264. 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. KYIV -- Ukrainian prosecutors and defense lawyers have both vowed to appeal the verdicts and prison sentences . Azov Battalion is the most controversial of all the Ukrainian forces - espousing right wing ideology, showcasing Nazi symbols and focussing on white supremacist ideology. [15] By law, every oblast in Ukraine should create its own territorial defence battalions.[5]. The 19th Territorial Defence Battalion was created in, The 21st Territorial Defence Battalion was created in, 22 July 2014 Ukraine began third stage of mobilisation, The 37th Territorial Defence Battalion was formed between 29 August 2014, The 41st Territorial Defence Battalion was formed in, 1st Territorial Defence Battalion Volyn (, 3rd Territorial Defence Battalion "Volya" (, 4th Territorial Defence Battalion disbanded "Zakarpattia" (, 41st Territorial Defence Battalion disbanded "Chernihiv-2" (, 43rd Territorial Defence Battalion "Patriot" (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast), This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 19:43. It was found that 43 fighters of the Tornado battalion have criminal records, according to Ukrainian Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. Both are perverted maniacs. This ultra-nationalist group was formed in October 2014 as part of a Ukrainian Interior Ministry strategy. 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. Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. 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 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. In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. He wrote out the roles and lines. The Ukrainians and the Azov regiment have been doing an excellent job of 'de-nazifying' Ukraine. It was winter. 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group. The case itself was reported to consist of 86 volumes. Alyona Mazurenko SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 12:39 PM. 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 . To get rid of the defenders. This perverted sadist, Mujahid, is currently at the front. #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. 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. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. They immediately received an assault rifle and were trained by more experienced fighters. 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. 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. They should not be confused with the volunteer units of Special Tasks Patrol Police of Ukraine created along with territorial defense battalions, but under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior. Popular opinions were split: some, despite the evidence of crimes against Ukrainian civilians, believed in the innocence of the former "national heroes", while others wanted a fair trial and retribution. 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. 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. He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. Four . The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. 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. Photo by Alexander Rychkov. 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. 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. Yuri Shevchenko received a sentence of five years in prison. 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"Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. This was mainly done with the aim of seizing property from the victims and further intimidating them. Ukrainian Minister of Interior Avakov visits patrol police training center in Lvov. 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. It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. He is on trial for molesting his own young children. According to the former MP Ihor Mosiychuk, Mujahid, who received a ten-year sentence, was released back in the summer of 2021. If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. Latest Veterans News. 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. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. The ex-commander of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison - he spent seven years out of 11 in prison. 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. They hit them repeatedly with their hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects, mainly on their legs, buttocks and intimate areas. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example. 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. 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. 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. The national battalion was stationed in the part of the Lugansk region which was under Ukrainian control (not to be confused with the LPR - Sputnik). Tag: Tornado Battalion (Ukraine) Ukraine War. 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. Many agreed and came. Since the 2014 intervention in Ukraine by Russian forces and proxy forces (i.e. Access to the chat has been blocked for violating the. 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. It was winter. 6 May 2014 Ukraine began a second stage of mobilization. Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. Tornado was linked to the disbanded Shakhtersk battalion, which was accused of staging systematic looting. [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. Two Tornado members recorded the process I mentioned on mobile phones". The elderly man was put in the basement, where there were eight other people besides him. The police, to whom the Tornado battalion reported the defection of a subordinate, often found those who managed to get home. There has been scary rumours about their basements". The explanation is simple no bodies were found, and so far, all the victims have been reported missing. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine formed the Tornado battalion in September 2014 on the basis of the personnel of the Shakhtersk national battalion disbanded due to looting and crimes against the population. The detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. According to former Tornado members, there was no hurry to officially recruit them, although Freeman promised that after the training they would be registered according to all the regulations. Without my son. If they got killed, the Tornado had nothing to do with it they were not officially listed, just like the Blacks. Tornado Battalion fighters training to help wounded soldiers at their base in Luhansk Oblast. According to the investigation, members of Tornado installed a torture chamber on the first floor of a local school. 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. Boris Gulchuk, Maxim Khlebov and Ilya Kholod received nine years in prison each. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. 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 The ships of the "Karakurt" and "Buyan-M" projects with "Caliber" went to the exercises in the Baltic Sea, The weather on Tuesday: cold, lightly snowy in the southeast, and rainy in Corsica, The lawyer's concern: The verdict could lead to fewer reports, What is the fate of Zelensky after the end of the war? In one case of criminal activity, Tornado commander Ruslan Onishchenko forced his ward's girlfriend to masturbate him. If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. A high-profile criminal case against members of the Tornado battalion is known from the reported cases of sexual violence against men. Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siardhttp://stalkerzone.org/victim-testimonies-against-ukrainian-tornado-battalion-eng-subs/Original video from: ht. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. 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. separatists militias, mainly located in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic) and related conflicts onwards, i.e. How could someone recruit a gang into a battalion? They accounted for half of the battalion. The court ruled to commute the sentence by releasing him from prison and imposing a probation period of three years. 107 Followers Follow. The Obolonsky regional court of Kiev announced the sentences of militants of the "Tornado" battalion, which were accused of tortures, rapes, and the murders of civilians of Donbass. During . They justified their rail terrorism by citing "the struggle against smuggling, corruption and illegal arms trade". The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun . A survivor of the torture by the Tornado fighters shows signs of torture with a blowtorch.2. In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. Freeman found all this amusing. 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. To prevent me from running away, they put metal handcuffs on my leg, which they attached to a 24 kg kettlebell. 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 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. In the basement, the men were stripped naked, placed on a concrete floor, and doused with water. Sputnik News. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. By Interfax-Ukraine. ( ) . There would be no life without torture. It was linked to the Shakhtersk volunteer battalion, which was disbanded for systematic looting. You can call it a disarmament operation. 2014 . In other words, the regional authorities asked Kiev to disarm those who were sent to protect civilians. In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. 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 criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. 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 . The legal counsels and the Tornado members themselves used this catch.The case itself was reported to consist of 86 volumes.Witness TestimonyAs stated earlier, the court was under enormous pressure. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. They promised to feed us three times a day and give us cigarettes. 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, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. Before the invasion, the Ukrainian military had already begun an expansion process of the territorial defense forces in preparation of the Russian invasion. Alexander Savitsky. 32 volunteer territorial defence battalions were formed. 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. They did not talk to me and did not explain the reason for my detention. 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. The case file contains correspondence, including photos** seized during the arrest from the phone of Tornado commander Onishchenko. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. 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.On 17 June 2015, eight members of the battalion, including battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained. 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]. [5] These resources soon proved to be inadequate and numerous groups have helped to equip the battalions. [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. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. The victims included male and female rape victims who asked to remain anonymous. All in all, I was kept in the basement for 17 days.. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. Nikolai Tsukur received nine years in prison and was stripped of his rank of police lieutenant. The court hearings were held behind closed doors, without public access. The battalions receive basic resources and weapons from the Interior Ministry or the Ministry of Defence. According to him, the detainee was forced to imitate sexual intercourse and pretend to suck a penis. According to former Tornado members, there was no hurry to officially recruit them, although Freeman promised that after the training they would be registered according to all the regulations. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. 2,654 Fans Like. The deputy minister tweeted a "creative proposal" he had for the aircraft that are planned to be replaced by the F-35 fighter jets. Together, they are both collectively known as the Ukrainian volunteer battalions. The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. At 10 p.m., we were brought to the school building in our village, where the Tornado battalion was stationed, which everyone knew about, and put me in the basement. 22nd Territorial Defence Battalion "Kharkiv", General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 24th Territorial Defence Battalion "Aidar", 34th Territorial Defence Battalion "Batkivshchyna", 40th Territorial Defence Battalion "Kryvbas", 1st Independent Motorized Infantry Battalion, 2nd Independent Motorized Infantry Battalion, "Undeclared War: Putin's Covert Invasion of Eastern Ukraine", "Ukraine crisis: Why the U.S. isn't tougher on Russia", ">Territorial Defense Battalions (BTrO / BTD)", "Ukraine's volunteer battalions: The new model army", , , , , . According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. Both are perverted maniacs.There would be no life without torture. 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