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. The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front.In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as "ATO heroes" were being called criminals. The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters. 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? They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. 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. 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/. 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. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. Together, they are both collectively known as the Ukrainian volunteer battalions. They were personally loyal to the commander and ready to carry out any assignment. 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. 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. Tornado battalion (which actually was only a company) was created in 2014 in Zaporizhia and came under command of the Ministry of Interior.. It was winter. 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. 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. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion.The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. There has been scary rumours about their basements". 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. Moreover, one of the Tornado officers, threatening to kill the detainee, forced him to suck and lick a plastic pipe. A survivor of the torture by the Tornado fighters shows signs of torture with a blowtorch.2. To get rid of the defenders. 15 July 2022. 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. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. 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 . They immediately received an assault rifle and were trained by more experienced fighters. 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. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. Are you sure that is what they did? There would be no life without torture. It was found that 43 fighters of the Tornado battalion have criminal records, according to Ukrainian Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. 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). 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. And then he filmed this video. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines. (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . the insignia of the notorious rapists and murderers of the "Tornado" battalion. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. 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". Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret. 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. You can participate in the discussion within 24 hours after the publication of the article. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. To get rid of the defenders. 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 . Alexander Savitsky. Former prisoners told how in 2014 opponents of the Kyiv regime were kept and tortured at this base. 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. In the basement, the men were stripped naked, placed on a concrete floor, and doused with water. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them.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. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. 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. 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . The battalion commander hit us with a plastic pipe and organised our beatings. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. They justified their rail terrorism by citing "the struggle against smuggling, corruption and illegal arms trade". 2014 . 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. Immediately after the detention, they stripped the man down to his underwear, searched him, and hit him several times without finding anything. Then Ruslan Onishchenko told us to rape him. [5] These resources soon proved to be inadequate and numerous groups have helped to equip the battalions. When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. Meet Ukraine's "Tornado Battalion" Who filmed themselves raping BABIES in front of their mothers! He wrote out the roles and lines. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. Then they (Tornado members) used bare current-carrying wires to touch various parts of the prisoners bodies, such as the temples, the penis and the scrotum. Sputnik News. Published June 22, 2015 at 1:56 pm. Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. 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. Right Sector, and Tornado battalions . Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each. 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. 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 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. 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. They did a horrible thing to my son. This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured 4. The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. This was reported on the evening of April 7th by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. In mid-June, Ukrainian officials decided to disband one of these volunteer battalions. The discussion is closed. REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO (3) SPECIAL REPORT 5 UKRAINE MAVERICK BATTALIONS and bribes are still used for everything from He is on trial for molesting his own young children. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. This is what Moskal said on 112 Ukraine TV at the time: Danil Lyashuk, known as Mujahid, a member of the Tornado national battalion in Stanitsa Luganskaya. the conflict area in eastern Ukraine, among Ukrainian armed forces, civilians and members of the armed groups. The correspondence is stacked with a large number of relevant photographs.Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. 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. justify the war crimes, committed by the Ukrainian units, by the state of war. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. Freeman found all this amusing. The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. The action was part of a live-fire training exercise for new recruits on a recent morning outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. 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. 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. 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. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . 03/26/2022. The Tornado unit was formed in October 2014 as part of Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion. 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 . [15] By law, every oblast in Ukraine should create its own territorial defence battalions.[5]. 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. Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion 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.The Tornado criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. According to witnesses and leaks, Onishchenko, together with his team and other criminals involved, has formed a new battalion stationed near Kiev. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov Battalion . After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. The philosophy is all like this. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. They stripped me naked - spread me by my arms and legs. The leader of the notorious volunteer battalion of Tornado has been released, according to reports. . 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 were recruited officially. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. As the trial proceeded, more and more details emerged about what was going on inside the Tornado battalion itself. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . How could someone recruit a gang into a battalion? 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? Atrocities committed by the nationalist volunteer battalions during the Ukrainian conflicts have been well-documented by international human rights groups and . 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. . Azov Battalion is the most controversial of all the Ukrainian forces - espousing right wing ideology, showcasing Nazi symbols and focussing on white supremacist ideology. In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as. 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. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. "They were sent by the Interior Ministry. If they got killed, the Tornado had nothing to do with it they were not officially listed, just like the Blacks. 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. 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. At one point, the authorities threatened to send a thousand police officers to guard the courthouse during the trial against the Tornado fighters. 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. The attack lasted only three minutes or so, but imagery posted online of the alleged aftermath reported a scene of devastation and scores . The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. 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. 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. The Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. Nevertheless, "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. Ukrainian Minister of Interior Avakov visits patrol police training center in Lvov. They should not be confused with the volunteer units of Special Tasks Patrol Police of Ukraine created along with territorial defense battalions, but under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior. _____ "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. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. 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.. [3] It is unclear whether those airborne troops attempted an airdrop or air assault or drove down, possibly with the long convoy previously reported. "I have a creative proposal to our German friends. The court ruled to commute the sentence by releasing him from prison and imposing a probation period of three years. Between 17 and 23 March 2015, Tornado members systematically used the basement to beat male civilians. He also liked to paint swastikas and pagan symbols on the walls and talk about white supremacy. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. Tens of thousands of people in Europe marched to protest against the Wests military aid to Ukraine. 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. 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. 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. 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 . Photo by Alexander Rychkov. Yuri Shevchenko received a sentence of five years in prison. 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It was linked to the Shakhtersk volunteer battalion, which was disbanded for systematic looting. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed . less than five months after seizing power - the new Ukrainian authorities started infringing on people's rights to express their . "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. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. 2. 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). [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. By Interfax-Ukraine. 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. To prevent me from running away, they put metal handcuffs on my leg, which they attached to a 24 kg kettlebell. Before the invasion, the Ukrainian military had already begun an expansion process of the territorial defense forces in preparation of the Russian invasion. They say they want to defend their freedom. April 2022. If we refused to work, the Tornado members threatened to kill us. 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. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front. 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 one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. Written: 18:53, 27. 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