It was winter. note Sputnik). The battalions receive basic resources and weapons from the Interior Ministry or the Ministry of Defence. The Tornado criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. If we refused to work, they threatened to shoot us. 17 March 2014 Ukraine began first stage of mobilization; 18 March 2014 - 3rd Territorial Defence Battalion was created in Lviv Oblast; 19 March 2014 - the Defence Regiment was created in Dnipropetrovsk (later, the regiment was reformed into two territorial defence battalions) 6th Territorial Defence Battalion was created in Ternopil Oblast Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The then Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoliy Matios commented situation: Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. 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. 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. were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. You can participate in the discussion within 24 hours after the publication of the article. 11 September 2015. 34,709 Followers Follow. 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 Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. The case, consisting of 80 volumes, was considered for almost two years with the participation of 111 witnesses and 13 victims. That is wrong".In response, one of the defendants started shouting: "Why are you so melodramatic? 47. Tornado Battalion fighters training to help wounded soldiers at their base in Luhansk Oblast. 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. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov personally disbanded Shakhtyorsk. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access. At one point, the authorities threatened to send a thousand police officers to guard the courthouse during the trial against the Tornado fighters. To get rid of the defenders. The Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. 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 . Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. 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. During . 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 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? When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. He also liked to paint swastikas and pagan symbols on the walls and talk about white supremacy. They accounted for half of the battalion. Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siardhttp://stalkerzone.org/victim-testimonies-against-ukrainian-tornado-battalion-eng-subs/Original video from: ht. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example.According to witnesses and leaks, Onishchenko, together with his team and other criminals involved, has formed a new battalion stationed near Kiev. However, they never rushed there, preferring to engage in torture, provocation, mockery and robbery behind the lines. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. Together, they are both collectively known as the Ukrainian volunteer battalions. Latest Veterans News. 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. 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. 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 . [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. "The Blacks were fighters who were not formally recruited because they had criminal records; Freeman actively recruited them into the Tornado. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them. 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. REUTERS/VALENTYN OGIRENKO (3) SPECIAL REPORT 5 UKRAINE MAVERICK BATTALIONS and bribes are still used for everything from This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured 4. the insignia of the notorious rapists and murderers of the "Tornado" battalion. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . Volunteers provide things like: hygiene items, food, sleeping bags, night vision goggles and multicopters (for use as drones).[5]. The Special Police Forces (Ukrainian: ) is a Ukrainian volunteer corps of law enforcement units, part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. This was in 2016. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov 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. Many have been . However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutors and defense lawyers have both vowed to appeal the verdicts and prison sentences . 107 Followers Follow. 03/26/2022. 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. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. One of the detainees was forced to suck and lick a plastic tube and imitate oral sex and pretend to suck a penis. "Rape, Torture, Robbery: Victim Testimonies Against Ukrainian Tornado Battalion (ENG SUBS)." Zone (blog), March 9, 2022. https://www.stalkerzone.org . The philosophy is all like this. 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. They did a horrible thing to my son. 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. All those convicted fall under the Savchenko Law (one day in pre-trial detention counts as two days in prison). In the basement, the men were stripped naked, placed on a concrete floor, and doused with water. Tornado battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko received 11 years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. 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. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. In addition, he was in the basement in darkness and could not observe the change of day and night. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. 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. 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. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. "They were sent by the Interior Ministry. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. He is on trial for molesting his own young children. 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. After the lineup, not on camera, they could receive a beating. Tornado battalion (which actually was only a company) was created in 2014 in Zaporizhia and came under command of the Ministry of Interior.. The truth about their methods of "working with civilians" was too shocking to justify. You can call it a disarmament operation. 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. And forced the prisoners to do all this, and if they refused, they were beaten until they agreed. Published June 22, 2015 at 1:56 pm. The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. 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. 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. 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. They tried to make him confess to having detonated an explosion at a military checkpoint, which he did not do. The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015. Among the released former fighters of the punitive battalion is Danil Lyashuk, known by his moniker "Mujahid". 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. 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. 2. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. Theoretically, the TDF could field up to 150 battalions. Alyona Mazurenko SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 12:39 PM. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. 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