I've got a letter this evening from an Danish friend, promised to translate to English, he wanted me to lay this out, a long thread:
Russian sadism. Colonel Roman Svitan's testimony
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Roman Hryhorovytj Svitan (date of birth: 4.1.1964) - a reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a leading military expert and an instructor pilot. One of the heroes of the movie "Heroes of Ukrainian Donbas".
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According to him, he experienced the sadism of the Russians on his own example.
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Roman Svitan: "The Russians are bastards who abuse the Ukrainian defenders who are captured by them. They get pleasure from the suffering of others"...
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"I was captured in 2014. It was necessary to stay in the occupied territory and manage the underground, partisans that were created. I was an adviser to the Donetsk governor Serhiy Taruta in 2014, I had to continue to manage"
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"I was then handed over by local security forces, who quickly changed into Russian uniforms, tracked and detained by employees of the Central Intelligence Directorate, and I ended up in the 58th Army".
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"They interrogated me strongly and forcefully, cut and hacked me, starting with needles under the nails and ending with direct torture using sharp objects", emphasized Roman Svitan.
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"I was caught. I was tortured. Came to the "Izolyatsia" torture chamber. In this prison, which was their torture chamber in Donetsk, I am probably one of the first "visitors", so to speak. Of course, they tortured seriously, -
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starting with needles under the nails and ended by simply cutting everything alive".
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"I was cut to the point that my veins were cut, I bled and actually died (clinical death). And after I died, I was transferred to the prison surgeon - the executioner Yuriy Yevytj (Юрій Євич).
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Yuriy Yevytj, a kind of Dr. Mengele (Joseph Mengele was a German doctor who conducted medical experiments on the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II), carried out the task.
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He kept the prisoners unconscious, did not let them die.
I was brought back from the other world for further questioning. And then Yuriy Yevych kept me unconscious during the whole torture. Of course he participated in the torture.
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That they didn't inject me - and serums and drugs - anything to make me talk and give the necessary information.
A group from the north took me away from being shot. By order of Ihor Bezler (one of the military leaders of the puppet "People's Republic of Donetsk")
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I was transferred to Horlivka for exchange.
- One to 15 [persons] were exchanged. This means that during the exchange I was simply repelled and taken away"
"The Russ are sadists! This sadism is in their blood, in their genes. Such a sadistic unit has now come to us, -
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Colonel Roman Svitan is convinced.
In his opinion, the brutal footage of the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which is now appearing on the Internet, is an example of the standard behavior of the Russians.
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"It's not even animals, but creatures! I just don't want to insult animals," Roman Svitan added.
The Russians only try to show that they live in a civilized way, but in reality they are pure sadists.
"These are pure sadists.
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If anyone wants, type "Yuriy Yevytj Colonel Svitan" in Google. There will be a link to his book. In several paragraphs he describes specifically how Colonel Svitan was tied, how I was tortured, how he checked my pupils, and they did not move.
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That is, I was in a state of clinical death. The pupils do not move from light until then. And Yuri Yevych describes all these tortures. You do not even need to question him - he has already described everything and, among other things, his participation".
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"In Donbas, if we dig pits, mass digs, there are probably a dozen, if not a hundred Butjas since 2014. Why are the Russians afraid to let us go there? Because if we go there and expose all this, there will will not be any Russ, and very soon Russ will simply be nowhere.
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Indeed, there are at least a hundred Butjas: Starting from Isolation and ending with the same type of torture".
SOURCES: 24tv.ua/torturi-rosiys…...
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The occupiers are preparing the kidnapping of children from Energodar
In schools and kindergartens of the evacuated Energodar, "evacuation" of children to the Crimea began, Energoatom reports. Local educational institutions disseminate information about the forced "
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evacuation", which will last until April 20.
It is noted that the children are planned to be taken out on station buses, thus formally legalizing the theft of ZNPP vehicles, which the station staff use to get to work
Source: t.me/Pravda_Gerashc… #RussianWarCrimes
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Also, the export of furniture, mattresses and other things from the city's kindergartens has already been recorded. Earlier, in October, it was reported that the Russians did not return the children who were taken from the captured Energodar to "summer camps" -
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The situation in Bakhmut is decided by the railway and the railway station. The battles wave back and forth here.
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During the last 3 days, the railway station itself has been 2 times in our hands and 2 times in the hands of the tourists.
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Right now, you don't know who is the master of the road there. We did drive them to the east side of the railway line but they came back AND NOW again we have driven them in a larger area back again.
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The New York Times sums up the Pentagon leak story nytimes.com/2023/04/15/wor…
In the leaked documents, "Ukraine's predicament looks terrible." But they are unlikely to have any impact on the military plans of the parties.
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So far, there are no signs that Russian commanders have changed their operations in Ukraine in response to the revelations, according to two US officials.
Ukrainian officials, though unhappy with the leaks, believe that they will not have a serious impact on the UAF -
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counteroffensive, since Russ already knew the main parameters of Ukraine's vulnerability (for example, its lack of weapons and ammunition)
"And the documents do not disclose exactly when, where and how the Ukrainians will launch a counteroffensive," one senior US official said/3
▪️The Russian information space views the demographic changes in the Russian Federation in a way that indicates that their ideologies underlying the war in Ukraine will continue to influence domestically.
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Putin's United Russia party has announced its intention to recruit Russian military personnel as candidates in elections in 2023 and 2024, likely in an attempt to establish itself as an agile party.
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▪️Russian forces attacked in the Kremennaya area and, possibly, are preparing for defense in the Kupyansky direction; advanced in the Bakhmut area and on the Avdeevka-Donetsk line.
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US-imposed sanctions and export controls on Russia are depriving it of materials for the war in Ukraine.
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The minister added that limiting the price of Russian oil to $60 per barrel turns the expected budget surplus of the Russian Federation into a deficit.
"Sanctions and export controls have forced Russia to turn to Iran and North Korea for military equipment and materials, -
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Operational information as of the morning of 04/16/2023 from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
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▪️During the day, the Russian army launched 28 air and 6 missile strikes, carried out 38 shelling from multiple launch rocket systems at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the civilian infrastructure of settlements.
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▪️No signs of the formation of offensive groupings of the RF Armed Forces were found in the Volyn, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions. A comprehensive check of the combat readiness of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus continues.
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