264. 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. 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. It is reported by "Strana.ua" with reference to the ex-People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk. The deputy minister tweeted a "creative proposal" he had for the aircraft that are planned to be replaced by the F-35 fighter jets. 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. All in all, I was kept in the basement for 17 days.. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. For instance, members of "tornado" battalion accused of kidnappings, tor-ture and rape, denied their responsibility, claiming that they had kept in the places of detention ("in basements") only the "separatists"3. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. The Tornado unit was formed in October 2014 as part of Ukrainian Interior Ministry. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. Immediately after the detention, they stripped the man down to his underwear, searched him, and hit him several times without finding anything.The elderly man was put in the basement, where there were eight other people besides him. "The Blacks were fighters who were not formally recruited because they had criminal records; Freeman actively recruited them into the Tornado. The discussion is closed. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example. [5] The best known volunteer groups are Self-defence of Maidan, which has its own warehouses in Melitopol, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, and Army SOS, an initiative of former Euromaidan activists. The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . 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. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov Battalion . Volodymyr Savanchuk, a volunteer, is now also on trial. Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios said Commander of the battalion Onishchenko - has five previous convictions -created a criminal gang in the town of Privolye and incited his officers to grave crimes. Freeman found all this amusing. Among the Tornado members who came to their senses, there were some who dared to escape. 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. He would show this video to half the battalion. The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. In a key test of Ukraine's justice system, a Kiev court in April imprisoned former members of the disbanded, pro-Ukrainian "Tornado battalion" for torturing and sexually assaulting civilians in . If they got killed, the Tornado had nothing to do with it they were not officially listed, just like the Blacks. I told Ruslan that I would not do that. 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. KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. 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. Atrocities committed by the nationalist volunteer battalions during the Ukrainian conflicts have been well-documented by international human rights groups and . 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. The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation: Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. 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. 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 next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion.The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. 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. 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front. 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, . 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. 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 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. 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. And then he filmed this video. That is wrong".In response, one of the defendants started shouting: "Why are you so melodramatic? The Ukrainian far and fascistic right was then mobilised in 2013-14 to overthrow the more pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. Photo by Alexander Rychkov. 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. They promised to feed us three times a day and give us cigarettes. "They were sent by the Interior Ministry. 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 yelling, public threats and humiliation paralyzed the fighters. During the fight against the "separatists", almost every resident of the settlement went through the illegal detention facilities organised by the Tornado battalion members. 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. Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has offered Germany to transfer Tornado fighter jets planned for decommissioning to Ukraine. The men screamed violently. 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. 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. Here are just some of the charges the Tornado fighters were tried on: There are no charges under the article murder among those listed. 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? Was Turkey's Earthquake Really Caused by a 'Super Space Weapon'? Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. Ollie. They were recruited officially. 03/26/2022. 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. 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. 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. 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 . 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. Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . 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. 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. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines. They accounted for half of the battalion. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated. Much of the correspondence, which has been going on for months, is devoted to discussing sexual orgies involving Onishchenko and Savanchuk's wives, and often the Savanchukes' children boys aged four and nine. This perverted sadist, Mujahid, is currently at the front. 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. 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. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. [3] It is unclear whether those airborne troops attempted an airdrop or air assault or drove down, possibly with the long convoy previously reported. The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters. Azov Battalion is the most controversial of all the Ukrainian forces - espousing right wing ideology, showcasing Nazi symbols and focussing on white supremacist ideology. The battalion commander hit us with a plastic pipe and organised our beatings. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. "He forced me to share a room with him. 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. 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 . Tornado battalion (which actually was only a company) was created in 2014 in Zaporizhia and came under command of the Ministry of Interior.. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. 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/. SHARES. 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. 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. He is on trial for molesting his own young children. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. 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 . KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutors and defense lawyers have both vowed to appeal the verdicts and prison sentences . You can call it a disarmament operation. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured 4. Whichever one you like, the code does not define it as an assault. 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. NEO-NAZI militias in Ukraine are preparing for all-out war with Russia as they arm themselves for the fight against Vladimir Putin's forces. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. 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.. [31] In social media statements by the TDF, several previously unseen battalion numbers (some exceeding the theoretical 150 number), such as the 103rd,[32] 124th,[33] 130th,[34] 251st [35] etc. That's fair, says Onishchenko. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. 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. . 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 . 15 July 2022. They were recruited officially.The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. Fast forward to 2022. In addition, he was in the basement in darkness and could not observe the change of day and night. ( ) . The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. Both are perverted maniacs. One photo shows Nazi graffiti left on a wall. At one point, the authorities threatened to send a thousand police officers to guard the courthouse during the trial against the Tornado fighters. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. On 17 June 2015, eight members of the battalion, including battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained. 2014 . He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. 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. Members of the so-called "Tornado squadron" are suspected of looting, rape, torture, and murder. But there was an unusual element to the event. Four . In the basement, the men were stripped naked, placed on a concrete floor, and doused with water. In one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him. If we refused to work, the Tornado members threatened to kill us. It turns out I was only left untouched because according to some criminal laws the hand that gives is not chopped off". 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. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. . Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. Many agreed and came.The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters.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. Court and prosecutor's office staff members at one point began to walk into the trial with umbrellas. Already during the trial in the summer of 2015, some of the authorities were indignant and perplexed: how is it that criminals . Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group.The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. 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. The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. Tag: Tornado Battalion (Ukraine) Ukraine War. In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as. 47. . the insignia of the notorious rapists and murderers of the "Tornado" battalion. Tornado Battalion fighters training to help wounded soldiers at their base in Luhansk Oblast. Tornado battalion soldiers to be redeployed. Since the 2014 intervention in Ukraine by Russian forces and proxy forces (i.e. Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siardhttp://stalkerzone.org/victim-testimonies-against-ukrainian-tornado-battalion-eng-subs/Original video from: ht. less than five months after seizing power - the new Ukrainian authorities started infringing on people's rights to express their . 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. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. Units. Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. To get rid of the defenders. Both are perverted maniacs.There would be no life without torture. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. How could someone recruit a gang into a battalion? The now-famed Ukrainian defendersmostly members of marine and Azov Battalion unitswere increasingly confined to the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, which would become the last bastion of . 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. The legal counsels and the Tornado members themselves used this catch. They tried to make him confess to having detonated an explosion at a military checkpoint, which he did not do. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. The eyewitness revealed this during the closed court sessions on August 2, 2016. . 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. [15] By law, every oblast in Ukraine should create its own territorial defence battalions.[5]. Federalist and pro-Russian insurgents quickly gained large swaths of territory. The philosophy is all like this. 32 volunteer territorial defence battalions were formed. 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. Moreover, according to the known information, there were fewer violations like this in "ideological" formations, such as Azov or the Ukrainian Right Sector Volunteer Corps, than in the "ordinary ones" (for example, the infamous battalion Tornado).It seems that the SBU (The Security Service of Ukraine) was the biggest human rights . The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. To get rid of the defenders. It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. [5] Battalions generally took their name from wherever most of their recruits were from. There would be no life without torture. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov personally disbanded Shakhtyorsk. This archive photo shows Ruslan Onishchenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion, with other Tornado fighters in Lysychansk. If we refused to work, they threatened to shoot us. Access to the chat has been blocked for violating the. Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. Nevertheless, 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). Are you sure that is what they did? In March 2014 acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov issued an order to create seven territorial defence battalions. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. I do not know whether the military prosecutor's office knows this fact. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. According to him, the detainee was forced to imitate sexual intercourse and pretend to suck a penis. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. 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. According to its data, the former commander of the disbanded company of . 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. They put me in the basement An hour or two passed Onishchenko arrived and was glad they had brought me. He also liked to paint swastikas and pagan symbols on the walls and talk about white supremacy. By August 2014 over 5,600 volunteers had joined defence battalions across Ukraine and about 7,000 volunteers had joined by the end of September.[22][23]. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. Members of Ukraine's . Tornado's members were detained, placed in a pre-trial detention center. By Interfax-Ukraine. 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. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . justify the war crimes, committed by the Ukrainian units, by the state of war. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. 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. 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. This special project was launched to shed light on what has happened in Donbass over the past eight years, with the aim to show not only episodes of crimes by the Kiev regime against the civilian population, but also to explore the roots of the disaster occurring in the region. The elderly man was put in the basement, where there were eight other people besides him. 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