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  • Commander of Russia's Chechen Special Forces Killed in Ukraine

    07/03/2023 7:03:12 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 7/3/2023 | NICK MORDOWANEC
    A Russian commander who fought against Ukraine since the war's inception has been killed in action in the Donbas region. Yevgeny Pisarenko, commander of the Chechen armed formation known as Akhmat, was pronounced dead on Monday by two fellow soldiers. He went by the nickname "Big," which also translates to "The Great" in a Russian context. "Thanks to the parents who raised such a Hero...A BIG man with a BIG heart!" Akhmat unit commander Apta Alaudinov wrote on Telegram
  • Horrifying footage appears to show Russian captors castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war

    07/28/2022 3:53:41 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 178 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | 7/28/2022 | Michael Weiss and Niamh Cavanagh
    A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors. While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video, the footage, which was initially posted on a pro-Russian Telegram page before spreading rapidly on social media, showed what appears to be a Russian soldier or mercenary wearing a distinctive black fringed hat, mutilating a man who appears to be a captured Ukrainian soldier. he victim in the video wears Ukrainian-style camouflage fatigues and is shown gagged, his hands tied behind his back. He lies helpless on the...