Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has offered Germany to transfer Tornado fighter jets planned for decommissioning to Ukraine. That is wrong".In response, one of the defendants started shouting: "Why are you so melodramatic? Things were getting so bad that they would go along the street, smash up all the houses, and take everything. Freeman found all this amusing. 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. 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 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/. One such battalion, dubbed "Tornado", was disbanded in December 2014 by Kiev following numerous reports of its crimes, but its members were never prosecuted, with many of them moving to other battalions. Former prisoners told how in 2014 opponents of the Kyiv regime were kept and tortured at this base. One photo shows Nazi graffiti left on a wall. If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. And forced the prisoners to do all this, and if they refused, they were beaten until they agreed. Then Ruslan Onishchenko told us to rape him. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. 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They put me in the basement An hour or two passed Onishchenko arrived and was glad they had brought me. 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. 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 . 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. Furthermore, I was forced to do humiliating chores every day, cleaning toilets, collecting cigarette butts, and so on. 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However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. The fighters could come into any house and take whatever they liked.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. Yuri Shevchenko received a sentence of five years in prison. Photo by Alexander Rychkov Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv has released from custody two former fighters of the Tornado Interior Ministry battalion Mykyta Kust and Maksym Hliebov, both of whom have been placed under . Tornado battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko received 11 years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. 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. "The Shakhtyorsk battalion, having fought beautifully at Ilovaisk, was disbanded by ministerial order because of repeated incidents of looting in Volnovakha and other instances". [4] These formations were subordinated to the Ministry of Defense. They pointed a machine gun at me and said they would shoot me", the victim said.In their conversation with the mother of the deceased Yurchenko, the battalion fighters in court behaved aggressively. "I have no desire to live. Tag: Tornado Battalion (Ukraine) Ukraine War. I told Ruslan that I would not do that. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. Immediately after the detention, they stripped the man down to his underwear, searched him, and hit him several times without finding anything. 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 . They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. "I have a creative proposal to our German friends. 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. A high-profile criminal case against members of the Tornado battalion is known from the reported cases of sexual violence against men. The ex-commander of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison - he spent seven years out of 11 in prison. 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. 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. "Rape, Torture, Robbery: Victim Testimonies Against Ukrainian Tornado Battalion (ENG SUBS)." Zone (blog), March 9, 2022. https://www.stalkerzone.org . They accounted for half of the battalion. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. Wounded Warriors Family Support Partners with Pathway Financial Education . In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. 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. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. They tried to make him confess to having detonated an explosion at a military checkpoint, which he did not do. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines.Among the released former fighters of the punitive battalion is Danil Lyashuk, known by his moniker "Mujahid". 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. Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. This perverted sadist, Mujahid, is currently at the front. 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. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During . "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. According to the investigation, members of Tornado installed a torture chamber on the first floor of a local school. 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). Reduction of five years in prison with the 'yes is yes' law for the man who raped and killed an 83-year-old woman, Pushilin: Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack in the Ugledar direction, Belgian Finance Ministry: Brussels freezes Russian assets worth 58 billion. Court and prosecutor's office staff members at one point began to walk into the trial with umbrellas.Rallies of support for the Tornadoes were held outside the court building and supporters threatened to take the building by storm. 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 neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. 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. 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. 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. If they got killed, the Tornado had nothing to do with it they were not officially listed, just like the Blacks. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. All those convicted fall under the Savchenko Law (one day in pre-trial detention counts as two days in prison). The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. In March 2014 acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov issued an order to create seven territorial defence battalions. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Onishchenko took a ski stick and hit me on the legs and genitals no less than 30 times, the witness said.The man said that after the beatings, he wanted to commit suicide. I did not want to live, so I ripped off a piece of rusty metal from the door and started to slit my wrists.*Photos:1. 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. "The Blacks were fighters who were not formally recruited because they had criminal records; Freeman actively recruited them into the Tornado. "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. If we refused to work, they threatened to shoot us. 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. Without my son. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. Court and prosecutor's office staff members at one point began to walk into the trial with umbrellas. 47. To get rid of the defenders. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated.Some of the Tornado men have personally confessed to having a tendency towards sadism, a predilection for torture. I do not know whether the military prosecutor's office knows this fact. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . 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. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. 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 . Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . Tornado's members were detained, placed in a pre-trial detention center. Tornado Battalion fighters training to help wounded soldiers at their base in Luhansk Oblast. [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. 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. 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". 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. 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