The action was part of a live-fire training exercise for new recruits on a recent morning outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. 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. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. They were personally loyal to the commander and ready to carry out any assignment. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. SHARES. 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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Azov began as a military infantry unit made up of civilian volunteers drawn from far-right, neo-Nazi groups that were active in Ukraine, such as the Patriot of Ukraine gang and the Social National Assembly (SNA). Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. 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. After a while, a man, holding a grey plastic pipe, came in and started hitting the detainees present on their buttocks and thighs. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. 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). If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. The Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. It is reported by "Strana.ua" with reference to the ex-People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk. The fighters could come into any house and take whatever they liked.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. They tried to make him confess to having detonated an explosion at a military checkpoint, which he did not do. 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. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. 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. They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . According to its data, the former commander of the disbanded company of . Are you sure that is what they did? 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. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election several members of the battalions were elected into the Ukrainian parliament. After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. The ships of the "Karakurt" and "Buyan-M" projects with "Caliber" went to the exercises in the Baltic Sea, The weather on Tuesday: cold, lightly snowy in the southeast, and rainy in Corsica, The lawyer's concern: The verdict could lead to fewer reports, What is the fate of Zelensky after the end of the war? Yuri Shevchenko received a sentence of five years in prison. 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. 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". The detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. Tornado battalion soldiers to be redeployed. This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured 4. All those convicted fall under the Savchenko Law (one day in pre-trial detention counts as two days in prison). Its commander and 12 other battalion's militants were . Reduction of five years in prison with the 'yes is yes' law for the man who raped and killed an 83-year-old woman, Pushilin: Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack in the Ugledar direction, Belgian Finance Ministry: Brussels freezes Russian assets worth 58 billion. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. 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. Photo by Alexander Rychkov. Members of the so-called "Tornado squadron" are suspected of looting, rape, torture, and murder. 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. 15 July 2022. If you joined the battalion, it was virtually impossible to leave. 47. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During the opening stages of the war in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian military and police forces were largely ineffective in separatist areas, often surrendering equipment or overwhelmed in cities by large crowds of civilians. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It was winter. Already during the trial in the summer of 2015, some of the authorities were indignant and perplexed: how is it that criminals . In March 2014 acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov issued an order to create seven territorial defence battalions. 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. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. "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 court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. 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. Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. [29]After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government announced general mobilisation [30] and formed new territorial defense battalions to accommodate the influx in men. They tried to make him confess to having detonated an explosion at a military checkpoint, which he did not do. That's fair, says Onishchenko. In the Kiev region, a fighter of the Tornado company Daniil Lyashchuk (Al-Takbir), nicknamed "Mujahid", was detained, hiding from the investigation for several months, reports With reference to the military prosecutor of Ukraine . In one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him. In 2022 the Territorial Defense Forces were created as a successor of the old territorial defense battalions. Tornado battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko received 11 years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist 02.05.2022, Sputnik International, /html/head/meta[@name='og:title']/@content, /html/head/meta[@name='og:description']/@content, https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e6/04/15/1094946339_1:0:600:337_1920x0_80_0_0_15aaf82aaea1a0cc3d3d1ed1e20bada5.jpg.webp. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. Does Nol Le Grat still have a chance to return to the helm of the FFF? He made me jack him off The girl admitted that she had petitioned not to sleep in the same bed with Ruslan Onishchenko: I didn't ask to be put in a separate room, but at least in a separate bed. Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. 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). The case, consisting of 80 volumes, was considered for almost two years with the participation of 111 witnesses and 13 victims. If you are ready to die, you have the right to kill. (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . Sputnik News. The 19th Territorial Defence Battalion was created in, The 21st Territorial Defence Battalion was created in, 22 July 2014 Ukraine began third stage of mobilisation, The 37th Territorial Defence Battalion was formed between 29 August 2014, The 41st Territorial Defence Battalion was formed in, 1st Territorial Defence Battalion Volyn (, 3rd Territorial Defence Battalion "Volya" (, 4th Territorial Defence Battalion disbanded "Zakarpattia" (, 41st Territorial Defence Battalion disbanded "Chernihiv-2" (, 43rd Territorial Defence Battalion "Patriot" (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast), This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 19:43. By Interfax-Ukraine. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. A woman told reporters that she had barely managed to save her 9-year-old daughter from the drunken Tornado fighters, who were about to rape the little girl. 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. Veterans of the Azov Battalion, who took part in the war with Russia-backed separatists in the east of Ukraine, salute during a mass 'No Surrender' rally in Kyiv in March 2020 Sergei Supinsky . 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 . Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. I told Ruslan that I would not do that. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. 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 . 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. 264. According to him, the detainee was forced to imitate sexual intercourse and pretend to suck a penis. As the trial proceeded, more and more details emerged about what was going on inside the Tornado battalion itself. the insignia of the notorious rapists and murderers of the "Tornado" battalion. were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. 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. Immediately after the detention, they stripped the man down to his underwear, searched him, and hit him several times without finding anything. 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. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. 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. They stripped me naked - spread me by my arms and legs. The attack lasted only three minutes or so, but imagery posted online of the alleged aftermath reported a scene of devastation and scores . In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. 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.The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation:If this situation is not resolved today or tomorrow, it will be what it should be under the law. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . I was refused, there was regular verbal and physical harassment. He did well. The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. The philosophy is all like this. During . 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. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. He would show this video to half the battalion. The men screamed violently. 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. 2. Right Sector, and Tornado battalions . 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. Both are perverted maniacs. In turn, the men accused the Luhansk Oblast police chief Anatoly Naumenko (an authority in the Kiev controlled part of Luhansk) of running a protection racket for smuggling cast iron from rebel occupied territory . [5] The best known volunteer groups are Self-defence of Maidan, which has its own warehouses in Melitopol, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, and Army SOS, an initiative of former Euromaidan activists. The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. They justified their rail terrorism by citing "the struggle against smuggling, corruption and illegal arms trade". It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. And then he filmed this video. 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. It is reported by "Strana.ua" with reference to the ex-People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk. It turns out I was only left untouched because according to some criminal laws the hand that gives is not chopped off". After the brutal beating, he was in a painful condition and could not orientate himself in time, so he cannot clearly remember the sequence of events. 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." In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. The correspondence is stacked with a large number of relevant photographs.Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant. The ex-commander of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison - he spent seven years out of 11 in prison. 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. REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO (3) SPECIAL REPORT 5 UKRAINE MAVERICK BATTALIONS and bribes are still used for everything from 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. Azov Battalion is the most controversial of all the Ukrainian forces - espousing right wing ideology, showcasing Nazi symbols and focussing on white supremacist ideology. 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. Former prisoners told how in 2014 opponents of the Kyiv regime were kept and tortured at this base. Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. _____ "Tornado" is a national battalion that fell under the Ukrainian court for numerous atrocities on the territory of Ukraine.It was created by veterans of the ATO - the Shakhtersk national battalion disbanded due to looting and war crimes. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. The yelling, public threats and humiliation paralyzed the fighters. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group. 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).Since the beginning, the court was under enormous pressure from politicians, neo-Nazis and "brothers in arms". 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.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. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. 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 . It is the termination of the implementation of criminal actions.Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. The Obolonsky regional court of Kiev announced the sentences of militants of the "Tornado" battalion, which were accused of tortures, rapes, and the murders of civilians of Donbass. Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siardhttp://stalkerzone.org/victim-testimonies-against-ukrainian-tornado-battalion-eng-subs/Original video from: ht. 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. They tied him to a support (a sports tool), beat him with their hands and feet and with a plastic rod, poured water on him and tortured him with electric shocks, made him dance naked and sing songs to them, do push-ups off the floor and squat with a 24 kg yellow kettlebell. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access. 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. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. 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. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. 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 Tornado criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. And with Russian forces significantly tightening their siege of key Ukrainian cities in recent days, including concentrating about 21-22 battalion tactical groups around the capital Kyiv, it is . The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine formed the Tornado battalion in September 2014 on the basis of the personnel of the Shakhtersk national battalion disbanded due to looting and crimes against the population. 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. 22nd Territorial Defence Battalion "Kharkiv", General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 24th Territorial Defence Battalion "Aidar", 34th Territorial Defence Battalion "Batkivshchyna", 40th Territorial Defence Battalion "Kryvbas", 1st Independent Motorized Infantry Battalion, 2nd Independent Motorized Infantry Battalion, "Undeclared War: Putin's Covert Invasion of Eastern Ukraine", "Ukraine crisis: Why the U.S. isn't tougher on Russia", ">Territorial Defense Battalions (BTrO / BTD)", "Ukraine's volunteer battalions: The new model army", , , , , . If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. Robot. Until 23 March, armed members of the Tornado battalion brought various men to the basement, where they were systematically beaten, tortured with a field phone powered by a generator, stripped naked, placed on the concrete floor and poured water on them from plastic bottles. This odious battalion became famous for kidnapping and holding civilians in their own prison, torturing them and . All in all, I was kept in the basement for 17 days.. #Russia #Ukraine : Daniil Dashuk from #Belarus (ex-#Tornado Battalion member) released a new video.He can be seen with an AK-74 rifle (equipped . 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. justify the war crimes, committed by the Ukrainian units, by the state of war. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. According to former Tornado members, there was no hurry to officially recruit them, although Freeman promised that after the training they would be registered according to all the regulations.