my son. Lilia Ukrainskaya, a well-known volunteer who delivered food to the Tornado battalion, reported the following: From the testimony given by the victims in court: There was an old woman living nearby on Lebedinskogo Street, paralysed, her children had fled the shelling when the conflict started, and her neighbour was looking after her. The national battalion was stationed in the part of the Lugansk region which was under Ukrainian control (not to be confused with the LPR - Sputnik). Many agreed and came.The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters.The "Whites", fighters that were former police officers who were discharged or had not been re-certified in the summer of 2015 and came to serve in the battalion. They were personally loyal to the commander and ready to carry out any assignment. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. I do not know whether the military prosecutor's office knows this fact. separatists militias, mainly located in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic) and related conflicts onwards, i.e. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. For example, when a Novaya Gazeta* correspondent talked to both residents of Lugansk region and former Tornado fighters, he discovered a rather unambiguous picture ("The Tornado Effect", an article from 17 October 2016).Gradually it became clear to us that all those 'separatists' in the basements that Freeman (Onishchenko) and his people told us about were simple drunks and workers from Severodonetsk and the surrounding towns and cities but not militants of any kind. KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. Both are perverted maniacs. The yelling, public threats and humiliation paralyzed the fighters.After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating.Among the Tornado members who came to their senses, there were some who dared to escape. . On 17 June 2015, eight members of the battalion, including battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained. "Rape, Torture, Robbery: Victim Testimonies Against Ukrainian Tornado Battalion (ENG SUBS)." Zone (blog), March 9, 2022. https://www.stalkerzone.org . The wave of outrage over the crimes of the Tornado battalion was so strong that the Ukrainian law enforcement system, despite the constant cover-up of war criminals, was forced to react. Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret.The public learned about the crimes of the Shakhtyorsk battalion almost straight away. Then they (Tornado members) used bare current-carrying wires to touch various parts of the prisoners bodies, such as the temples, the penis and the scrotum. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. Already during the trial in the summer of 2015, some of the authorities were indignant and perplexed: how is it that criminals . Members of Ukraine's . Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov personally disbanded Shakhtyorsk. Before the invasion, the Ukrainian military had already begun an expansion process of the territorial defense forces in preparation of the Russian invasion. Photo by Alexander Rychkov Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv has released from custody two former fighters of the Tornado Interior Ministry battalion Mykyta Kust and Maksym Hliebov, both of whom have been placed under . The Tornado unit was formed in October 2014 as part of Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. Alyona Mazurenko SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 12:39 PM. The court ruled to commute the sentence by releasing him from prison and imposing a probation period of three years.Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation.All those convicted fall under the Savchenko Law (one day in pre-trial detention counts as two days in prison). However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each. It shows his communication with Ukrainian volunteer Volodymyr Savanchuk and his wife Svetlana. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them.According to the prosecutor, the most brutal forms of violence were sexual offences against men, committed in a particularly perverse form, with the entire process being recorded on mobile phones. justify the war crimes, committed by the Ukrainian units, by the state of war. If we refused to work, they threatened to shoot us. This was in 2016. Since February, videos have been appearing on social networks in which Lyashuk with a weapon in his hands says that he is fighting as a member of the Ukrainian Army.This perverted sadist, Mujahid, is currently at the front. The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed on March 4 that Ukrainian Special Forces killed 50 soldiers belonging to the Russian 31st Airborne Brigade based at Ulyanovsk in fighting in Hostomel on March 3. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. If you joined the battalion, it was virtually impossible to leave. They were recruited officially.The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. 17 March 2014 Ukraine began first stage of mobilization; 18 March 2014 - 3rd Territorial Defence Battalion was created in Lviv Oblast; 19 March 2014 - the Defence Regiment was created in Dnipropetrovsk (later, the regiment was reformed into two territorial defence battalions) 6th Territorial Defence Battalion was created in Ternopil Oblast "A dozen fighters stole a young girl and raped her for 10 days until the child died. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015. Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in February 2014 and the War on Donbass since April 2014, several military formations have appeared. 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He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. Tag: Tornado Battalion (Ukraine) Ukraine War. [4] These formations were subordinated to the Ministry of Defense. For example, a report by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, a Ukrainian human rights organisation, and the Truth Hounds, another human rights organisation, describes an incident involving the abduction by Shakhtyorsk fighters of several residents of Marinka, who were first used as human shields to provide cover from sniper fire. Does Nol Le Grat still have a chance to return to the helm of the FFF? The said events and torture were recorded by Tornado members on mobile phones. "The Blacks were fighters who were not formally recruited because they had criminal records; Freeman actively recruited them into the Tornado. The court ruled to commute the sentence by releasing him from prison and imposing a probation period of three years. Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios said Commander of the battalion Onishchenko - has five previous convictions -created a criminal gang in the town of Privolye and incited his officers to grave crimes. Members of the so-called "Tornado squadron" are suspected of looting, rape, torture, and murder. The Tornado battalion was founded as an occult structure which was set up and developed at the State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence in Donetsk, said philosopher, political scientist, . Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. They accounted for half of the battalion. They say they want to defend their freedom. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front.In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as "ATO heroes" were being called criminals. Furthermore, I was forced to do humiliating chores every day, cleaning toilets, collecting cigarette butts, and so on. A veteran of the Ukrainian national guard's Azov Battalion conducts military exercises for civilians in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022 [File: Gleb Garanich/Reuters] Published On 1 Mar 2022 1 . The battalions were established in mid-2014, during the early stages of the war in Donbas, to combat the pro-Russian separatists[1][2][3] and the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, and the United Armed Forces of Novorossiya. If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. They were first sent to Stanitsa Luganskaya, and when I first arrived, dear mother, I heard quite enough: they had kidnapped two people who had a large sum of money. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. Following the discontinuation of Special Operations Militia Battalion Shakhtarsk (which had been created at the initiative of the member of parliament Oleh Liashko and fought near Ilovaisk), Ministry of Interior detachment Saint . The legal counsels and the Tornado members themselves used this catch.The case itself was reported to consist of 86 volumes.Witness TestimonyAs stated earlier, the court was under enormous pressure. Mujahid came up with the idea of shooting a movie in the basement involving prisoners, he called it just like that the cinema", says one of the battalion fighters, for whom the prosecutor's office has no questions and he was not prosecuted. Written: 18:53, 27. 1,127 Subscribers Subscribe. The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. They were simply abducted, used as slaves, abused, and some were killed, the newspaper quoted former Tornado fighters and testimony from civilians:Sometimes we were more afraid of them than the shelling. Photo by Alexander Rychkov. They were recruited officially. Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has offered Germany to transfer Tornado fighter jets planned for decommissioning to Ukraine. 264. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. According to the prosecutor, the most brutal forms of violence were sexual offences against men, committed in a particularly perverse form, with the entire process being recorded on mobile phones. Among other things, three of the defendants were charged with committing crimes under Part 3 of Article 153 of the Criminal Code (sexual indulgence in perverse forms committed repeatedly or by a group of persons). Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siardhttp://stalkerzone.org/victim-testimonies-against-ukrainian-tornado-battalion-eng-subs/Original video from: ht. Once again, let us turn to the information that a correspondent of Novaya Gazeta* was able to obtain from a former "Tornado" member: You could roughly divide the Tornado personnel into three groups. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access.In one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him.Tornado fighters also set up a torture chamber in the basement of a school in Lysychansk where they raped and tortured locals, including minors and retired people regardless of their gender. For instance, members of "tornado" battalion accused of kidnappings, tor-ture and rape, denied their responsibility, claiming that they had kept in the places of detention ("in basements") only the "separatists"3. They justified their rail terrorism by citing "the struggle against smuggling, corruption and illegal arms trade". But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated.Some of the Tornado men have personally confessed to having a tendency towards sadism, a predilection for torture. They put me in the basement An hour or two passed Onishchenko arrived and was glad they had brought me. They sit in that cage and laugh. They barricaded themselves in their base (the school premises), booby-trapped the approaches and said they were ready to use weapons in the event of an assault. In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. Both the prosecution and the defence said that they were going to appeal against the verdict as one side considered it too lenient and the other too severe. Afterwards, by rotating the metal handle of the telephone, bare wires were pressed against various parts of the body. And then he filmed this video. Those 170 people, of whom 100 are now officially registered with the police, and about 70 are unidentified people, are armed and staying on the territory of the base In mid-March, when I was near the driveway, a bus pulled up and three men in camouflage uniforms got out and forcibly took me into the minibus. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines.Among the released former fighters of the punitive battalion is Danil Lyashuk, known by his moniker "Mujahid". In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. It was winter. Remember when Zelensky said he would release prisoners with . Tornado battalion (which actually was only a company) was created in 2014 in Zaporizhia and came under command of the Ministry of Interior.. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. Anatoly Plamadyal received a sentence of eight years in prison. Here is how he commented on his actions on Ukrainian television:In other words, he knew of at least some of the crimes, and even then, in 2014, the obvious criminals were deliberately not put on trial and were never punished, but simply assigned to other "volunteer battalions" (ed. Four . Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify.When Did the Tornado Battalion Emerge, and Who Joined It?The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs established the Tornado battalion in September 2014 from the personnel of the Shakhtyorsk national battalion, who were disbanded due to allegations of looting and crimes against the population.This prompted bewilderment and outrage during the trial in the summer of 2015 among some of the authorities: how could it be that a special police unit had recruited criminals, and who could have allowed this to happen? Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. When the stun guns discharged, they told me and one other person to stand up. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. Since February, videos have been appearing on social networks in which Lyashuk with a weapon in his hands says that he is fighting as a member of the Ukrainian Army. It is unknown what they really agreed upon with the Tornado fighters, but later Avakov said that the battalion obeyed his orders and respected discipline and order. Then, according to the reports, they were held for some time with plastic bags over their heads, subjected to beatings and forced to do hard, dirty work.Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov personally disbanded Shakhtyorsk. The victims did not believe that the same authorities who had thrown them to the mercy of the Tornado fighters would give the battalion a fair trial: today they are behind bars and tomorrow they'll be free taking revenge on those who dared to testify against them (spoiler: indeed that is what happened the defendants were later released). 11 September 2015. 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