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Russian torture in occupied Ukraine was 'arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine'
Hot Air ^ | October 21, 2022 | John Sexton

Posted on 10/21/2022 2:51:11 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

A report published yesterday which documents the routine use of torture in Izium, a small city in eastern Ukraine which was recently recaptured after months of Russian occupation. The Associated Press sent reporters to the city and spoke with residents who identified 10 locations which had been used by Russians to torture both Ukrainian military personnel and civilians.

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Russian torture in Izium was arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine for both civilians and soldiers throughout the city, an Associated Press investigation has found.

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Based on accounts of survivors and police, AP journalists located 10 torture sites in the town and gained access to five of them. They included a deep sunless pit in a residential compound with dates carved in the brick wall, a clammy underground jail that reeked of urine and rotting food, a medical clinic, a police station and a kindergarten…

At a mass grave site created by the Russians and discovered in the woods of Izium, at least 30 of the 447 bodies recently excavated bore visible marks of torture — bound hands, close gunshot wounds, knife wounds and broken limbs, according to the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office.

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Women were held in the garage closest to the soldiers’ quarters. Their screams came at night, according to Mosyakyn and Kotsar, who were both held at the clinic at different times. Ukrainian intelligence officials said they were raped regularly.

For the men, Room 6 was for electrocution. Room 9 was for waterboarding, Mosyakyn said. He described how they covered his face with a cloth bag and poured water from a kettle onto him to mimic the sensation of drowning. They also hooked up his toes to electricity and shocked him with electrodes on his ears.

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Rape and torture are longtime traditions within Russian military culture.
1 posted on 10/21/2022 2:51:11 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Thank goodness Abu Ghraib and black prisons in 3rd world countries was just make believe.


2 posted on 10/21/2022 2:52:12 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Timber Rattler

How are those J6 guys doing? Just asking?


3 posted on 10/21/2022 2:53:48 PM PDT by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: Timber Rattler
I saved two of the Ukrainian torture videos on my laptop, in case the ICC is ever interested in them.

*crickets* *crickets*
4 posted on 10/21/2022 2:54:38 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Timber Rattler

Nothing more than projection.

“...arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine”

Yep, about as “arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine” as Ukraine shelling civilians, hospitals, schools, etc.


5 posted on 10/21/2022 2:56:48 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Timber Rattler

“visible marks of torture — bound hands, close gunshot wounds, knife wounds and broken limbs, according to the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office.”

Binding hands is not a form of torture, nor are close gunshot wounds.


6 posted on 10/21/2022 3:00:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Timber Rattler

... you are keeping good company

7 posted on 10/21/2022 3:05:19 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Timber Rattler

Gee that makes me feel better


8 posted on 10/21/2022 3:19:08 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Timber Rattler; All

Oh the horror. Who cares? This is the sort of dog excrement white middle class ‘goood’ people love to pee on themselves in righteous horror over. White middle class women in particular. Do you honestly care and specifically why. Or you just pushing the globalist ‘oh the humanity’ narrative?


10 posted on 10/21/2022 3:20:11 PM PDT by robowombat (contemporary )
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To: cranked

I think you have the Russians confused with the Ukrainians


11 posted on 10/21/2022 3:20:20 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Timber Rattler

Those who lie for the Russians are on the side of the Russians for their terrorism and invasions. They take joy in what the Russians are doing and would obviously help the Russians commit the crimes. They are not pacifists.


12 posted on 10/21/2022 3:22:08 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Timber Rattler

Propaganda from Ukraine is ‘arbitrary, widespread and absolutely routine’


13 posted on 10/21/2022 3:23:16 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Timber Rattler

I guess you all missed the Ukrainian brutal murdering of Russian POWs, the medical castrations of Russian POWS, the murder and rape of Russian women in Mariupol, swastikas carved out on their bodies, etc.? All the civilians, old men, women, children murdered by their snipers, both men and women snipers? All the little mines spread throughout civilian areas that resemble little leafs and toys? 8 strait years of murdering Russian civilians by Ukrainian government forces funded by the United States.

Hypocrites, whitewashed tombs full of dead mens’ bones.


14 posted on 10/21/2022 3:29:01 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: Brian Griffin
Binding hands is not a form of torture, nor are close gunshot wounds.


15 posted on 10/21/2022 3:29:06 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Kaiser8408a
Kaiser8408a
Since Oct 11, 2022

Welcome to Free Republic.

16 posted on 10/21/2022 3:30:25 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: robowombat
Oh the horror. Who cares?

So you're A-OK with World War II-level evil, right?

17 posted on 10/21/2022 3:31:19 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler; Kaiser8408a
Welcome to Free Republic.

Welcome back to Free Republic, NeverTrump.

Here to sow dissension as revenge against MAGA? Hmmmmmmmmmm?

18 posted on 10/21/2022 3:37:46 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Timber Rattler

I care. How do others not care?

Being humane and loving is natural and good.

“Love one another”


19 posted on 10/21/2022 3:39:19 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Timber Rattler

None of our business. Let’s worry about the transgendering of American children in America.


20 posted on 10/21/2022 3:40:20 PM PDT by nwrep
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