Written: 18:53, 27. After a while, a man, holding a grey plastic pipe, came in and started hitting the detainees present on their buttocks and thighs. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines. 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. note Sputnik).What Exactly Were the Tornado Fighters Accused of?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 Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. There would be no life without torture. 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. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. Many agreed and came. It was found that 43 fighters of the Tornado battalion have criminal records, according to Ukrainian Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. 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. They pointed a machine gun at me and said they would shoot me", the victim said.In their conversation with the mother of the deceased Yurchenko, the battalion fighters in court behaved aggressively. "I have no desire to live. The Ukrainians and the Azov regiment have been doing an excellent job of 'de-nazifying' Ukraine. 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. 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How could someone recruit a gang into a battalion? In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. 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 ex-commander of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison - he spent seven years out of 11 in prison. The case, consisting of 80 volumes, was considered for almost two years with the participation of 111 witnesses and 13 victims. 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. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. I told Ruslan that I would not do that. The Ukrainian nationalist battalion called Tornado was disbanded in 2014. This was in 2016. 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 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. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. Federalist and pro-Russian insurgents quickly gained large swaths of territory. 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. 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. [15] By law, every oblast in Ukraine should create its own territorial defence battalions.[5]. Sputnik News. There has been scary rumours about their basements".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.How the Court ProceededWhen 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. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. Court and prosecutor's office staff members at one point began to walk into the trial with umbrellas.Rallies of support for the Tornadoes were held outside the court building and supporters threatened to take the building by storm. 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. A survivor of the torture by the Tornado fighters shows signs of torture with a blowtorch.2. If they got killed, the Tornado had nothing to do with it they were not officially listed, just like the Blacks.If you joined the battalion, it was virtually impossible to leave. 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. If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. In addition, he was in the basement in darkness and could not observe the change of day and night. Already during the trial in the summer of 2015, some of the authorities were indignant and perplexed: how is it that criminals . Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. It is the termination of the implementation of criminal actions.Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. And forced the prisoners to do all this, and if they refused, they were beaten until they agreed. Meet Ukraine's "Tornado Battalion" Who filmed themselves raping BABIES in front of their mothers! ( ) . 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.Tornado's members were detained, placed in a pre-trial detention center. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. 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 . 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. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed . The deputy minister tweeted a "creative proposal" he had for the aircraft that are planned to be replaced by the F-35 fighter jets. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. Was Turkey's Earthquake Really Caused by a 'Super Space Weapon'? It was winter. The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. He also liked to paint swastikas and pagan symbols on the walls and talk about white supremacy. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. The men were also subjected to torture with an object similar to an electric generator. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. 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 . [4] These formations were subordinated to the Ministry of Defense. I do not know whether the military prosecutor's office knows this fact. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant. 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. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . 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. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. 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. (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . 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Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . 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. . Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. 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? In 2022 the Territorial Defense Forces were created as a successor of the old territorial defense battalions. 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 . 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. 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. Remember when Zelensky said he would release prisoners with . 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 Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion. To get rid of the defenders. The philosophy is all like this. #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. 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. . 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. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. 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 detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. Whichever one you like, the code does not define it as an assault. The battalion commander hit us with a plastic pipe and organised our beatings. 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. 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. _____ "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. Former prisoners told how in 2014 opponents of the Kyiv regime were kept and tortured at this base. 2014 . Rallies of support for the Tornadoes were held outside the court building and supporters threatened to take the building by storm. "A dozen fighters stole a young girl and raped her for 10 days until the child died. Court and prosecutor's office staff members at one point began to walk into the trial with umbrellas. They sit in that cage and laugh. According to its data, the former commander of the disbanded company of . However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. Tornado was linked to the disbanded Shakhtersk battalion, which was accused of staging systematic looting. 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). It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial.At one point, the campaign to protect these Heroes of ATO in the press and on social media gained such momentum that Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios decided to reveal the atrocities of the Tornado fighters live on 112 Ukraine TV.The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015.From around 17.03.2015 to 23.03.2015, members of the Tornado battalion, I am sure of it, regularly brought various men to the basement, who were systematically beaten. Tornado battalion soldiers to be redeployed. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example.According to witnesses and leaks, Onishchenko, together with his team and other criminals involved, has formed a new battalion stationed near Kiev. 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 battalions receive basic resources and weapons from the Interior Ministry or the Ministry of Defence. The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. Yuri Shevchenko received a sentence of five years in prison. Nevertheless, A high-profile criminal case against members of the Tornado battalion is known from the reported cases of sexual violence against men. "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. This archive photo shows Ruslan Onishchenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion, with other Tornado fighters in Lysychansk. The 'Tornado battalion' used rape and torture as weapons of war a war Zelenskyy's government has been waging against the people of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ruslan Onyshchenko, the commander of the Tornado Volunteer Battalion of the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior and seven of his men were arrested on June 17 accused of rape and torture. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. The Tornado battalion itself was born out of the remains of the fascist Shakhtarsk battalion, which was disbanded after its members were accused of human . Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret. According to him, the detainee was forced to imitate sexual intercourse and pretend to suck a penis. "Rape, Torture, Robbery: Victim Testimonies Against Ukrainian Tornado Battalion (ENG SUBS)." Zone (blog), March 9, 2022. https://www.stalkerzone.org . 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/. 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 . 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 . He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. "They were sent by the Interior Ministry. 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. It is reported by "Strana.ua" with reference to the ex-People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. 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