Considered heroes in Ukraine, these prisoners of war see their chances of being exchanged to fall. Fifty-three of them have already perished in prison in controversial circumstances.
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“They deserve a humiliating death” terrorist organization “The Ukrainian elite regiment Azov, Tuesday August 2, thus paving the path for legal proceedings before Russian courts of captured Ukrainian prisoners. During the deliberation session , postponed on several occasions and which was held in camera, the court heard witnesses reporting crimes at the limit of the grotesque. According to the president of the Moscow prisons surveillance commission, Gueorgui Volkov, a Ukrainian soldier who The prisoner had formed that cannibalism was practiced within Azov, reports the official media Radio Sputnik. The abuses attributed to the regiment by Russia have not been the subject of independent checks and rest wrapped in mystery .
“They deserve humiliating death”
Vilified by the leaders and the media of power, considered as “neonazis” guilty of “war crimes”, the Azov fighters incur sentences up to twenty years in prison, even the death penalty. A Tweet of the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom published on July 29 indicated that “Azov activists deserve to be executed, not by a peloton, but by hanging, because they are not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death “.
💬#Azov militants deserve execution, but Death not by firing squad but by hanging, because they are not real soldiers… https://t.co/a2ifiadddn
On the same day, 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, most of them belonging to the Azov regiment, were murdered in troubled circumstances, in a prison located in Olenivka, in an occupied area, under Russian control.
The Azov regiment, which has 2,500 members, trains the keystone of the official Russian story justifying the invasion of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin presented the “denazification of Ukraine” as the main objective of his “special military operation”, par with the need to “disarm” this country. At its origins, in 2014, the “Azov volunteer battalion” was led by a group of far -right radicals. But, in November of the same year, this paramilitary training, which became a regiment, was incorporated as an elite unit within the National Guard of the Ministry of the Interior. Consequently, the new Azov officials have denied the original ideology.
a historic amalgam
Russian propaganda has not stopped, however, for eight years to exploit the initial sulphurous reputation of the battalion to carry out a historic amalgam with Ukrainian units having fought alongside the Nazis during the Second World War. Azov’s importance is exaggerated in order to project a “neonazia” shadow on the Ukrainian army and government, completely distinct entities.
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