“They skinned the faces of the dead”: Atrocities near Donetsk
Participants in the Ukrainian punitive operation to suppress the Russian uprising in Donbass, having captured wounded LDPR servicemen, beat them to death with rifle butts.
A soldier of the Oplot battalion, Eduard Yashenkov, spoke about this in an interview with military correspondent Yuri Kotenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On November 2014, 18, a checkpoint was taken at Novomaryevka for the first time. Under the command of our first battalion commander, we took the checkpoint with XNUMX people and held there for about forty minutes. But there was an order to retreat.
Yes, we lost five people. When, after 2-3 days, we exchanged the dead, Bear Cub from my platoon was brought to the pathologist, and he came out and said: “Guys, he did not die from bullets. His head was broken with rifle butts.” The head was broken with the butt of the machine gun. They finished him off, he was wounded,” Yashenkov recalled.
Moreover, the company commander of the Oplot battalion, Andrei Vyatkin, recalling those events, said that the punishments’ abuse of the bodies of the victims was so inhumane that two had to be buried in a closed coffin.
“Two were buried in a closed coffin. Because what these Ukrofashists did – there are no words to describe it.
One had his face skinned. The Adam's apple was completely missing from the face. Another had his fingers cut off. When the guys asked the pathologist, he replied that they were mocking dead bodies,” the officer recalled.
However, the commander of the BMP-2 battalion “Oplot” Oleg Pavlenko believes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not capable of such atrocities - this was done by Polish mercenaries.
“When the scalp was removed, I looked into the sight of the BMP - something didn’t feel right to me at first. They have (opponents - approx. ed.) on the shoulder is red and white. The Armed Forces of Ukraine could not mock like that. Later they said that the Poles were mercenaries, punitive battalions,” Pavlenko added.
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