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 criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. The leader of the notorious volunteer battalion of Tornado has been released, according to reports. 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. Ollie. 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. If we refused to work, the Tornado members threatened to kill us. 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Members of the Tornado battalion appeared in the Kyiv court. Written: 18:53, 27. 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 The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. Tornado's members were detained, placed in a pre-trial detention center. In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as. 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.Zelensky Frees Tornado and Sends Back to the FrontIn February 2022, prisoners with military experience who were ready to take part in combat activity, under martial law, started to be released from their places of detention, a prosecutor's office official, Andriy Sinyuk, told reporters.Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted.The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. Both are perverted maniacs. In 2022 the Territorial Defense Forces were created as a successor of the old territorial defense battalions. After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. 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Popular opinions were split: some, despite the evidence of crimes against Ukrainian civilians, believed in the innocence of the former "national heroes", while others wanted a fair trial and retribution. REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO (3) SPECIAL REPORT 5 UKRAINE MAVERICK BATTALIONS and bribes are still used for everything from At about 0430 on the morning of 11 July, a column of battalions from the Ukrainian 24th and 72nd Mechanized Brigades and 79th Airmobile Brigade was struck with an intense artillery barrage near Zelenopillya. The Ukrainian military revolted after they had learnt that Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov was planning to disband the Tornado battalion KIEV, June 18 /TASS/. This ultra-nationalist group was formed in October 2014 as part of a Ukrainian Interior Ministry strategy. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. 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 . Here, for example, a conversation:The voices of two of the Tornado battalion's most notorious criminals, Ruslan Onishchenko (codename Freeman) and Danil Lyashuk (codename "Mujahid"), are clearly distinguishable on the recording. On one day, another detainee and I were forced, under threat of murder, to rape a third detainee who was stripped naked and tied to a support. Access to the chat has been blocked for violating the. This was in 2016. The Ukrainian president's decision to platform the far-right military force backfired dramatically in a country where memories of Golden Dawn are still fresh and the public are questioning the motives of those involved in geopolitical power play, says KEVIN OVENDEN. Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group. 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). But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. 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. 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The said events and torture were recorded by Tornado members on mobile phones. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid.From an article published by Novaya Gazeta*, a former Tornado fighter's story about Mujahid:He was the one who came up with the idea of scripting role-playing scenarios of same-sex torture-rape. These guys were so bad that even the Nazis from the Azoz Battalion testified against them and the Ukes were forced to jailed them for war crimes. 107 Followers Follow. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 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. During the fight against the "separatists", almost every resident of the settlement went through the illegal detention facilities organised by the Tornado battalion members.On 10 February 2015, fighters from the Tornado battalion and the Chernigov special police battalion led by SBU officers detained a pensioner M, who lived in the so-called LPR-controlled territory, at a checkpoint in Stanitsa Luganskaya settlement, Lugansk region. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. However, the Ukrainian government was in for a surprise when it realized it did not have the authority to control these battalions after all. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. Perhaps what was most surprising is who called them that: the country's chief military prosecutor and minister of internal affairs.Material presented by the Ukrainian media, prosecutors and human rights activists show that Tornado fighters robbed, tortured, and raped men and women and killed Ukrainian civilians. If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. April 10, 2017 08:46 GMT. On April 7, a Kyiv court sentenced seven former members of the Tornado police battalion to 8 to 10 years in prison, and its leader to 11 years in prison, for torture and rape of civilians. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. They did a horrible thing to my son. As stated earlier, the court was under enormous pressure. The legal counsels and the Tornado members themselves used this catch. On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. "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. (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. Former military personnel among convicts and detainees who have expressed the desire to defend Ukraine in its effort to fight off the Russian aggression are being released from prisons and detention facilities. Alyona Mazurenko SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 12:39 PM. 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." The men screamed violently. Freeman found all this amusing. The public learned about the crimes of the Shakhtyorsk battalion almost straight away. 47. And then he filmed this video. The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. [15] By law, every oblast in Ukraine should create its own territorial defence battalions.[5]. The discussion is closed. 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, . He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. They were personally loyal to the commander and ready to carry out any assignment. 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). 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. In the basement of the school 32 in the city of Pryvillia fighters of the 'Tornado' battalion 'Mojahed' and 'Bizon' tortured an unknown man with a stun gun. "The Blacks were fighters who were not formally recruited because they had criminal records; Freeman actively recruited them into the Tornado. Several times, I have found myself in a situation where you bring help to the military and start praying to God to get out of there alive and well. less than five months after seizing power - the new Ukrainian authorities started infringing on people's rights to express their . 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. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. I was standing on the side of his head, as they demanded that I put my penis into the mouth of the tied man and the other into his anus. If you joined the battalion, it was virtually impossible to leave. 15 July 2022. They immediately received an assault rifle and were trained by more experienced fighters. 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. The Tornado unit was formed in October 2014 as part of Ukrainian Interior Ministry. President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov Battalion . He is on trial for molesting his own young children. Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. Many have been . According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. That is wrong".In response, one of the defendants started shouting: "Why are you so melodramatic? 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). https://sputniknews.com/20220502/the-tornado-case-atrocities-and-sadism-among-ukrainian-nazi-police-battalions-1094944567.html, The Tornado Case: Atrocities and Sadism Among Ukrainian Nazi Police Battalions, "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. In a key test of Ukraine's justice system, a Kiev court in April imprisoned former members of the disbanded, pro-Ukrainian "Tornado battalion" for torturing and sexually assaulting civilians in . There are reports that the former Tornado members have seized APCs and additional weapons from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and have started doing their usual business. The latter in the Kyiv court joined the battalion to carry out any assignment we to... 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