justify the war crimes, committed by the Ukrainian units, by the state of war. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. 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. 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. The court ruled to commute the sentence by releasing him from prison and imposing a probation period of three years. Well, they physically abused me, kept me in the role of a servant". 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. Both are perverted maniacs.There would be no life without torture. 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. 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. When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. They were recruited officially. Ukrainian officials say one video shows a re-enactment of how members of Tornado forced two captives to rape another man; they also say some 40 members of the battalion have criminal records. Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siardhttp://stalkerzone.org/victim-testimonies-against-ukrainian-tornado-battalion-eng-subs/Original video from: ht. It shows his communication with Ukrainian volunteer Volodymyr Savanchuk and his wife Svetlana. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. Most of the citizens who experienced the so-called "mop-up" refused to describe their stories in writing, fearing for their safety. As the trial proceeded, more and more details emerged about what was going on inside the Tornado battalion itself. DISCLOSURE: Sourced from Russian government funded media "Remembering the past to understand the present, a reminder from 2016 with some sick videos.so take care: Southfront: The Tornado battalion crimes case is a criminal case opened in connection with numerous grave crimes committed by the personnel of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion Tornado during the armed conflict in Donbas. 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. 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. Its commander and 12 other battalion's militants were . They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. Nikolai Tsukur received nine years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. Later, SBU officers deceived Mr M. by promising to exchange him for the UAF fighters who were being held captive by illegal armed groups, and forced him to testify about his involvement in terrorist activities. 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 . Tornado was linked to the disbanded Shakhtersk battalion, which was accused of staging systematic looting. In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. Telegram messages seen by The Sun Online show how the extreme far-right Azov Battalion are carrying out military-style drills and pledging to fight to the death. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. 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. Together, they are both collectively known as the Ukrainian volunteer battalions. The detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. 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". [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. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . During the fight against the "separatists", almost every resident of the settlement went through the illegal detention facilities organised by the Tornado battalion members. #Russia #Ukraine : Daniil Dashuk from #Belarus (ex-#Tornado Battalion member) released a new video.He can be seen with an AK-74 rifle (equipped . This archive photo shows Ruslan Onishchenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion, with other Tornado fighters in Lysychansk. 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 ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. The philosophy is all like this. Territorial defence battalions (Ukrainian: , romanized:Bataliony terytorialnoi oborony) were volunteer military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the auspices of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence in 20142015. 03/26/2022. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. note Sputnik). Federalist and pro-Russian insurgents quickly gained large swaths of territory. 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. "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 victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. 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 . Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. 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 . It was found that 43 fighters of the Tornado battalion have criminal records, according to Ukrainian Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. A survivor of the torture by the Tornado fighters shows signs of torture with a blowtorch.2. The correspondence is stacked with a large number of relevant photographs. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . 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. Court and prosecutor's office staff members at one point began to walk into the trial with umbrellas. 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 . 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. . 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. 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? Some members of the national battalion have been accused of paedophilia.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. Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each. 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. Tornado battalion (which actually was only a company) was created in 2014 in Zaporizhia and came under command of the Ministry of Interior.. 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, . 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. ( ) . Since the 2014 intervention in Ukraine by Russian forces and proxy forces (i.e. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. And forced the prisoners to do all this, and if they refused, they were beaten until they agreed. The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. The Tornado criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. To get rid of the defenders. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. 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. 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). Latest Veterans News. 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 accounted for half of the battalion. 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. Nevertheless, 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). Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. Near Kiev detained "Mojahed" - the most bloodthirsty fighter units "Tornado". They did a horrible thing to my son. The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. 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. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. Then Ruslan Onishchenko told us to rape him. 15 July 2022. 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. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. Among the released former fighters of the punitive battalion is Danil Lyashuk, known by his moniker "Mujahid". There would be no life without torture. 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.What Criminal Charges Did the Tornado Fighters Face?Here are just some of the charges the Tornado fighters were tried on:There are no charges under the article murder among those listed. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. 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. Ukrainian Minister of Interior Avakov visits patrol police training center in Lvov. The legal counsels and the Tornado members themselves used this catch. Who are Tornado troops? 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/. The leader of the notorious volunteer battalion of Tornado has been released, according to reports. 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. It was winter. 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). were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. He wrote out the roles and lines. 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. [3] It is unclear whether those airborne troops attempted an airdrop or air assault or drove down, possibly with the long convoy previously reported. "A dozen fighters stole a young girl and raped her for 10 days until the child died. In the basement, the men were stripped naked, placed on a concrete floor, and doused with water. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters. 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. Signs of torture inflicted on victims by members of the Tornado national battalionJournalists from various media outlets with different viewpoints collected the evidence. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Members of the Ukrainian National Guard's Azov Battalion and the far-right radical group Right Sector take part in a rally in Kiev on October 14, 2016. . 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. Furthermore, I was forced to do humiliating chores every day, cleaning toilets, collecting cigarette butts, and so on. 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. 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. Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in February 2014 and the War on Donbass since April 2014, several military formations have appeared. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. 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. 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