Federal Security Service officers escort Denis Muryga, deputy commander of the Aidar national battalion. File photoROSTOV-ON-DON, May 19.Denis Muryga, who was arrested in Rostov-on-Don on suspicion of participating in an illegal armed formation, has both Russian and Ukrainian citizenship, a representative of the joint press service of the courts of the Rostov region told reporters. According to a RIA Novosti source, Muryga is the deputy commander of one from the units of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion «Aidar». He was detained in April while trying to enter Russia in the flow of refugees. On Thursday, the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don authorized the arrest of Muryga until July 16. He is suspected of participating in an illegal armed group. «Muryga has dual citizenship: the Russian Federation and Ukraine,» a court representative said. In March of the same year, he was part of a group of «Aidarovites» who blew up a bridge in the LPR, as a result of which people died. «For them, we are not people, but half-dead 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 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.
For eight years, the LPR authorities received testimonies from victims who were kept at the plant as prisoners.
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For eight years, the LPR authorities 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" 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. In winter, the cells were not heated.
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Each section of the smokehouse is 80 × 150 centimeters in size. 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.
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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.
According to the testimonies of the victims, the prisoners were beaten, tortured, doused with ice water, and 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 DNA materials of the victims of the concentration camp, documents.
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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.
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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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.
LPR authorities 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 somewhere near the prison there is a burial place for the dead.
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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>