KIEV REGIME’'S ATROCITIES AGAINST CAPTURED RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN Moscow 2025Dac ee oa ce CELE mewmou, eee U Rear uea) ats or patted peed The International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (chaired by M.S. Grigoriev) was established on 1 March 2022 during the international conference at the initiative of Russian and foreign human rights activists, lawyers and journalists, At present it includes representatives of civil society from 33 countries (USA, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, India, Argentina, Italy, Australia, Israel, Serbia, etc.). The main task of the International Public Tribunal is to collect evidence of the crimes of the Kiev neo-Nazi regime, transfer them to law enforcement agencies and present information about them on Russian and international platforms In February 2025 the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis interviewed thirty-six Russian servicemen who had been tortured in Ukraine. Released prisoners describe the crimes and brutal torture to which they were subjected b: Ukrainian servicemen, members of the Security Service of Ukraine and their accomplice: Chopping off and drilling through their limbs and shooting them in the body organs, genital mutilation, electrocution, skin burning with red-hot metal objects, setting the dogs on prisoners of war, various strangulations and the use of American torture by drowning, days-long beatings with metal pipes and ropes, sticks, hammers, bits and other objects, and the subtle abuse to which they were subjected. Many Russian servicemen were shot or died as a result of torture. Witness testimonies prove that the killing of Russian POWs isa constant practice of the Kiev regime. D.S. Rychin testifies: "Alexei Soprykin and I were taken prisoner near the village of Peschanoye. I hada bullet wound, and Alexei had multiple shrapnel wounds. Alexei, unarmed, was shot bya Ukrainian fighter." Russian servicemen were shot in front of S.V. Tarkov: "Two boys could still be helped. I still managed to help one of them to rewrap his leg. The Ukrainians came through and shot them. The wounded were killed before my eyes.” D.N. Agashin tells: "For a kilometre and a half we were led by the ainians. They shot one person. Torture began on the following day. S.A. Levin says that before they started torturing, one of the POWs was killed: "I said, there is a wounded fighter. And I just heard him being shot dead by the Ukrainians. There were two of us when they handed us over to the 'Right Sector’. They brought us to some base and shouted: “Take off your clothes.” They started beating us with sticks and metal pipes. Our eyes were blindfolded. $.V. Prilutsky says that, like Nazi troops during the Great Patriotic War, Ukrainian servicemen shot the wounded: "When I was taken prisoner, Ukrainians shot a heavily wounded man. They killed him. He was my fellow serviceman. On the way they killed another one. He lay down and said: "I can't walk. And they just shot him". S.M. Belyaev tells: "One prisoner was finished off by the Ukrainians. They shot him. I was beaten with a chain. I can still hear the ringing of the chain. My eyes were bandaged. They beat me onthe head, stomped on my wounded leg". A.V. Malinovsky says that the Armed Forces of Ukraine not only did not hide the practice of killing Russian prisoners of war, but also used it as one of the means of terror: "They said that as. long as they had us in the hands of Ukrainian intelligence, we were not yet prisoners of war. They could shoot us right there. They said: “So you are nobody, you don't exist”. One of the constant torture methods of the Kiev regime was electrocution. S.V. Kozlov testifies: “Ukrainians put me on the electric chair. A battery, like from a car, and electrodes were attached to eeDac ee oa ce CELE mewmou, eee U Rear uea) ats oy patoriy Peeyrh my penis and lips. And they tortured me all day long. I was also beaten with metal ropes, hit on the head witha ladle. They set the dogs on me and left scars on my back. A.V. Goriy also tells about the electric current torture he had to endure: "They put me on an electric chair, tied a wire to my penis, tied a wire to my nipple and tortured me with an electric current. [ lost consciousness. Then they broke my ribs with rifle butts and clubs". E.A. Skorlupkin says that Ukrainian servicemen did not hide their prac' killing prisoners: "One Armed Forces of Ukraine soldier said that they tortured many people with electric current - ;. They shot our prisoners. He said that he once worked on boats. He was sent to pick up four of our prisoners. He arrived and they gave him one. He asked, "Where are the others? They said: “Well, that's it, they shot them dead”. O.D. Gergenov tells that the Armed Forces of Ukraine used electroshock torture no less frequently: "I learnt for the first time in my life what an electroshocker was. They roasted me for a long time. An hour from head to toe. The back side of the body was roasted. Then in the end, when we gotto the pre-trial detention centre, we could smell burnt meat.” E.V. Nekrasov also speaks about it: "In the camp people told me that they were tortured with electric shocks and put on the electric chair.” Drunken Ukrainians shot them with pistols, shot them in the knee and legs. They would get drunk and start abusing them. Ukrainian servicemen practiced cutting off, drilling, shooting limbs and breaking fingers of Russian servicemen M.V. Likhachev describes how he was personally tortured: "My finger was cut off three times with pruning shears used to cut branches. Four teeth were pulled out with pliers. They put me on an electric chair. They set the dogs on me.” A.B. Okhotnikov testifies: "He broke one of my fingers first. Then he tore it, it bled, he tried to break the second one, but the bone burst. Then the other one broke my ribs. They put me ona chair completely unclothed below the waist, tied my genitals with a thin wire and tightened them" V.V. Malyukov tells about what he saw in the Ukrainian concentration camp 'Zapad-1': “One man came to the camp with me. He had all his fingers beaten off with hammers’. PR. Medoks says that such practices of the Kiev regime were ‘common’: "In the camp people told me that someone had a nail driven into his hand, someone was cut off with a saw, someone's hand was broken.” E.V. Britov testifies that Ukrainian servicemen practiced torture with red-hot objects: "They tortured a guy with a hot iron. They heated a large nail with a torch and put it on his stomach. I myself saw these scars on Maxim Tsiolkovsky. He stayed on 'West-1'. And you can see the marks from that hot nail right in his stomach area. Several good scars of ten centimetres each." Brutal beatings of Russian servicemen were also a mandatory practice of the Kiev regime. stop at a roadblock, the doors open, these people come out and say: ssians.” They start beating us right in the car, whoever can reach whom. At every roadblock while we were driving. There were 5-6 checkpoints and at each checkpoint everyone who was standing at the checkpoints was beaten badly. Unarmed people tied up and blindfolded were beaten with rifle butts and sticks. They were cheering us up with Ukrainian music at full yolume. There was a constant stream of foul language from the 'Aidarovtsy’. They said: “You are all finished anyway, you will not live anyway, you will die”. A.YU. Smirsky describes how he was tortured in the Kharkiv pre-trial detention centre. He was shot in the leg and subjected to constant beatings for a month. Some people were killed in front of ee) of torturing andDac ee oa ce CELE mewmou, Caesars asia atte Seems phere beer his eyes: "When I was in the pit, I was beaten very badly. One person was pulled out, he did not return, the Ukrainians killed him and took him out in a bag. Further in Kharkiv pre-trial detention centre there were different tortures. My leg was shot twice during torture with a gun. They came in and just beat everyone up. They were big, pumped-up guys with no chevrons on their uniforms. A man in front of my eyes, Yuri, was beaten to death, just kicked to death by four people. It was in the Kharkiv pre-trial detention centre ey tortured and beat him for a month and a week.” Torture of Russian servicemen by Ukrainian doctors, including operations without anaesthesia, was also a constant practice of the Kiev regime. M.A. Aneorgin tells how he was cut alive. He was brought to the hospital in Kramatorsk. The doctor started cutting out just pieces of meat alive without anaesthesia and medication. A Ukrainian doctor said: “Why are we going to treat you at all?” He stabbed him in his eye and cut his body. N.S. Khmeley says that during torture the Ukrainian nurse looked into his eyes. "When I was brought to the hospital, the Ukrainian nurse there put on gloves and simply stuck her index finger in my neck in the hole and looked into my eyes. Ihad a hole in my neck about the size of a finger. She just stuck her finger in and picked without anaesthetic. She didn't say anything, just looked me in the eye. Itwas in Zaporozhye. Then they just poured water on my wound and bandaged it up. M.A. Lungkih was also tortured by Ukrainian doctors: "In Kiev, I exp Ukrainian surgeon and a nurse cut my leg without anaesthetic. They cut my leg alive. Five guy heldme and made a gag out of a towel, [almost chewed the gag off from pain. A day later they came. Every dressing and cleaning of my leg was without painkillers. It's worse than sadism, I guess. I don't know what to call it. And that's what they do in Kiev in pre-trial detention centres. It's like that with everyone there. Everyone screams there, everyone is exhausted. It's always like that thet The Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 on the Treatment of Prisoners of War stat “Prisoners of war should always be treated humanely. Any unlawful act or omission on the part of the captive power resulting in the death of a prisoner of war in its custody or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war is prohibited and will be regarded as a grave breach of this Convention’ Section II, Article 13), and 'No physical or mental torture or other coercive measures may be inflicted on prisoners of war" (Section IM, Article 17). The Kiev regime's atrocities against Russian prisoners of war are grave violations of the Geneva Conventions and war crimes that know no statute of limitations. The following data are verbatim and unadapted testimonies of Russian servicemen who have returned from Ukrainian captivity.Dac ee oa ce CELE mewmou, Caesars asia atte Seems phere beer 1 | Maxim Vladimirovich Likhachev "They lifted me up, I feel like I am bleeding. They cut my eyes because one said to cut them. They started to search me. I remembered that I had my phone, that I hadn't thrown it away. He says: “What's in the phone?” At that moment I realized that there was a map of my starting position, where we had 25 other people, from where we started, well 5-6 people each There were a few more points in between. I realized that if the phone was pointing to it, that was it. I grabbed my phone and smashed it into the paving stones. After that my finger was cut off three times with pruning shears and four teeth pulled out with pliers. I was put on the electric chair. ting the dogs on me. They were from the 'Azov' and ‘Kraken’ Nazi brigades. The dogs were tearing us up for an hour. Two Rottweilers, Fedya and Oxy were their nicknames. We could not do anything. The only thing we tried was not to allow them to catch your throat. ‘Then there was the electric chair and burns from the electric chair. One terminal went here, another terminal hooked to the neck. A generator, a station gave 220w. I got three broken ribs After 3 days they realized that I was dying. I couldn't breathe. They blindfolded me and took me to Kharkov. There they explained to me that they pierced me with a needle, pumped out blood, gave me a bottle with a tube and said: “If you want to live, don't take it out, otherwise you will suffocate.” I travelled all the way to Dnepropetrovsk to the hospital in the boot with my ribs broken." B Alexander Ivanovich Guriy “The Armed Forces of Ukraine took me to a dugout somewhere: in the forest. A man came up to me and asked:” Who is thi Ukrainian said: “Russian 'Guriy”. The other guy said: "It's our Ukrainian surname. Is he against us?" They put me on the electric chair, tied a wire to my penis, tied a wire to my nipple and tortured me with electric current. I lost consciousness. Then they broke my ribs with rifle butts and clubs. Theard that the other guy was being tortured and he screamed a Jot. Then I learnt that the name of the man who came in and tortured us, was San Sanych. He was the owner of the place where we were tortured, an expert in torture. Later they took us to Kharkov. In the cell guys told us how the Russian flag was nailed to a man's back. Then I was moved in the cell in Kiev. There was an old woman in Kiev. She was a monster like that Gestapo man. She was a medic. When she treated wounds, she on the contrary made them hurt more.” ee ©Dac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Eremin “I was in the cellar of the “Azov” brigade at the factory. How do I know that it was 'Azov'? I was blindfolded, but they often switched on the Azov anthem in the evening. The guards were drunk. They would switch on the Azov anthem, put us on our knees and beat. My eyes were blindfolded and my hands were tied. They beat me for a long time until morning, almost all night. They drank there at the same place where I was held. They practiced their blows on us and then went out drinking again. At that time I was either lying down or they put us on our knees. There were eight prisoners. They beat us all one by one. They wanted to cut off my genitals. They got a bolt cutter and cut my leg right next to my genitals. There isa scar there. The Ukrainians tortured me with electric shocks. They tied wi to my fingers and doused them with water. They used ‘tapik' (a telephone set, which they tied either to the toes or genitals. My heart stopped. I lost consciousness. When I opened my eyes, I was ina black bag. They packed me in it. I shouldn't have opened my eyes, but I did. I was already in the bag, when my heart suddenly started. I remember how in my mind the images switched on and off. For 24 hours I burped and didn't get up. Then they took me out and put me on my knees. They took out a gun and fired sharply. All this was caught on the camera. They sent this photo to my mother. The Nazis of the Azov Brigade tortured the people from the Donetsk People's Republic particularly badly. Very badly. They were either killed immediately or electrocuted until they were unconscious. Then they were taken somewhere to be shot dead. It was called 'to zero out’. Later I met some people there. Some people, I think, were simply killed. One guy fell down and didn't get up again. He fell straight face down on the floor. They thought he was joking. They picked him up again and electrocuted him. He fell down and didn't get up again. They told us that we Russians were lucky because we needed an exchange fund. They said: “Ifyou don't die here from what we're doing to you.” Iwas there for 16 days. Blindfolded, no food. For sixteen days they didn't give us any food. Then they gave us two biscuits. And I realized that we were going to be taken for exchange. They switched on the Ukrainian anthem. If you didnot repeat it, they would beat you until you learned it. The anthem was on a torturer's phone. He played, let's say, a verse, then switched it off and we had to repeat it. If we did not, they started killing. Then he switched it back on. If we messed up a word, they started killing again. Twas played the Azov anthem very often. One of them put me on my knees and just practiced a blow on me. He would stand, put his hand to his chest and would stand in silence. Iam on my kne: Then he would start hitting me with his legs and arms. When we arrived at the concentration camp. one came out and said loudly: “You have come to the Bandera people. Now you will learn what Bandera is.” I remembered that for the rest of my life. All nineteen months I was exactly where they considered themselves Bandera's children. In the camp there all the walls and are covered with the photos of Bandera and Shukhevych. Even in the camp 'West-1' all the walls are covered with them. Tf you walk 100 metres to the canteen, all the walls are covered with Bandera, Shukhevych and fascist signs - everything hangs on the walls, This is their pride.” ee eeDac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue O Alexander Viktorovich Kurtsev "They stripped us down to our underwear. Young men in strange uniforms came and just beat us up. Iwas personally bitten by a Rottweiler. I'll remember it forall my life: the dog's name was Fedya. Then there was Roxy, a smaller Rottweiler. They were tearing me apart. And we were in our underwear. I've got fang marks. He bit me through to the bone. Then they beat us with an aluminium bat filled with sand. I mean, it was a massive tool. I remember one of the prisoners. He was a young man from Odessa. It seems that when the conflict was still beginning, they probably moved with their family. And the Ukrainians found out the year he probably moved with his family. When the Ukrainiai found out that he was from Odessa, they started beating him very badly. He was bleeding like a fountain. Then I never saw him again. Then I personally saw one of ours. He took off his T-shirt: his back was cut all over. He was beaten with a whip to the bone. I mean, the meat was just popping out on him. His name was Lyosha, he was 25 years old. The man was in the cell for 20 days before the pre-trial detention centre. He was thrown into the cell, then pulled out, severely beaten, then thrown into the cell again, and so every 4 hours. He survived 20 days living like this. I don't know how he survived.” Dmitry Nikolayevich Koshelev "In captivity they blindfolded me, tied my hands and brought me to the basement. They started beating me, hitting me on the head. It is unclear what they used, either with rebar or rifle butt. The scars are still there, they haven't even healed on my head yet. They handcuffed me and hung me ona chain, so I hang like that until the handcuffs cut through the flesh to the bone. Then they stripped me naked and put me on my knees in the dog enclosure outside. It was November, cold already. We knelt naked in the enclosure, head down until morning. Then they took us away, put us in the basement and for the first four days they were just killing us. Someone would come in, ask a question and immediately start beating. They hit us with a sledgehammer in the chest and on the shoulders. A big iron sledgehammer with a wooden handle. We were on our knees, and they hit us in the chest and on the back with a sledgehammer. Then they took us to another pit and beat us again. When we went in there, we had to shout 'Glory to Ukraine!'. If someone didn't shout, they would hit you on the head again with some kind of ironwork. eeDac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue ‘There were twenty-one of us staying there in a 4x4 earthen celler. On the fifth day we were fed for the first time. Then we were moved to Kharkov to the pre-trial detention centre. The operatives at the local jail would pull us out and drunken people would beat us with fists and buckets filled with cement. Then they said: “Wash the floor.” It was all covered with blood. This was the day before the Red people came ther The Ukrainians opened the cell in the morning right before the Red Cross arrived, and said: "Well, are you going to talk too much or not?” Well, you see, if you say anything, we will kill you, that's all Andrey Valeryevich Malinovsky “When they took us prisoner, they didn't tie our hands like they used to do, with rope or tape, but they wrapped our hands with a tourniquet, that is, and for about six hours or so they didn't loosen it. My hands went numb. I begged them to loosen the tourniquet on my hands, but they just laughed. I could have lost my hands, butit didn't stop them. Then they put TNT in my bulletproof vest. They said: “I you come with us to the military point. Your forces will be firing If they don't get you, we will press the button and you will be blown away. Don't think you'll die so fast.” They gave me some kind of injection and said: “You will feel the pain all over. You will be dying slowly.” I don't know what they injected me They said what their propaganda ‘You are katsapy (pejorative term for Russians) and you've come to kill our children.” I said: “We don't kill any children. In our contract it's written that if we carry out some unlawful acts, that fall under the jurisdiction of the law of our state, if we break the law, we are liable criminally. We do not come to kill peaceful citizens in any case. We are fighting against the gang formations of yours.” I told them that. I was beaten. I was hit with a crowbar or a sledgehammer of some kind, hit with such force. I got a wound to my eye. A cassete exploded nearby. The Ukrainian surgeon joked. I told him: “Here is my eye, look at it. He said: “I will hit you on your other eye. and you'll have it the same as. this one.” He operated on me without anaesthesia. He removed splinters, cut away dead tissue, ripped it all out without anaesthetic. It was a terrible pain. The Ukrainian doctor said: “Ihate you.” And when he gave me my last dressing, he took offall the bandages and put the green stuffon my open wound. I've got stitched up here too, completely sewn up. I mean, he lifted up my lip and put more green stuff on it. Imean, he was making fun of me. They threatened me that they would cut off my genitals.” ee eeeDac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue Aleksey Borisovich Okhotnikov “We were interrogated by some woman in her 30s. child and used to call her child on the phone a lot. She w rity Service of Ukraine. She kept saying that she needed to use physical force with us. The company commander came in and broke my first finger. Then he tore it. It bled. He tried to break my other finger, but the bone burst. Then another man broke my ribs. That woman sat next to me and supervised the torture. In between tortures she telephoned her child. Then they forced me say what was written in Ukrainian, That was going on during a week. They videoed me from the waist up. [had to say that Twas so-and-so, that I congratulated somebody with his birthday and wished him happy birthday and so on. That woman from the Security Service of Ukraine made me make a video saying to the Russian guys to surrender They put me on a chair, completely unclothed from the waist down, tied my genitals with wire and tightened them up. In the end I couldn't bare it any longer. I was crying. It was this company commander who tortured me. He was sitting on the side and you couldn't see him on the phone. They only filmed me from the waist up, because I was naked from the waist down.” B Matvei Alexandrovich Ainyaurgin “The Ukrainians started beating me immediately. The Armed Forces of Ukraine thought I was Buryat by nationality. They said: “Now we will cut off your head.” They said that they would 'zero me out' (which meant to kill), that Iwas “useless”. They started contacting the command, as I realized, asking what to do with me, either kill me or not. Then they took me to a small village in the direction of Soledar. They started beating me again. I said that I was from the Private Military Company, 'Veterans' unit. The Ukrainians didn't take the fighters from the PMC alive. The PMC never retreated, they stood firmly against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That is why the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed the PMCs, even the wounded ones. I understood that the commanding authority did not tell them to kill me, so they contacted some people. They told them that they needed meas an exchange fund. I was taken out towards Kramatorsk to a garage where the Security Service of Ukraine officers started beating me. [had wounds on my legs, so they kicked my wounds. Then the Security ee °Dac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue Service of Ukraine officers moved me to another garage, where their investigators and commanders from other units came. There in that garage they also beat me with a mallet on my legs where I had wounds. They said: “If you're so uncooperative, you'll be killed today. As soon as I got off the car, they knocked me down and started kicking me right on the road. ‘There were other cars passing by. They filmed me being beaten up. They mostly hit me in my head and in my heart. When I was already beaten and thrown into the boot of the pick-up truck, two people got in the car on the front seats. They beat me all the way and stabbed me in the head. When I was bleeding, they wrapped up my wounds with a duct tape. At every roadblock they beat me the same way. They made me shout 'Glory to Ukraine!’ The door opened and they immediately kicked me with their legs. I was blindfolded and could not see. My hands were tied behind my back. They mainly beat on my head. In the detention centre they recorded the wounds and told me to tell the Red Cross, that I received injures at the battlefield.” Bb Alexander Nikolayevich Kyurcha “When I was tortured, my legs were broken in two places. At first one other guy was tortured. We heard him being beaten. He was screaming and yelling. Probably it was done so that we would realize that the same thing would happen tous. Then a Ukrainian walked past us with a metal bat in his hand. He walked one way, hit us exactly in the same place in the leg under the kneecap. Well, the leg crunched and there were identical fractures. I mean, he must have had the skill. The bat itself was very unconventional. I understand that it was specifically for torture. There w ind or a metal rod inside. They gave it to me afterwards to clean off the blood. It was psychological pressure in order that I knew what was coming next. He gave me the bat to wash afterwards and said that he would come back tomorrow. He brought a gun and said that he needed not three, but two people. He said: “It is your choice which one of you will kill himself. It's your choice.” It is a psychological pressure. It was good that early in the morning we were taken to another location. The man who was in the cell with me was Boris Andreyevich Stopoliansky. The Ukrainians had him on the first line for a long time. He had shrapnel in his leg, but was forced to run barefoot. He cleared minefields fora month. Then they took him further away. Aman died in front of me in the Ukrainian hospital. When they brought him in, he was like a walking corpse. He just lay on the floor, wheezed and died. Nobody gave him any help. Ukrainian doctors came up and looked at him. He was moving. They leftand he died.” es eeDac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue Gennady Vasilyevich Erokhin “I was taken prisoner at night. That same night they took me blindfolded to a village. The Ukrainian counter-intelligence came and started interrogation. They tied up wires to my right arm and my left leg, and electrocuted me for three hours. When I was lying on the floor they beat me with a truncheon. Iwas put in the pit for a couple of days. Then they took me and 24 other captured men to prison. It took all day. During that day they beat us all the time with a stick or a metal pipe on the head, arms and legs. We were sitting there Blindfolded and tied up. We had bags over our heads. They also were strangling us During the journey we were moved from car to car three times. During the transfer we were beaten again also blindfolded. I heard a tling sound, so I realized it was a belt or a rope with a piece of iron on the end. That's the mark I'm left with. I had broken bones. They beat on the knees and hands mostly. Some guys said that in the detention centre the Ukrainians pierced them with a needle or an awl near their knees. It was such kind of torture.” 11 | Vitaly Vassilyevich Malyukov “When Ukrainians brought me to the basement, they started beating me on my hands deliberately. My bones and nerves were broken. They threw cold water on me. It was freezing in there and they poured cold water on me on purpose. I was blindfolded and I heard the torture saying: “You, bitch, I'll kill you”. Then they handed us over. I was blindfolded all the time. They also handcuffed me. Then they handed us over to some other people again. These people took us out of the car. I could hear that it was on the road. They started hitting me and other prisoners with a pipe. We were lying right on the track about five hours. Maybe they wanted Ukrainian villagers to see that they took prisoners. They said: “Here is a minefield. We would put you on this minefield and then whoever will survive.” Then they brought us to the concentration camp Zapad-1. One guy came to the camp with me. All his fingers were beaten off with a hammer. He had flesh on his foot open. They didn't give him any medical help at all. Later all his toes were amputated, because there was no way out — all his toes were festered. They forced him to walk with cut toes. “Dac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue Kamil Khasbulaevich Alibakharchev “A Ukrainian Armed Forces' soldier made fun of my wound and then spit on it. I was interrogated by a Crimean Tatar from the ‘Kraken’ unit. He told me: “ You are a Muslim, you should kill Russians. I said: “As the famous poct Rasul Gamzatov said, “I am an Avarian in Dagestan, a Dagestani in Russia, but Russian outside of Russia.” They started beating me with bats on my legs and everywhere. They abused me as they wanted. I don’t remember how many days I was there, three or four days. They told me that I sold out my soul, but I said: * It's my homeland and my country, it is my President.” One day one young man and I were put on our knees. Then they kicked me down and the man from the Ukrainian Armed Forces stepped on my foot and said: “This is an old orca. We are going to tear him up now.” Then another one said: “Can I do it? [haven't touched any Russians yet.” He was a Ukrainian, asshole. He came up, hit me with his fist and bounced away. I guess he was afraid, Then he put me down again and stepped on me. It seemed to me that half of them were foreigners there. Then they brought us to the Kharkov pre-trial detention centre. Then the one who brought us there, cut the ribbons that we were tied up with. He said: “Take off the ropes and your hats yourself.” I took them off, and got out of the car. [looked and saw written in Ukrainian 'Chervonnyi Cross “ross. This employee of the Red Cross was the one who beat me. Bastard. looked athim and said: “We might meet again,” In the pre-trial detention centre th referred to me as a fighter from the 'Akhmat' brigade. They beat me with bats. Who pas beat me. I got a bullet here and shrapnel here. I can't bend my arm. My leg is wounded. doctor to take the bullet out. She told me to let the Russians take it out. So they told me to hitme Then I said: “Give me some medicine.” They didn't give me anything. I lay in the cell like a dead man for eight days. There were 40 people in the cell. There were doctors there, young girls. My leg was wounded and one of them beat me on my leg with some iron thing.” Nikolay Sergeevich Khmelev “Itwas in Zaporozhye. When I was brought to the hospital, a Ukrainian nurse put on gloves and just stuck her index finger in my neck, in the hole, and looked me in the eye. Thad a hole in my neck about the size of a finger. There was no anaesthetic orany painkillers. She just stuck her finger in and started picking. She didn't say a word. Then they just poured water on my wound and bandaged it.” ee eeDac ee oa ce CELE oP VU oe US ES Ue Alexander Sergeevich Matsnev “When I was in captivity, the Ukrainians wanted to cut off my finger. At first, they put me in a pick-up truck and took me to a chemical plant Khimzavod. They interrogated me there, then put me back into the pickup truck and drove blindfolded. There was one other prisoner in the truck. At some point on the road they stopped and threw us out of the truck. Iwas led up toa tree. The Armed Forces of Ukraine woman took the second prisoner to the side and shot him. She came up to me and started shooting too, but she shot sideways. She called me all sorts of names. Then the Ukrainian soldiers threw me in the truck again and took me toa house. They shot my finger and then started tasering me and beating me with sticks and a pipe. In the morning, they blindfolded me again and drove to a detention centre. When I was in the cell one of the Ukrainians came in, started calling me names and beat me on my head at first with a bat and then with a plastic pipe. One of the prisoners told me later that Ukrainians cut offhis finger with a knife and tortured him with electric current.” rE) Evgeny Aleksandrovich Korolkov “Masked guys in a jeep came and took us away. They took us toa bam or something and said: “Get on your knees.” We refused, so they forced us Then they started beating us with sticks. When we were already down, they started stomping on our wounds. They could see through my torn clothes that I was bleeding. One Ukrainian stood right on my wound and twisted his foot. He also jumped on my chest up and down. In one day we changed four locations. At each location they did the same torture and videoed everything. They filmed all the beatings. Then they told us to greet their mother or other relatives. We stood there covered in blood. Our hands were tied with a duct tape. The Ukrainians said: “Greet my brother, itis his birthday. Or another one would say: “Tell my mother Glory to Ukraine.” I don't understand why they filmed this. For three days they dragged us around all the houses, beat us, took off my chain with the cross, stuffed it in my mouth and beat me in my jaw.”Dac ee oa ce CELE mewmou, eee U Rear uea) ats or patted peed He said: “Eat your cross until your teeth would crumble.” They beat me specifically for wearing across. After all that abuse they brought us to the Security Service of Ukraine. There were three persons there all wearing masks. One was recording. on the computer, two were asking questions. They said: “Do you hear how people are screaming in here?” They used tasers and batons on us one by one. They did round after round like this. Then they brought in another prisoner and beat him up pretty bad. He was all blue and covered in blood. He sat in his underpants. I don't know why they beat him up like that. As we found out later, he was taken to the hospital. After all that he had his legs amputated. It was clear that the Security Service of Ukraine beat the hell out of him. Then they took us to the pre-trial detention centre in Orekhovo. They brought us to the hospital for examination and told us not to say anything, not to look in anyone's eyes, to look at the floor, The medics said, that they could keep us in the detention centre. They didn't treat our wounds, did not look whether we had splinters. Then they dragged us like kittens round the van, threw us in, threw us out on the pavement. Our hands were tied up.” Vitaly Konstantinovich Chulaevsky “Torture began already at the Sumy border, when I was brought in and put in the pit. Then they started interrogations. They took turns to electrocute me. Then they beat me with their legs and hands. My hands were tied. My ribs were broken and my teeth were knocked out. Then they moved me to the next room. There were two guys from the 9th Regiment sitting there. We went through everything together. They were beaten too. At night the torture continued, people were hung up and beaten with chains and sticks. The Ukrainians looked for the Wagner fighters. They took away our phones, took all accounts, access to the bank cards and social networks. Other men were running it through on computers. I heard that they found one Wagner. I never saw that guy again. Then they took me to the detention centre.” iu) Vitaly Sergeevich Eremin “After being wounded I found myself in the basement. We had just been brought in when the Ukrainians took us away. An armoured car looking like a Bradley arrived. There was a woman sitting there. She spoke Polish. They brought us in. One of the men, a big guy picked me up and threw me off the boot. I flew about six metres. I realized that, in short, I was in trouble. It was going tobe'fun' They threw me ina damp cellar. Then they pulled me out and called ina medic. A young tall guy came in and said: “I'm a medic, let's have a look whether you are wounded. I showed him my heart area. He took something like tweezers and picked the wound. He got a little piece of a cluster projectile. Then he started doing the same many times.” ee eeDac ee oa ce CELE mewmou, Caesars asia atte Seems phere beer I was writhing in pain. An old bloke with a machine gun stood behind me and said: “If you squeak, I'll kill you” I saw the medic pulling my skin off. He found another splinter. Anyway, I lost consciousness. It happened twice. I asked him what he got there? He said: “If you hadn't fainted and fallen down, I would have got another splinter.”I said: “I don't want any more.” I could see he just wanted to mess around. In the concentration camp 'West' there was a guy who had the letter 'B' burned on his forehead by the Azovs. I saw him near the canteen - the guy had a scar. There was another guy, his name was Dimka. The Ukrainians shot his ear. They also buried people. They'd bury them in a hole up to their ks. The prisoner could be there for 24 hours or two days. The; didnot give him any water or anything.” Alexander Nikolayevich Komkov “At first the Ukrainians beat me with their arms and hands, then with sticks, and then it came to the cables used to pull cars, the metal ones. They broke my ribs with metal cables. Then they put me down in a concrete pit, put my feet in a bucket with water and connected two wires with a 380 current from the electrical box. They used a taser to keep me awake and bring me back to consciousness. Then they continued beating with batons, sticks and cables. There were five or six torturers. Their chief told each of them what to do and they carried out his orders of torturing me. Then they brought me to ashed, threw me inside and beat me there. In two days I was brought to the third concrete cellar. The same beating continued there, only now they untied my hands and my eyes. They putme ona chair, tied my hands behind my backandagain beatme with cables, sticks, and, of course, kickedme.” Andrey Timofeyevich Kovalchuk “I was beaten with sticks by the Ukrainians while handcuffed. They kicked and beat me. They had 20-litre canisters in their hands, and beat me with the canisters. They particularly hate Buryats and Yakuts. Other prisoners were electrocuted. One prisoner, also a Khakassian by nationality, was electrocuted and savaged by dogs. Buryats had the harshest tortures. In Kharkov in the pre-trial detention centre I was beaten first because I am a Buryat. Then I was beaten in Vinnitsa. It was also in the detention centre. They beat me because I was a Buryat and had the Ukrainian surname Kovalchuk.” ee © ee