(The execution of this man is not in the video)
The man videoed being mercilessly tortured by a Russian militant has been recognized by local residents who confirm that the man was Alexei F., a resident of Komunar (on the outskirts of Makiyivka) who, ironically, had himself supported the Kremlin-backed rebels back in 2014. The residents say that he vanished in October-November 2014 and it has now, unfortunately, become clear what happened to him.
The video* is harrowing to listen to, let alone to watch. It appears to show a (masked) Russian national known as Olkhon lashing a man tied to a post whom the tormentor claims is a drug dealer.
As one blogger notes, in Ukraine a drug dealer would be sentenced at most to a few years imprisonment.
Here he is savagely lashed, with his tormentors yelling at him to answer more quickly. Under such circumstances a person will confess to anything meaning that there is no evidence that the man had actually done anything at all.
Not for the first time, such crimes are being exposed as a result of brutal battles between different groups of militants. In this case it is people from a band calling itself the Troy special purpose unit which came into bloody conflict with fighters loyal to Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR] in January. The website IV Vlada reports that as a result of this conflict, 94 fighters from the Troy unit are missing and were presumably killed.
The man videoed being mercilessly tortured by a Russian militant has been recognized by local residents who confirm that the man was Alexei F., a resident of Komunar (on the outskirts of Makiyivka) who, ironically, had himself supported the Kremlin-backed rebels back in 2014. The residents say that he vanished in October-November 2014 and it has now, unfortunately, become clear what happened to him.
The video* is harrowing to listen to, let alone to watch. It appears to show a (masked) Russian national known as Olkhon lashing a man tied to a post whom the tormentor claims is a drug dealer.
As one blogger notes, in Ukraine a drug dealer would be sentenced at most to a few years imprisonment.
Here he is savagely lashed, with his tormentors yelling at him to answer more quickly. Under such circumstances a person will confess to anything meaning that there is no evidence that the man had actually done anything at all.
Not for the first time, such crimes are being exposed as a result of brutal battles between different groups of militants. In this case it is people from a band calling itself the Troy special purpose unit which came into bloody conflict with fighters loyal to Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DNR] in January. The website IV Vlada reports that as a result of this conflict, 94 fighters from the Troy unit are missing and were presumably killed.
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