SHARES. [4] These formations were subordinated to the Ministry of Defense. Atrocities committed by the nationalist volunteer battalions during the Ukrainian conflicts have been well-documented by international human rights groups and . They were personally loyal to the commander and ready to carry out any assignment. Tornado battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko received 11 years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. The battalion commander hit us with a plastic pipe and organised our beatings. In addition, he was in the basement in darkness and could not observe the change of day and night. Its commander and 12 other battalion's militants were . Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each. They put me in the basement An hour or two passed Onishchenko arrived and was glad they had brought me. The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. 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 . According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. Theoretically, the TDF could field up to 150 battalions. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured 4. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. I was refused, there was regular verbal and physical harassment. 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. 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. 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. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. 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. 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. In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. Here are just some of the charges the Tornado fighters were tried on: There are no charges under the article murder among those listed. 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. 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. "Rape, Torture, Robbery: Victim Testimonies Against Ukrainian Tornado Battalion (ENG SUBS)." Zone (blog), March 9, 2022. https://www.stalkerzone.org . Furthermore, I was forced to do humiliating chores every day, cleaning toilets, collecting cigarette butts, and so on. less than five months after seizing power - the new Ukrainian authorities started infringing on people's rights to express their . 264. "The Shakhtyorsk battalion, having fought beautifully at Ilovaisk, was disbanded by ministerial order because of repeated incidents of looting in Volnovakha and other instances". The case, consisting of 80 volumes, was considered for almost two years with the participation of 111 witnesses and 13 victims. One photo shows Nazi graffiti left on a wall. Written: 18:53, 27. 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. 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. 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. In mid-June, Ukrainian officials decided to disband one of these volunteer battalions. Onishchenko was taken into custody for 11 years, another 11 fighters - for terms ranging from 5-10 . 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 . 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, . 1,127 Subscribers Subscribe. 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). 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. 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. 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. He is on trial for molesting his own young children. Nevertheless, the formation of the new national battalion was not kept secret. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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. 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. 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. The Ukrainian nationalist battalion called Tornado was disbanded in 2014. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. Tag: Tornado Battalion (Ukraine) Ukraine War. Tornado Battalion fighters training to help wounded soldiers at their base in Luhansk Oblast. 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]. Two Tornado members recorded the process I mentioned on mobile phones". The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. After two years, the situation in the east of Ukraine remains volatile and may develop into a 'frozen conflict', creating a protracted environment of insecurity He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. "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. "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. 11 September 2015. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. On 17 June 2015, eight members of the battalion, including battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained. 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. But there was an unusual element to the event. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example. Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. 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 told Ruslan that I would not do that. 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. 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. In particular, Matios said, in the local school basement where they . The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. 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. 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. For example, when a Novaya Gazeta* correspondent talked to both residents of Lugansk region and former Tornado fighters, he discovered a rather unambiguous picture ("The Tornado Effect", an article from 17 October 2016).Gradually it became clear to us that all those 'separatists' in the basements that Freeman (Onishchenko) and his people told us about were simple drunks and workers from Severodonetsk and the surrounding towns and cities but not militants of any kind. When the stun guns discharged, they told me and one other person to stand up. "They were sent by the Interior Ministry. Meet Ukraine's "Tornado Battalion" Who filmed themselves raping BABIES in front of their mothers! #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 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 neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. Wounded Warriors Family Support Partners with Pathway Financial Education . However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines. The case itself was reported to consist of 86 volumes. How could someone recruit a gang into a battalion? The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. It shows his communication with Ukrainian volunteer Volodymyr Savanchuk and his wife Svetlana. They did not talk to me and did not explain the reason for my detention. On February 23, the Russian defense ministry claimed that Ukrainian armed forces were planning a provocation against the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria "with the involvement of the nationalist Azov battalion." The ministry added that Ukraine plans to stage an attack by Russian forces in Transnistria as a "pretext to invade." #Russia #Ukraine : Daniil Dashuk from #Belarus (ex-#Tornado Battalion member) released a new video.He can be seen with an AK-74 rifle (equipped . In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. 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.The crimes of another notorious voluntary battalion, "Aidar", were investigated, documented, and exposed by the Amnesty International non-profit. 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. Ukrainian Minister of Interior Avakov visits patrol police training center in Lvov. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated. 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. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access. The officers in question consumed marijuana about six or seven times in our presence by consuming it through a makeshift water bong.The Protocol II:The Protocol III:The Protocol IV:The Kharkov Human Rights Protection Group ReportMost of the citizens who experienced the so-called "mop-up" refused to describe their stories in writing, fearing for their safety. 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. Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. 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. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. The Tornado-S is a deep upgrade to this system. Well, they physically abused me, kept me in the role of a servant". "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. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. According to witnesses and leaks, Onishchenko, together with his team and other criminals involved, has formed a new battalion stationed near Kiev. As of 2014 Azov is an official part of Ukrainian armed forces, fully integrated into the structure and command chain of the armed forces which includes being subject to military tribunal and military police. 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. note Sputnik). 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. At about 0430 on the morning of 11 July, a column of battalions from the Ukrainian 24th and 72nd Mechanized Brigades and 79th Airmobile Brigade was struck with an intense artillery barrage near Zelenopillya. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. the conflict area in eastern Ukraine, among Ukrainian armed forces, civilians and members of the armed groups. The discussion is closed. Afterwards, by rotating the metal handle of the telephone, bare wires were pressed against various parts of the body. You can participate in the discussion within 24 hours after the publication of the article. The Ukrainian far and fascistic right was then mobilised in 2013-14 to overthrow the more pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. He would show this video to half the battalion. 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. [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. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. Things were getting so bad that they would go along the street, smash up all the houses, and take everything. 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. Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant. 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. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. And forced the prisoners to do all this, and if they refused, they were beaten until they agreed. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. 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 addition, he was in the basement in darkness and could not observe the change of day and night.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.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. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. Latest Veterans News. 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. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. 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. [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. 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. They tried to make him confess to having detonated an explosion at a military checkpoint, which he did not do. To prevent me from running away, they put metal handcuffs on my leg, which they attached to a 24 kg kettlebell. 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. After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. 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. If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. Tens of thousands of people in Europe marched to protest against the Wests military aid to Ukraine. The Tornado unit was formed in October 2014 as part of Ukrainian Interior Ministry. **The editorial team has screenshots of the correspondence but we hesitate to publish them due to their shocking content, even for a seasoned reader.The VerdictTornado battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko received 11 years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant.Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison.Nikolai Tsukur received nine years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant.Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant.Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each.Anatoly Plamadyal received a sentence of eight years in prison.Yuri Shevchenko received a sentence of five years in prison. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify.When Did the Tornado Battalion Emerge, and Who Joined It?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 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? Remember when Zelensky said he would release prisoners with . The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. That's fair, says Onishchenko. 2,654 Fans Like. 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. In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. Four . 47. 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). 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. He wrote out the roles and lines. Does Nol Le Grat still have a chance to return to the helm of the FFF? Right Sector, and Tornado battalions . If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. 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. The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. Tornado was linked to the disbanded Shakhtersk battalion, which was accused of staging systematic looting. Source: this information was confirmed by Prosecutor Andriy Syniuk from the . Both are perverted maniacs. And then he filmed this video. The men were also subjected to torture with an object similar to an electric generator. Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. 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.The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation:If this situation is not resolved today or tomorrow, it will be what it should be under the law. During . The Tornado criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. 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