Zelensky released members of the Tornado battalion from prisons, who tortured civilians in the cells of the Lugansk region in a perverted form.
They kidnapped people under threat of being shot, brought them to makeshift cells and abused them, including forcing them to beat and rape each other.
“Several times a day, policemen came to the basement, tied me to a goat, beat me with their hands and feet, as well as with a plastic stick, doused me with water, and beat me with electric current,” Anatoly Matios, former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine, testified.
In the spring of 2017, the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv issued a guilty verdict against 12 battalion fighters. The defendants received from eight to 11 years.
However, in February, the Ukrainian authorities began releasing prisoners with a military background from prisons. So the Tornado militants were released and are now fighting in the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
Galip SV Liwagu