As stated earlier, the court was under enormous pressure. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 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. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. They were recruited officially.The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. 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. . Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election several members of the battalions were elected into the Ukrainian parliament. The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front. 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 . note Sputnik). However, the Ukrainian government was in for a surprise when it realized it did not have the authority to control these battalions after all. That's fair, says Onishchenko. 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). After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. Some of the Tornado men have personally confessed to having a tendency towards sadism, a predilection for torture. 107 Followers Follow. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. Federalist and pro-Russian insurgents quickly gained large swaths of territory. 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. Was Turkey's Earthquake Really Caused by a 'Super Space Weapon'? Several armed volunteer militia groups are taking part in Ukraine's "Anti-Terrorist Operation," the government's fight against separatists in the east of the country. #Russia #Ukraine : Daniil Dashuk from #Belarus (ex-#Tornado Battalion member) released a new video.He can be seen with an AK-74 rifle (equipped . #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. This was reported on the evening of April 7th by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. 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 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 . Right Sector, and Tornado battalions . 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. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access. It is reported by "Strana.ua" with reference to the ex-People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . Near Kiev detained "Mojahed" - the most bloodthirsty fighter units "Tornado". If we refused to work, the Tornado members threatened to kill us. 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. In the last week of March, I stood on a central Donetsk main street next to two of the impact points of a Ukrainian missile attack that had killed 21 civilians and injured nearly 40 more on March 14. . 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. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. In one of their recently released videos, Daniil Lyashuk, a former militant of the Ukrainian battalion Tornado, nicknamed Mujahid, who had previously been sentenced to 10 years in prison for war crimes in the Donbass, cheered his freedom and issued more threats against Russians. 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. Former prisoners told how in 2014 opponents of the Kyiv regime were kept and tortured at this base. Both are perverted maniacs.There would be no life without torture. 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. KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. 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. KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutors and defense lawyers have both vowed to appeal the verdicts and prison sentences . Between 17 and 23 March 2015, Tornado members systematically used the basement to beat male civilians. In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. When the stun guns discharged, they told me and one other person to stand up. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. Ruslan Onishchenko, the former commander of the notorious Ukrainian Tornado battalion whose fighters were convicted of torturing people in Donbass, has been released from jail and may join the fight against Russia. Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. 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. 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. The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. "They were sent by the Interior Ministry. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. "I had to take a morally difficult decision: under martial law, combatants - Ukrainians with real combat experience - will be released from detention and will be able to redeem themselves", Zelensky said in a video message posted on Telegram. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed . The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation: Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. As the trial proceeded, more and more details emerged about what was going on inside the Tornado battalion itself. 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 battalion commander hit us with a plastic pipe and organised our beatings. This perverted sadist, Mujahid, is currently at the front. 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. 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? The Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. 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. That is wrong".In response, one of the defendants started shouting: "Why are you so melodramatic? 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. They did a horrible thing to my son. 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. In addition, he was in the basement in darkness and could not observe the change of day and night. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example. 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 . Sputnik News. The Ukrainians and the Azov regiment have been doing an excellent job of 'de-nazifying' Ukraine. Rallies of support for the Tornadoes were held outside the court building and supporters threatened to take the building by storm. Most of the citizens who experienced the so-called "mop-up" refused to describe their stories in writing, fearing for their safety. "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.The case file contains correspondence, including photos** seized during the arrest from the phone of Tornado commander Onishchenko. 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. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. The Ukrainian nationalist battalion called Tornado was disbanded in 2014. 2. 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. However, neither the names of the generals who smuggled weapons into the LPR and DPR, nor any evidence were provided by the Tornado members, either during the trial or afterwards. Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. Here is a video of the 'lineup' that Onishchenko, a battalion commander and repeated criminal, held for those who were disillusioned and wanted to leave the Tornado. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion. 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. 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. The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015. This was in 2016. Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant. During . 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). But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. 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. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. 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. They justified their rail terrorism by citing "the struggle against smuggling, corruption and illegal arms trade". They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. 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. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. Written: 18:53, 27. 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. This archive photo shows Ruslan Onishchenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion, with other Tornado fighters in Lysychansk. 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. They say they want to defend their freedom. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion.The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. Since the 2014 intervention in Ukraine by Russian forces and proxy forces (i.e. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. 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. Furthermore, I was forced to do humiliating chores every day, cleaning toilets, collecting cigarette butts, and so on. Its commander and 12 other battalion's militants were . According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. 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. The correspondence is stacked with a large number of relevant photographs.Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. . During the fight against the "separatists", almost every resident of the settlement went through the illegal detention facilities organised by the Tornado battalion members. The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. 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. The SNA and the Patriot of Ukraine, together with Svoboda and . A high-profile criminal case against members of the Tornado battalion is known from the reported cases of sexual violence against men. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. 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 the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as. President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov Battalion . The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . On top of these acts of cruelty, Tornado battalion members have boasted of extreme sexual violence, including the rape of small children.It was the unit's penchant for perversion that likely prompted the June 2015 Interior Ministry order to disband them.. Then Ruslan Onishchenko told us to rape him. He wrote out the roles and lines. 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