Police identify Russian National Guard soldiers who tortured people near Bucha – photo
Police have identified the Russian special forces officers of OMON (Special Purposes Mobile Unit) and SOBR (Special Rapid Response Unit) who tortured villagers in the Bucha district in March last year.
Source: Kyiv Oblast National Police
Details: The police report that on 19 March 2022, during the occupation of the Bucha district, the Russians came under artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Under the pretext of searching for artillery observers, they captured four residents of the village of Zdvyzhivka.
At the time of the detention, two of the victims were at home, while the others were walking home from their relatives. None of them had weapons and did not show aggression towards the Russians, but one of the detainees had a photo of Russian military equipment dated 25 February 2022 - in fact, three weeks before the shelling.
Quote: "This became a pretext to unreasonably seize, tie up and take the victims to a barn on the outskirts of the village for interrogation. There, they were held for over a day in below-zero temperatures and, imitating an execution, demanded to identify which of them was the artillery observer.
Having received no answer, the occupiers took one of the prisoners to a forest belt, where they beat him for half an hour with their feet and rifle butts, then doused him with petrol and first imitated burning him, and then fired machine guns over his head."
More details: After that, the people were released on the grounds that the artillery observers had been found and killed by other Russian soldiers.
The police identified the brigade, special forces and the Russians who tortured the residents of Zdvyzhivka. These were the OMON and SOBR special forces officers of the Russian Guard of Krasnoyarsk Krai of the Russian Federation. They were led by the commander of the OMON of Russia’s Main Directorate of Internal Affairs in Krasnoyarsk Krai. It was he who gave orders for the abduction, illegal detention and torture of citizens.
He was notified of suspicion of cruel treatment of civilians and ordered to commit such acts (Art. 438.1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), which is punishable by imprisonment for a term of eight to twelve years.
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