Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . 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. Are you sure that is what they did? 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. Tornado battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko received 11 years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. SHARES. 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 . They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. A survivor of the torture by the Tornado fighters shows signs of torture with a blowtorch.2. KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutors and defense lawyers have both vowed to appeal the verdicts and prison sentences . 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. "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. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. Both are perverted maniacs. President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov Battalion . It shows his communication with Ukrainian volunteer Volodymyr Savanchuk and his wife Svetlana. The detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. In 2022 the Territorial Defense Forces were created as a successor of the old territorial defense battalions. They immediately received an assault rifle and were trained by more experienced fighters. The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. 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. In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. And then he filmed this video. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. They did not talk to me and did not explain the reason for my detention. People live so poor there, anyone who has been to Stanitsa Luganskaya knows that it reminds of Stalingrad because everything is smashed and bombed, they took away juice from a 10-month-old baby; I have no words to describe that". They put me in the basement An hour or two passed Onishchenko arrived and was glad they had brought me. [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. 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. Access to the chat has been blocked for violating the. He is on trial for molesting his own young children. 1,127 Subscribers Subscribe. In one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him. 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. "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. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . It was found that 43 fighters of the Tornado battalion have criminal records, according to Ukrainian Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. 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. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access.In one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him.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. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. Tornado was linked to the disbanded Shakhtersk battalion, which was accused of staging systematic looting. As the trial proceeded, more and more details emerged about what was going on inside the Tornado battalion itself. 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. He did well. "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. 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 . April 10, 2017 08:46 GMT. Alexander Savitsky. 2. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. 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. To prevent me from running away, they put metal handcuffs on my leg, which they attached to a 24 kg kettlebell. To get rid of the defenders. The ex-commander of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison - he spent seven years out of 11 in prison. Wounded Warriors Family Support Partners with Pathway Financial Education . He wrote out the roles and lines. The case, consisting of 80 volumes, was considered for almost two years with the participation of 111 witnesses and 13 victims. 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. One photo shows Nazi graffiti left on a wall. 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. It was winter. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. 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 . He is on trial for molesting his own young children. 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. In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. According to witnesses and leaks, Onishchenko, together with his team and other criminals involved, has formed a new battalion stationed near Kiev. Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in February 2014 and the War on Donbass since April 2014, several military formations have appeared. 2014 . After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. 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. The Special Police Forces (Ukrainian: ) is a Ukrainian volunteer corps of law enforcement units, part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. 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. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion. They accounted for half of the battalion. 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. It turns out I was only left untouched because according to some criminal laws the hand that gives is not chopped off". 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. 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. 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). 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. , c , , , . , , 454/2014 , "In Nikolaev create the armed battalion of territorial self-defence for situation deduction in the region", "Promised Remedies Transformation 34 Battalion territorial defence", . Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. Breaking News: Ukrainian Militants Attack Village in Russia's Bryansk Region, Governor Says, https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e6/04/15/1094946339_76:0:525:337_1920x0_80_0_0_f96c19e0a23c95831325c0bba93a1c83.jpg.webp. Do you think I am lying? 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, . (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . 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. The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. The battalions were established in mid-2014, during the early stages of the war in Donbas, to combat the pro-Russian separatists[1][2][3] and the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, and the United Armed Forces of Novorossiya. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov personally disbanded Shakhtyorsk. 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. 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. He would show this video to half the battalion. Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion.The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. 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. Most of the citizens who experienced the so-called "mop-up" refused to describe their stories in writing, fearing for their safety. 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 the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. Afterwards, by rotating the metal handle of the telephone, bare wires were pressed against various parts of the body. 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. Without my son. Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. 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. less than five months after seizing power - the new Ukrainian authorities started infringing on people's rights to express their . I told Ruslan that I would not do that. When the stun guns discharged, they told me and one other person to stand up. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. After a while, a man, holding a grey plastic pipe, came in and started hitting the detainees present on their buttocks and thighs. The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015. In 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. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. 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. They did a horrible thing to my son. 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