Tuesday 24 March 2015

21+ War crimes of the armed forces and security forces of Ukraine_period from 25 August 2014 to 20 January 2015



The information collected by the Foundation forDemocracy Studies gives grounds to believe that the Ukrainian armed forces (VSU), the National Guard and other military units of the Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine, as well as the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) systematically and on purpose violate Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights that reads, ‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’
The extent to which torture is being used and the fact that this is done systematically prove that torture is an intentional strategy of the said institutions, authorized by their leadership. 

Ukrainian citizen Alexander Agafonov, tortured to death by SBU officers in Izyum on 14 November 2014.
Yana, victim’s wife on SBU officials:
‘They have beaten him to death simply. When they came – they took him away to torture him. When they brought his body back – the heels were blue, the feet were blue. He’s got some traces of punctures on his hands… I don’t know… what they did to him, punctured him or drove the needles under his nails – there were holes on his hands. Each bone has a hole in it. They tortured him like… when there was a real war no one has tortured people the way they tortured him.’

 Link to the original Report:



<…>Here is, for example, an account by one of the torture victims, Robert Aniskin, ‘I had not taken part in the military actions and I had not enrolled in the self-defense forces, nor had I stood guard at a checkpoint .It was the Azov battalion that arrested me .They beat me with rifle butts during the arrest .Then they questioned me using electro-shock devices and beating me right and left .After that I was taken to the Mariupol SBU where, with a plastic bag tied over my head and hands tied behind my back, I was thrown into the basement .I stayed that way for over 24 hours .Then they put another bag over my head and cut it so I could breathe and began the interrogation .I was thrown to the floor and 3 or 4 men kicked and beat with brass knuckles all over the body.
<…>Andrey Runov: ‘During the night 23–24 November I was arrested at my home by the Aidar battalion .We were taken to the airport of Mariupol .The beating and torture there were so severe that we kept blacking out .They would beat us on the heels, ribs and head .They said they were going to break our legs, threatened to cut off our ears and gouge our eyes out .My friend got his insides beaten up and skull fractured; he was paralyzed as a result.’
<…> Many of the torture victims report marathon beatings inflicted by the Ukrainian armed forces and security forces. Here is for example an account by German Mandrikov, ‘I am just a civilian, I  had not participated in the military actions but the SBU investigators forced me to incriminate myself through torture. In early October I went to see my mother and was arrested by unknown men .They took me to the airport of Mariupol where for three days in a row I suffered beastly torture .They used both psychological and physical abuse: they gave me electric shock, suffocated me with a plastic bag, beat on the feet with a tire iron, poured freezing water on me, etc .The torturers had an Azov insignia on their sleeves. They threatened to rape my mother and bride .I could not bear the torment any longer and signed some documents without even reading them.’
<…> A self-defense fighter Elvin Soidov says, ‘I was tortured for 24 days: they would poke me, hit me with a hammer, ropes and water hoses .On the 25th day I was taken to the SBU quarters in Mariupol and there the beating continued.’

Read the Report.


Sweden invested 175 million euro into a project called “Ukrainian coup”, forgetting that what goes around comes around. National Liberation Army of Ukraine will drive the Nazis, murderers and torturers back to their sponsors! Get ready for the meeting!