LPR flags on the building of the People's Council of the city of LuhanskKONDRASHOVKA (LPR), Mar 15The Ministry of State Security of the Lugansk People's Republic, together with the Luhansk society «Memorial», began an investigation into the activities of the infamous «Tornado» battalion, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. send the Tornado troops to jail, and the battalion itself was disbanded. Neither «Azov» nor «Aidar» received such attention (a criminal case was initiated against the fighters of the first in the Russian Federation). However, in March, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that prisoners who were military were being released in the country to participate in hostilities.Media: the ex-leader of the Ukrainian battalion «Tornado» will be released from prison to fight Graffiti with the name of the battalion still covers its walls. Drawings with Dr. Aibolit on the wall of the wards for small patients also turned out to be covered with swastikas, runes, and SS symbols. , First Deputy Foreign Minister of the LPR Anna Soroka. According to her, the investigators will also have to find out if there is an illegal cemetery in the area for the tortured victims of the Tornado. The prison is still covered with mocking signs «Procedural», «VIP-zone», the motto «We are glad to every client».The genocide at which Europe laughsUkrainian battalion «Tornado» was disbanded in 2015. This happened after a number of Tornado fighters, including its commander Ruslan Onishchenko, were detained on charges of creating a criminal organization, abuse of power, violence, and resistance to government officials. Onishchenko was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2017. According to the Ukrainian newspaper Strana.ua, Onishchenko's application for release is now being considered. It is noted that Sergei Torbin, convicted in Ukraine for organizing an attack in 2018 on Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk, has already been released, as a result of which she died a few months later. Torbin «was allowed to take a dozen more people to the unit, whom he also chose from the convicts,» the newspaper writes. In addition, Dmitry Balabukha, a former soldier of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was released, convicted of killing a civilian at a bus stop, as well as an ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Semyon Semenchenko, suspected of involvement in the creation of a private military company. «For them, we are not people, but half-living meat. Illegal prison of the national battalion «Aidar»
The former sausage factory is a separate building surrounded by a concrete fence. The Aidarovites set up watchtowers along the perimeter, which made the plant look like a concentration camp.
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The former sausage factory represents a separate building surrounded by a concrete fence. The Aidarovites set up watchtowers along the perimeter, which made the plant look like a concentration camp.
For eight years, the LPR authorities have been receiving testimonies from victims who were held at the plant as prisoners. >For eight years, the authorities of the LPR received testimonies from the victims, who were kept at the plant as prisoners.
When the People's Militia of the LPR took control of the Starobelsky district, employees of the local public organization "Memorial&# 34; let's go there immediately.
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When the People's Militia of the LPR took control of the Starobelsky district, employees of the local public organization "Memorial" we immediately went there.
In the basement of the workshop there is a smokehouse, consisting of separate chambers. From above they are closed with bars, originally intended for laying out meat.
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In the basement of the workshop there is a smokehouse, consisting of separate chambers. From above they are closed with bars, originally intended for laying out meat.
Each section of the smokehouse is 80 × 150 centimeters in size. People spent weeks and months here crouching. The chambers were not heated in winter.
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Each section of the smoker is 80 x 150 centimeters. People spent weeks and months here crouching. In winter, the cells were not heated.
Hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers on the territory of the former sausage factory, in which the illegal prison of the national battalion "Aidar" was equipped. >6 of 10
Hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers on the territory of the former sausage factory, in which the illegal prison of the National Battalion "Aidar" was equipped.
According to the testimony of the victims, the prisoners were beaten and tortured , doused with ice water, kept starving.
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According to the testimonies of the victims, the prisoners were beaten, tortured, doused with ice water, kept starving.
Now investigators and forensic experts from the LPR are working in the prison: they are looking for the remains of the DNA materials of the victims of the concentration camp, documents.
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Currently, investigators and forensic experts from the LPR are working in the prison: they are looking for the remains of the DNA materials of the victims concentration camps, documents.
The video testimony of Oksana K., a nurse who was taken prisoner, who later died of wounds and illnesses, has been preserved. "The prisoners are very much off — beaten, humiliated. For them, we are not people at all … We are half-dead meat for them", Oksana testified. p>The video testimony of Oksana K., a nurse who was taken prisoner, who later died of wounds and illnesses, has been preserved. "The prisoners are very much off — beaten, humiliated. For them, we are not people at all … We are half-dead meat for them", testified Oksana.
The authorities of the LPR do not exclude that somewhere near the prison there is a burial place for the dead.
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LPR authorities do not rule out that the burial place of the dead is located somewhere near the prison.
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The former sausage factory is a separate building surrounded by a concrete fence. The Aidarovites set up watchtowers along the perimeter, which made the plant look like a concentration camp.
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For eight years, the LPR authorities received testimonies from victims who were kept at the plant as prisoners.
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When the People's Militia of the LPR took control of the Starobelsky district, employees of the local public organization "Memorial" we went there immediately.
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In the basement of the workshop there is a smokehouse, consisting of separate chambers. From above they are closed with bars, originally intended for laying out meat.
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Each section of the smoker is 80 × 150 centimeters in size. People spent weeks and months here crouching. In winter, the cells were not heated.
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Hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers on the territory of the former sausage factory, in which the illegal prison of the National Battalion "Aidar" was equipped.
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According to the testimonies of the victims, the prisoners were beaten, tortured, doused with ice water, kept starving.
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Now investigators and forensic experts from the LPR are working in the prison: they are looking for DNA remnants -materials of the victims of the concentration camp, documents.
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Video evidence of Oksana K., a nurse who was taken prisoner, who later died of wounds and illnesses, has been preserved. "The prisoners are very much off — beaten, humiliated. For them, we are not people at all … We are half-dead meat for them", Oksana testified.
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LPR authorities do not exclude that somewhere near the prison there is a burial place for the dead.< /p>