Ukraine/Death squad

Ukraine/Death squad (Death squad,  Project AERODYNAMIC)
Interest of	• George Eliason • Natalya Vovk
Ukrainian death squads, like all units of similar kind trained by the United States, carry out extrajudicial killings and torture.

Ukrainian death squads (sometimes also called punisher battalions) have mostly been referred to as (irregular) "right-wing" militias by the commercially-controlled media, or something akin to that. The Azov battalion being the one which gets most often mentioned. Since their genesis in 2014 they have strongly integrated with the regular troops of Ukraine. Members of these groups are connected to the creation of the Ukrainian kill list, which had a focus on "enemy collaborators" in the Donbas in the beginning.

Background

Events in Ukraine since 2014 have to be seen in connection with Project AERODYNAMIC.

Official narrative

"They are what they are."

“Bret Baier: I want to have you clear something up for us. And this is these reports about the Azov battalion that is said to be a Nazi affiliated organization, operating as a militia in your country, said to be committing their own atrocities. What should Americans know about that unit, about those reports?

Volodymyr Zelensky: So Azov was one of those many battalions. They are what they are. They were defending our country. [Zelensky continues to explain that these volunteer organizations were later incorporated into the military and are not a self governing structure anymore] Back in 2014 there were situations when our volunteers were encircled and some of them did violate laws, laws of Ukraine and they were actually taken to court and got prison sentences.”
Bret Baier,  Volodymyr Zelensky (2 April 2022) 

Concerns

Israel Is Arming Ukraine's Blatantly Neo-Nazi Militia the Azov Battalion - TRNN

It is known that foreign advisors have trained them; the training most likely included counterinsurgency tactics, possibly the application of torture techniques and these advisors must then have turned a blind eye to ongoing or resulting war crimes. Some members of these groups may not have taken part in criminal activity and fought as regular soldiers, however, almost every member of these groups, as well as to some extent the Ukrainian military at large, must have known that crimes of the kind (extrajudicial killings and torture) were carried out.

Einars Graudins reported in 2014 (from automated translation):

In Donetsk, we were told that Ukrainian fighters killed civilians for nothing. In the morgue we were shown the bodies of a husband and wife who had been shot in the river. The couple was driving along the road. They were stopped by mercenaries of the Ukrainian army, dragged out of the car, shot and the bodies thrown into the river. The military took the car and money.

[...]

We had a long conversation with women from the village of Nizhnyaya Krynka. They themselves approached us with a request that we listen to them. The stories of these women shook me to the core. Personally, I stood there like a stumbling block and could not find any words. I was simply numbed by the grief that these women had experienced.

[...]

They said that mercenaries from the Azov and Donbass battalions subjected all the women in the village to frequent gang rapes. The victims of abuse were teenage girls from 12 years old and elderly women.

In front of me stood one of such victims - a girl of 13 years old. She was thin, weak, with a hunted look. Her mother told me that Ukrainian fighters had raped her daughter several times. The grief of the mother cannot be conveyed in words. She literally screamed with horror.

The women also said that their houses were looted. ATO fighters were lining up at the post office to send the loot to their homes.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Aidar Battalion	Neo Nazi Army battalion in Ukraine
Azov Battalion	The not be talked about neo-nazi army battalion Ukraine used to fight against the Russian military in the Donbass and Ukraine. Its existence is highly talked down in western media, even though the UN accused them multiple times of war crimes, including electrocuting and raping men.
Donbas Battalion	Volunteer paramilitary unit formed during the early stages of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, responsible for war crimes.
Myrotvorets	Website that publishes private information of "the enemies of Ukraine"; sometimes referred to as Ukrainian kill list.
Right Sector/Paramilitary wing	Paramilitary wing of Right Sector responsible for many war crimes.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Death squad	“So what the US military advisors do, is to teach the people in the country how to organize themselves, and how to carry out missions, and how to keep their mouths shut about missions, and how to be more "professional" in the jobs that the ingenious troops want to carry out anyway. [...] It wasn't quite that the American advisors said thou shall create a death squad and you gonna report to me, no. What they said was: here is how to organize yourself, to conduct missions and don't report to me, because I don't want to know it.”	Christopher Simpson	2014
Petro Poroshenko	“we [in Ukraine] will have work they – [in the Donbas] won’t. We will have pensions – they won’t. We will care for our children and pensioners – they won’t. Our children will go to school, to kindergartens – their children will sit in cellars*. They don’t know how to organize or do anything. This, ultimately, is how we will win this war.”	Petro Poroshenko	October 2014
War party	“The Americans want war. The people that Biden has appointed have an emotional hatred of Russia. I’ve spoken to government people who are close to the Democratic Party, and they’ve told me that there’s a pathological emotional desire for war with Russia, largely stemming from the fact that the Tzars were anti-Semitic and there’s still the hatred about their ancestors: “Look what they did to my great-grandfather.” And so they’re willing to back the Nazis, back the anti-Semites in Ukraine. They’re willing to back today’s anti-Semites all over the world as long as they’re getting back at this emotional focus on a kind of post 19th-century economy. I’ve met these people. Their emotion is one of hatred and anger. You can look at their face and see what they’ve become. This is really dangerous. They are crazy. And Putin is quite right. America has got its power by breaking contracts.”	Michael Hudson	24 March 2021

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:War Crimes	Article	9 October 2022	Jacob Dreizin	An article that was written on the occurrence of the disposal of civilians posted in video by Maksim Zhorin.
File:White Book-2.pdf	report	June 2014	Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs	White Book update - on violations of human rights and the rule of law in Ukraine between April and mid-June 2014
File:White Book.pdf	report	5 May 2014	Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs	A White Book on violations of human rights and the rule of law in Ukraine since November 2013, released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 5 May 2014

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