REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO (3) SPECIAL REPORT 5 UKRAINE MAVERICK BATTALIONS and bribes are still used for everything from Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret.The public learned about the crimes of the Shakhtyorsk battalion almost straight away. 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. In 2022 the Territorial Defense Forces were created as a successor of the old territorial defense battalions. The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. "The Blacks were fighters who were not formally recruited because they had criminal records; Freeman actively recruited them into the Tornado. The leader of the notorious volunteer battalion of Tornado has been released, according to reports. 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. Anatoly Plamadyal received a sentence of eight years in prison. In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as. separatists militias, mainly located in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic) and related conflicts onwards, i.e. [5] Battalions generally took their name from wherever most of their recruits were from. The Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. He made me jack him off The girl admitted that she had petitioned not to sleep in the same bed with Ruslan Onishchenko: I didn't ask to be put in a separate room, but at least in a separate bed. They promised to feed us three times a day and give us cigarettes. Published June 22, 2015 at 1:56 pm. Things were getting so bad that they would go along the street, smash up all the houses, and take everything. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. 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. 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. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. 2,654 Fans Like. 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This archive photo shows Ruslan Onishchenko, commander of the Tornado Battalion, with other Tornado fighters in Lysychansk. 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). The case itself was reported to consist of 86 volumes. 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 members themselves did not accept this decision. Theoretically, the TDF could field up to 150 battalions. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. 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 . The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. #Ukraine: Today Ruslan Onishchenko, the commander of the Neo-Nazi Tornado battalion, was released from prison by the Zelensky regime, alongside thousands of other criminals.Onishchenko was previously condemned to 10 years imprisonment for rape, torture and murder of civilians. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. 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. 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. Tornado's members were detained, placed in a pre-trial detention center. Alexander Savitsky. To get rid of the defenders. 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. This was reported on the evening of April 7th by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The court ruled to commute the sentence by releasing him from prison and imposing a probation period of three years. "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. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. 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? Meet Ukraine's "Tornado Battalion" Who filmed themselves raping BABIES in front of their mothers! In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. 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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. 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. 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. Do you think I am lying? 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.On 17 June 2015, eight members of the battalion, including battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained. 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. They immediately received an assault rifle and were trained by more experienced fighters. At one point, the authorities threatened to send a thousand police officers to guard the courthouse during the trial against the Tornado fighters.As the trial proceeded, more and more details emerged about what was going on inside the Tornado battalion itself. Whichever one you like, the code does not define it as an assault. 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). It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. I do not know whether the military prosecutor's office knows this fact. As stated earlier, the court was under enormous pressure. Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has offered Germany to transfer Tornado fighter jets planned for decommissioning to Ukraine. 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.A high-profile criminal case against members of the Tornado battalion is known from the reported cases of sexual violence against men. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. If we refused to work, the Tornado members threatened to kill us. Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed . The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. 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Among the released former fighters of the punitive battalion is Danil Lyashuk, known by his moniker "Mujahid". "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. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. Former prisoners told how in 2014 opponents of the Kyiv regime were kept and tortured at this base. Does Nol Le Grat still have a chance to return to the helm of the FFF? 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. After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. Before the invasion, the Ukrainian military had already begun an expansion process of the territorial defense forces in preparation of the Russian invasion. 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 . April 10, 2017 08:46 GMT. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. They sit in that cage and laugh. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested Tornado commander Ruslan Onischenko and seven other fighters from the battalion and charged them of conducting violent crimes in Lugansk Region. 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. 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. . 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". One photo shows Nazi graffiti left on a wall. The yelling, public threats and humiliation paralyzed the fighters. They put me in the basement An hour or two passed Onishchenko arrived and was glad they had brought me. Between 17 and 23 March 2015, Tornado members systematically used the basement to beat male civilians. The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters. The men screamed violently. 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 opening stages of the war in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian military and police forces were largely ineffective in separatist areas, often surrendering equipment or overwhelmed in cities by large crowds of civilians. 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 . 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. 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. 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Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . 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. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them. If they got killed, the Tornado had nothing to do with it they were not officially listed, just like the Blacks. Its commander and 12 other battalion's militants were . The men were also subjected to torture with an object similar to an electric generator. Was Turkey's Earthquake Really Caused by a 'Super Space Weapon'? Right Sector, and Tornado battalions . In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election several members of the battalions were elected into the Ukrainian parliament. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion. were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. The eyewitness revealed this during the closed court sessions on August 2, 2016. . 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 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. This perverted sadist, Mujahid, is currently at the front. 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . There would be no life without torture. The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation: Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. 2014 . (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . Fast forward to 2022. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . Written: 18:53, 27. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. They were simply abducted, used as slaves, abused, and some were killed, the newspaper quoted former Tornado fighters and testimony from civilians:Sometimes we were more afraid of them than the shelling. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. The SNA and the Patriot of Ukraine, together with Svoboda and . KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutors and defense lawyers have both vowed to appeal the verdicts and prison sentences . Following the discontinuation of Special Operations Militia Battalion Shakhtarsk (which had been created at the initiative of the member of parliament Oleh Liashko and fought near Ilovaisk), Ministry of Interior detachment Saint . 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. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. , 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", . He is on trial for molesting his own young children. 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. He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. Sputnik News. In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. Signs of torture inflicted on victims by members of the Tornado national battalionJournalists from various media outlets with different viewpoints collected the evidence. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. All those convicted fall under the Savchenko Law (one day in pre-trial detention counts as two days in prison). The yelling, public threats and humiliation paralyzed the fighters.After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating.Among the Tornado members who came to their senses, there were some who dared to escape. But there was an unusual element to the event. 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