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. 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. The volunteer battalion was formed in 2014, and recognized by the interior ministry, and fought in eastern Ukraine in the ongoing conflict against the separatist Donetsk and Lugansk regions. After a while, a man, holding a grey plastic pipe, came in and started hitting the detainees present on their buttocks and thighs. 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. The next day, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov signed an order to disband the Tornado battalion.The Tornado members themselves did not accept this decision. The Tornado criminals are in no hurry to go to the front line. 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. "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. Some of the Tornado men have personally confessed to having a tendency towards sadism, a predilection for torture. They stripped me naked - spread me by my arms and legs. He came up with a plot, such as Givi and Motorola, the separatist commanders, rape their boss, Alexander Zakharchenko. Telegram messages seen by The Sun Online show how the extreme far-right Azov Battalion are carrying out military-style drills and pledging to fight to the death. Without my son. It shows his communication with Ukrainian volunteer Volodymyr Savanchuk and his wife Svetlana. SHARES. Here is a video of the 'lineup' that Onishchenko, a battalion commander and repeated criminal, held for those who were disillusioned and wanted to leave the Tornado. Two Tornado members recorded the process I mentioned on mobile phones". 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. According to witnesses and leaks, Onishchenko, together with his team and other criminals involved, has formed a new battalion stationed near Kiev. The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed on March 4 that Ukrainian Special Forces killed 50 soldiers belonging to the Russian 31st Airborne Brigade based at Ulyanovsk in fighting in Hostomel on March 3. If we refused to work, they threatened to shoot us. The legal counsels and the Tornado members themselves used this catch. Members of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine's commissions and psychologists are working with the soldiers of the Tornado . 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. The Tornado unit was formed in October 2014 as part of Ukrainian Interior Ministry. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. The defendants regularly attempted to disrupt the trial, for example, by throwing faeces and spraying urine on those present. Do you think I am lying? The wave of outrage over the crimes of the "Tornado battalion" was so strong that the Ukrainian law enforcement system, despite the constant cover-up of war criminals, was forced to react.Tornado's members were detained, placed in a pre-trial detention center. He was constantly on the phone, calling up those retired out of jail and persuading them to come to the battalion. The Russian Communist Party pushed to label the battalions as terrorist organizations, even though they are directly subordinate to the Government of Ukraine and are legal government agencies of Ukraine. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid. We never found those people and we believe they are no longer alive. Such torture was carried out with two stun guns, which were applied to every man in the presence of Tornado battalion fighters. The said events and torture were recorded by Tornado members on mobile phones. The Ukrainians and the Azov regiment have been doing an excellent job of 'de-nazifying' Ukraine. They say they want to defend their freedom. 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. 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? President Zelensky's decision to include an address from an Azov Battalion . But Tornado outdid the latter in the heinousness of its crimes. The detainees were also forced to rape each other anally and orally. 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. 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 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. The case file contains correspondence, including photos** seized during the arrest from the phone of Tornado commander Onishchenko. The battalion also had a category of "white" and "grey" fighters. 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 . Members of the Tornado battalion appeared in the Kyiv court. In the summer of 2015, Ukraine witnessed a scandal over the Tornado battalion men whod only recently been hailed as. (Russian MoD) Evidence is emerging from the conflict in Ukraine appearing to show that Russian forces are utilizing guided rockets - the 9M544 and . Reportedly, the commander and eight officers of Tornado battalion have been detained in Ukraine today. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election several members of the battalions were elected into the Ukrainian parliament. 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. [25][26], On 10 November 2014 Stepan Poltorak, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, ordered territorial defence battalions to reorganize as motorized infantry battalions.[27][28]. Radical politicians, members of neo-Nazi movements and ATO veterans, who were convinced that the charges were fabricated, demanded an open trial. , c , , , . , , 454/2014 , "In Nikolaev create the armed battalion of territorial self-defence for situation deduction in the region", "Promised Remedies Transformation 34 Battalion territorial defence", . Moreover, survivors and witnesses of torture were simply afraid to testify against their torturers. Both are perverted maniacs.There would be no life without torture. You can participate in the discussion within 24 hours after the publication of the article. The court ordered that all of them be charged 7,750 hryvnyas (about 263 USD) for court costs. Members of the so-called "Tornado squadron" are suspected of looting, rape, torture, and murder. 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. 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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. [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. 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. [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. 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/. While a Ukrainian Army officer was giving the orders, the trainees were members of a volunteer Chechen battalion that also mixed in some Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians. Roman Ivash, Nikita Sviridovskiy and Andrei Demchuk were released from the sentence with two years' probation. 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. The Special Police Forces (Ukrainian: ) is a Ukrainian volunteer corps of law enforcement units, part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Nikita Kusta received a nine-year prison sentence and was stripped of his rank of junior sergeant. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. 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. Most of the citizens who experienced the so-called "mop-up" refused to describe their stories in writing, fearing for their safety. [15] By law, every oblast in Ukraine should create its own territorial defence battalions.[5]. Both agreed that a public trial was needed. 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. 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? They sit in that cage and laugh. 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. On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. By Interfax-Ukraine. Those caught would be returned to the Tornado, where the same pattern of beatings and torture would be repeated. Among the released former fighters of the punitive battalion is Danil Lyashuk, known by his moniker "Mujahid". If you are ready to die, you have the right to kill. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. The battalions receive basic resources and weapons from the Interior Ministry or the Ministry of Defence. The battalions were established in mid-2014, during the early stages of the war in Donbas, to combat the pro-Russian separatists[1][2][3] and the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, and the United Armed Forces of Novorossiya. Including those known for their particular cruelty, penchant for sadism, paedophilia, incest and other monstrous pathologies. 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. The Kiev government released the sadists from this battalion in March and sent them to the front. I was refused, there was regular verbal and physical harassment. The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region failed due to the loss of foreign-made anti-tank systems. Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk has offered Germany to transfer Tornado fighter jets planned for decommissioning to Ukraine. 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). Since the 2014 intervention in Ukraine by Russian forces and proxy forces (i.e. 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. . The Tornado battalion crimes case is a. VT RADIO: Alternative Foreign Policy Talk. Another battalion that started life as a right-wing militia, the Tornado battalion was . It was winter. In March, RT correspondent Maria Finoshina visited the abandoned base of the Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and talked with former prisoners of the nationalists. Units. Immediately after the detention, they stripped the man down to his underwear, searched him, and hit him several times without finding anything. On 17 June 2015, eight members of the battalion, including battalion commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained. The philosophy is all like this. 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 . He is on trial for molesting his own young children. 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. They were recruited officially.The "Greys" were ordinary guys without any military experience who came as volunteers. When the stun guns discharged, they told me and one other person to stand up. The Protocol I described the events of 17-23 March 2015. It is unknown what they really agreed upon with the Tornado fighters, but later Avakov said that the battalion obeyed his orders and respected discipline and order.What Criminal Charges Did the Tornado Fighters Face?Here are just some of the charges the Tornado fighters were tried on:There are no charges under the article murder among those listed. Theoretically, the TDF could field up to 150 battalions. To get rid of the defenders. They accounted for half of the battalion. 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. 32 volunteer territorial defence battalions were formed. According to the military prosecutor's office, the fighters of this battalion practiced extrajudicial killings, torture and rape against civilians. 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. The Tornado fighters came to this grandmother's house, pulled a new mattress right out from under her and left. If they were caught, all hell broke loose on the ground: the deserters were sometimes tortured for weeks. Despite the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence, it is very difficult to prove murder unless a body is found. 107 Followers Follow. Members of Ukraine's . Ukrainian military prosecutors, police, and residents allege that members of the Tornado battalion tasked with policing Pryvillia and nearby communities went rogue, committing violent crimes . They were recruited officially. How could someone recruit a gang into a battalion? This was reported on the evening of April 7th by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. Already during the trial in the summer of 2015, some of the authorities were indignant and perplexed: how is it that criminals . "I have a creative proposal to our German friends. Hed served time in prison twice and was a member of an organised crime group. To prevent me from running away, they put metal handcuffs on my leg, which they attached to a 24 kg kettlebell. In 2015, criminal proceedings were opened against members of the Tornado special-purpose police battalion. 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. There's nothing like raising your vitality when you have someone's life in your hands, says Mujahid.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. One photo shows Nazi graffiti left on a wall. 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. 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. Signs of torture inflicted on victims by members of the Tornado national battalionJournalists from various media outlets with different viewpoints collected the evidence. It should be recalled that the victims and survivors of the crimes, first and foremost, the raped men, asked for a closed trial. A veteran of the Ukrainian national guard's Azov Battalion conducts military exercises for civilians in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 30, 2022 [File: Gleb Garanich/Reuters] Published On 1 Mar 2022 1 . It was formed from Anti-Terrorist Operation veterans, a "Shakhtyorsk" police special unit, that was disbanded due to looting and war crimes. 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). Ukrainian officials say one video shows a re-enactment of how members of Tornado forced two captives to rape another man; they also say some 40 members of the battalion have criminal records. The elderly man was put in the basement, where there were eight other people besides him. Alexander Savitsky. The detainees in my presence were forced to rape each other at gunpoint. the conflict area in eastern Ukraine, among Ukrainian armed forces, civilians and members of the armed groups. If you are willing to endure torture - you have the right to torture. 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. It turns out I was only left untouched because according to some criminal laws the hand that gives is not chopped off". Written: 18:53, 27. 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. 2,654 Fans Like. However, it was decided that the trials would be held behind closed doors. Many have been . Federalist and pro-Russian insurgents quickly gained large swaths of territory. 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. Sputnik News. 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. Atrocities committed by the nationalist volunteer battalions during the Ukrainian conflicts have been well-documented by international human rights groups and . "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. 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. Danil Lyashuk received ten years in prison. 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.. "Tornado" is a national police battalion that was put on trial in Ukraine for numerous atrocities on Ukrainian territory. The now-famed Ukrainian defendersmostly members of marine and Azov Battalion unitswere increasingly confined to the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, which would become the last bastion of . It is reported by "Strana.ua" with reference to the ex-People's Deputy of Ukraine Igor Mosiychuk. 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. Could field up to 150 battalions. [ 5 ] it is very difficult to prove murder a. 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