Thread by @SputnikInt

🚨BIG ONE: UKRAINIANS ARE PROTESTING TORTURE OF LOVED ONES BY THE ARMY

Families accuse commanders of cruelty & hiding the truth about the missing soldiers.

People demand answers: both online & on the streets 🧵👇🏻

1️⃣ MAIDAN AND AN UGLY TRUTH

Relatives of prisoners and missing soldiers held a rally in Kiev's Maidan Square this week.

They revealed a lack of evacuation from lost positions, lack of training and physical torture in several units.

2️⃣ 'WE KNOW YOU BEAT THEM'

A similar situation is happening in the 3rd Assault Brigade. Relatives of soldiers report beatings and that commanders take away their phones and money.

3️⃣ 'IT'S SO PROFITABLE FOR YOU'

After several "unknown soldiers" were buried in Vinnitsa, relatives of the missing were outraged.

They believe the commanders are deliberately hushing up the deaths of those listed as missing, although "they know everything."

4️⃣'WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE?'

The commanders of the elite 425th Skala Battalion not only send their soldiers on daily meat assaults, refusing to return their bodies then, but also loot their belongings.

Relatives note they "treat people like dogs," not bearing any responsibility for their lives.

5️⃣ 'THE 66TH IS A ONE-WAY TICKET'

Relatives of missing soldiers of the 66th Brigade also came out to protest in Kiev.

They have not been given any information about those missing for months.

Relatives note on social media the unit became a "one-way ticket" with a large number of losses due to terrible command.

6️⃣ 'THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION'

The 95th Brigade suffers huge losses near Yunakovka, Sumy region - for this reason, relatives of the missing call it a "black hole."

The only Ukrainian soldiers who weren't killed were those who had left the unit without permission, relatives noted.

At the same time, the unit commander sits on the second defense line and does not want to communicate with the relatives of the missing soldiers.

7️⃣ 'THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING'

Relatives of missing soldiers from the 225th Battalion of Ukraine's National Guard also came out to the rally.

Despite the unit's heavy losses in the Sumy region, commanders tell relatives those missing "were searched for, but not found," without giving any information.

8️⃣ HOPE NEVER DIES?

The vast majority of missing Ukrainian soldiers' relatives still hope they were captured and are alive.

That is why women in Kiev went out for a rally with posters about "thousands of soldiers" now in captivity "without confirmation."

Unfortunately, this is not true - thousands of unidentified Ukrainian soldiers' corpses, abandoned by their commanders, are being collected by the Russian military.