The criminals released under the emergency amnesty are now not just at large; they were given weapons. On 10 February 2015, fighters from the Tornado battalion and the Chernigov special police battalion led by SBU officers detained a pensioner M, who lived in the so-called LPR-controlled territory, at a checkpoint in Stanitsa Luganskaya settlement, Lugansk region. [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. They accounted for half of the battalion. Since the beginning, the court was under enormous pressure from politicians, neo-Nazis and "brothers in arms". This odious battalion became famous for kidnapping and holding civilians in their own prison, torturing them and . In total, I was kept in the basement for 17-18 days. If you joined the battalion, it was virtually impossible to leave. 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. It was found that 43 fighters of the Tornado battalion have criminal records, according to Ukrainian Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios. Who are Tornado troops? Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. When the stun guns discharged, they told me and one other person to stand up. They had nothing to lose and nowhere to return. If you are ready to die, you have the right to kill. The deputy minister tweeted a "creative proposal" he had for the aircraft that are planned to be replaced by the F-35 fighter jets. 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Already during the trial in the summer of 2015, some of the authorities were indignant and perplexed: how is it that criminals . 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. In autumn 2014 most of the territorial defence battalions were reorganized as motorized infantry battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian far and fascistic right was then mobilised in 2013-14 to overthrow the more pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainians with combat experience were released from detention and had all sanctions lifted. The action was part of a live-fire training exercise for new recruits on a recent morning outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Furthermore, I was forced to do humiliating chores every day, cleaning toilets, collecting cigarette butts, and so on. [5] These resources soon proved to be inadequate and numerous groups have helped to equip the battalions. Tens of thousands of people in Europe marched to protest against the Wests military aid to Ukraine. 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). 12:04 19.06.2015(updated 12:26 19.06.2015) A drone was used to prevent any massive military actions and to . The neighbour found her the next morning behind the bed, the granny was dead. 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. It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. If they commit any crimes they will be persecuted and even dismantled as was the case with "Tornado" battalion. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed . "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. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. 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. 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 . Ollie. Ruslan Onishchenko, a former commander of the Tornado volunteer battalion, is one such example. They repeatedly tried to storm the courthouse. Ukraine also lost control of the UkrainianRussian border and this allowed a large inflow of insurgents and military supplies from Russia. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. The detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. The men screamed violently. 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. In the Kiev region, a fighter of the Tornado company Daniil Lyashchuk (Al-Takbir), nicknamed "Mujahid", was detained, hiding from the investigation for several months, reports With reference to the military prosecutor of Ukraine . Here is how he commented on his actions on Ukrainian television:In other words, he knew of at least some of the crimes, and even then, in 2014, the obvious criminals were deliberately not put on trial and were never punished, but simply assigned to other "volunteer battalions" (ed. Azov Battalion is the most controversial of all the Ukrainian forces - espousing right wing ideology, showcasing Nazi symbols and focussing on white supremacist ideology. 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. The Tornado-S is a deep upgrade to this system. Tornado battalion (which actually was only a company) was created in 2014 in Zaporizhia and came under command of the Ministry of Interior.. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. He is on trial for molesting his own young children. The law enforcers did not dare to storm the building. were mentioned, indicating that the TDF has likely expanded far past the initially planned size. 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. [24] Russian politicians have not pushed for declaring pro-Russian insurgents fighting in Ukraine as terrorists. It is the termination of the implementation of criminal actions.Matios reported that every fourth Tornado fighter had a criminal record. 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. 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. He also liked to paint swastikas and pagan symbols on the walls and talk about white supremacy. In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. On top of these acts of cruelty, Tornado battalion members have boasted of extreme sexual violence, including the rape of small children.It was the unit's penchant for perversion that likely prompted the June 2015 Interior Ministry order to disband them.. They immediately received an assault rifle and were trained by more experienced fighters. He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. Once again, let us turn to the information that a correspondent of Novaya Gazeta* was able to obtain from a former "Tornado" member:You could roughly divide the Tornado personnel into three groups. At one point, the authorities threatened to send a thousand police officers to guard the courthouse during the trial against the Tornado fighters. Several armed volunteer militia groups are taking part in Ukraine's "Anti-Terrorist Operation," the government's fight against separatists in the east of the country. When Russia launched its war on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. 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. Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group. It was originally created for prevention of criminal encroachment and defence of civil order on 15 April 2014, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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. All in all, I was kept in the basement for 17 days.. 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. 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. Some members of the group were given sentences ranging from 7 to 12 years. Nevertheless, After the beating, they dragged the man to the pit as he fainted several times. 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. This was in 2016. Onishchenko was previously prosecuted five times for serious and particularly serious crimes. 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. Those who managed to escape found themselves with no documents, since the commander would confiscate the passports of the new recruits. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. 2,654 Fans Like. Residents had been contacting the police and even other national battalions about the "lawlessness" and crimes of the Tornado fighters practically from the very start.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. Many have been . 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. 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