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Pro-Kremlin neo-Nazi militia inciting the torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners
The Guardian ^ | October 2, 2022 | Mark Townsend

Posted on 10/02/2022 4:55:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

A neo-Nazi pro-Kremlin group active in Ukraine is inciting atrocities against prisoners of war and explicitly advocates the torture of captives including “removing body parts”. The self-styled “Task Force Rusich” is fighting in Ukraine on behalf of the Kremlin and is linked to the notorious Wagner Group mercenaries.

A message on Rusich’s Telegram channel sent on 22 September advocates the “destruction of prisoners on the spot”.

Adam Hadley, executive director of Tech Against Terrorism, a London-based initiative supported by the United Nations, said: “Rusich, an openly neo-Nazi group highly likely operating on behalf of the Kremlin, has promoted the commission of war crimes in the conflict.

“Despite Putin’s claims, the actions of Rusich in the conflict demonstrate the concerning prominence of neo-Nazi groups committing atrocities on behalf of the Kremlin.”

Rusich fighters, known for their brutality in Syria and the 2014 war in Crimea, have been spotted on open sources in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Kherson and in the Kharkiv region.

The US Treasury department announced on 15 September that it was taking economic measures against Rusich, which it linked it to the Wagner Group. It described Rusich as “a neo-Nazi paramilitary group that has participated in combat alongside Russia’s military in Ukraine”.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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To: tlozo

They always deny and claim the other side is the culprit. Remember they story Russians selling women and children in the Gulf? The puppets denied it and said it was Ukrainians.


21 posted on 10/02/2022 5:43:02 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Timber Rattler

Who is the victim? Why is he wearing an Russian issued underwear? Why the perp is wearing the rare sneakers belonging to the Ukrainian Olympic team?
Why video is produced to sideline previous video of similar torture of known victims by known Ukrainian servicemen.


22 posted on 10/02/2022 5:43:35 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: tlozo

Was this made by the Palestinians?
Where is a single drop of blood?


23 posted on 10/02/2022 5:53:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Timber Rattler

24 posted on 10/02/2022 5:56:38 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Timber Rattler

Any “news” coming out of the British press must be taken with a ton of salt.


25 posted on 10/02/2022 6:02:52 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Chode

RUSSIA is the one behaving just like the Nazis

Russia is attacking & invading neighboring countries ... just like the Nazis

Russia is the one claiminh “historical injustices” that “need to be corrected” ... just like the Nazis

Russia is trying to annex new land into the “greater Reich” ... just like the Nazis

Russia always play the victim, claims it “was forced to invade” by Allied countries “ganging up on it” ... just like the Nazis

Russia *IS* Nazi Germany for the 21st Century!!


26 posted on 10/02/2022 6:07:30 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Ukraine.

Look, being a Nazi and Russian is like admitting publicly in the US you’re in the Klu Klux Clan, pray to the devil, eat puppies, and like little children way too much.

The Russians fought the Nazis. 20 million Russians died, 600 cities were leveled, there isn’t a Russian family that didn’t have family die fighting them - literally.

On the flip side, Ukraine was fertile recruiting grounds for the SS which raised entire divisions fighting on their side.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)

This is an attempt at creating a reciprocal argument and in America where folks are clueless, and you can convince people that their are 20+ genders, race doesn’t exist, women are equal to men, aids isn’t a homosexual disease, climate change is real, Russian Nazis is a story that might actually get believed by someone.

If you’re in Russia and were to openly proclaim to be a Nazi, I would bet money you’d get you ass kicked, the first day.


27 posted on 10/02/2022 6:09:42 AM PDT by Red6
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To: EEGator
Where is a single drop of blood?

Many were executed by the Russians in other spots, and then dumped together.

Iryna Abramova, a resident of Bucha, describes her harrowing experience with the Russian military. She told The Media Line how Russian troops last month came to the house where she lived with her husband, Oleg; her father, Volodymyr, lived on the other side of the shared house.

She said when Russian soldiers threw a grenade at her house, she heard a big explosion and much of the house was destroyed, so she and her husband hid in her father’s part of the house.

“My husband shouted that we are civilians and asked them not to shoot,” she said. They were terrified as a Russian soldier screamed at them to come out of the house with their hands up.

“Why are you hiding?” the soldiers asked.

“We are scared, because you shoot,” the couple responded.

“Don’t you see that we are Russians, we have St. George ribbons, we came to liberate you. Who else is hiding with you?” the soldiers asked.

Clutching her husband’s arm, Iryna Abramova replied: “There are only three of us.”

The Russian soldiers then screamed at them, asking where are the “Nazis,” she said, adding that she told the soldiers: “There are no Nazis here.”

Their house was ablaze from the grenade and Oleg ran to put out the fire, but he was blocked by the soldiers.

Abramova says they took her husband outside of their home, stripped him of his sweatshirt, tied his hands behind his back, and forced him to his knees. The Russian soldiers then shot her husband in the back of his head, execution style. She pointed to dark blood stains frozen on the sidewalk, which still had not seeped into the ground or evaporated, evidence of what had taken place.

“They blew off half of his head with a direct shot,” Abramova said.

She said she ran in the direction of her husband, who was lying in a pool of his own blood, but she was stopped by a soldieR.

“He aimed his gun at me. I had a cat in my lap, and I told him to shoot both me and my cat,” she said. The soldier replied: “We don’t shoot women.”

Fighting back tears, Abramova said the soldier walked up to her three times and each time aimed his gun at her head.

“We came to liberate you, since all of you here are bastards. You and your authorities that you brought to power. We have to eliminate all of you, since you are evil,” she says the soldier told her.

Agitated, the soldiers then gave them three minutes to “get out of here or we’ll kill you,” before her father intervened and pulled her away.

“We left the house without taking anything. We left without documents, without money. They ordered us to leave,” she said.

Iryna Abramova points to the spot where her husband was killed last month, and where his blood still stains the sidewalk in front of their home in Bucha, Ukraine on April 5, 2022.

https://themedialine.org/top-stories/bucha-resident-recounts-brutal-execution-of-her-husband/

28 posted on 10/02/2022 6:09:56 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: tlozo

It was kind of them so that no man’s face could be seen for identification. Quite lucky, don’t you think?...

That lady would say anything for a ham sandwich and a bottle of booze.


29 posted on 10/02/2022 6:12:32 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red6
If you’re in Russia and were to openly proclaim to be a Nazi, I would bet money you’d get you ass kicked, the first day.

Dmitry Utkin, alleged commander of Russia's Wagner proxy, with Nazi tattoos clearly visible

https://aijac.org.au/fresh-air/russia-sends-its-pet-neo-nazis-to-kill-zelensky-while-claiming-to-want-to-denazify-ukraine/

30 posted on 10/02/2022 6:22:10 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: EEGator
It was kind of them so that no man’s face could be seen for identification.

Journalists generally don't post faces of murdered dead people. No one wants relatives to be notified that way.

31 posted on 10/02/2022 6:26:58 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: tlozo

So they just miraculously all had their faces shown away?
That photo is bullshit propaganda.
Straight out of the Palestinian handbook.
I’m sure there’s real terrible things that have occurred, but that is staged.


32 posted on 10/02/2022 6:30:07 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Timber Rattler

One more reason war can not be the answer. Once the dogs of war are unleased...


33 posted on 10/02/2022 6:30:58 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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This crap has been going on between the rus and the slavs for what 650 700 years? Back and forth, sometimes even tolerable and protective of one another.

Historically is it yet again a continuation of bygone animosities? Modern weaponry has asymetrically changed the warfare tactically in the short term. Strategically speaking remains to be seen or enacted. Everything seems fast & loose during this sanguineous and unstable conflagration.

What is it called at the WH? Strategic ambiguity? Indeed. But... our ship of state is a global laughing stock. My gawd! It’s the Dr. Strangelove scenario!


34 posted on 10/02/2022 6:36:46 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: EEGator
So they just miraculously all had their faces shown away?

Examine the picture again. One face is clearly looking up and another is looking to the left. The photographer took the picture from a low angle so that the face looking up wouldn't be recognizable.

35 posted on 10/02/2022 6:37:01 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: McGruff

Any “news” coming out of the British press must be taken with a ton of salt.


As if the Kremlin did not invent Fake News.


36 posted on 10/02/2022 6:38:21 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Timber Rattler

Nazi anything in Russia is like waving a red flag before a bull.

It gets a visceral reaction.

These are the people that bled more than anyone on the planet fighting the Nazis. They lost about (((40 TIMES))) as many people as we did in this war and think about how many relatives you lost (my grandfathers brother is buried in Normandy)!

We may have been the arsenal of democracy in WWII, but the Russians provided the bodies and paid in blood. Linking them with the Nazis, that’s an insult of epic proportions. I would bet more money on the fact that Putin himself lost family in this war, that near every general and soldier in their armed forces lost family fighting the Nazis. Now we’re linking them to the Nazis. Hahaha

These are the sort of stories that are amusing. It’s right up there with a pro-abortion story about a 14 year old girl wanting an abortion because she’s pregnant from being raped by her uncle and the baby has downs syndrome. It’s a case where you take some freak exception which comprises .01% of the general population and use that as the example to try to create some perception and rule. It might actually even be true, but it’s not representative of anything really. It merely fits a narrative: Russia bad, Ukraine good.

Russian Nazis... Hahaha

Why not? Maybe a story of Putin being an occult member is next? I’m sure the history channel can make a story. Maybe Putin is an alien?!?!

When I was young, this sort of stuff was a joke. I never knew this would be taken serious and be called “news!”

https://youtu.be/rdw1ZK585RU


37 posted on 10/02/2022 6:47:33 AM PDT by Red6
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To: McGruff

There is video and photo evidence of Nazi soldiers in RuSSia.

And they are worse than Azov.


38 posted on 10/02/2022 6:51:28 AM PDT by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: McGruff

As I’ve said from the beginning.

The Russian media and government are lying to us.
The Ukrainian media and government are lying to us.
The USA media and government are damn sure lying to us. If you’re on FR and don’t agree with this, you’re in the wrong place.
The Brit media and government are lying to us.
The EU media and government are lying to us.

Etc.

In war, the first casualty is the truth.

One thing we are fairly certain of, is that Joe and Hunter Biden were getting all sorts of graft via Ukraine during the Obama Administration. And we must support Ukraine because the Democrats, NeoCons, and globalists tell us so.

This does not constitute a compelling reason for US involvement. There are no good guys involved, other than some number of civilians caught in the middle.


39 posted on 10/02/2022 7:41:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Timber Rattler

I always know it’s you who post a thread by how bombastic it is against Russia.

Full of hyperbole and hubris rather than facts.


40 posted on 10/02/2022 7:48:35 AM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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