Been in captivity "Aydar" volunteer of Russia told about the torture
Visited the imprisoned Ukrainian nationalist Aidar battalion and transferred to the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic during a prisoner exchange volunteer from Russia Evgeny Shatalov told reporters on transferred to detention torture.
1st two years the exchange of prisoners held in the Donbas on December 29. Kiev gave the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics 124, Donetsk and Luhansk, gave the government of Ukraine 76 people. During the exchange of Kiev gave the republics as well As among them Russian citizens, who arrived in the Donbass volunteers. Shatalov together with the Krasnodar Cossacks in 2014 joined the ranks of the militia of Donbass, And was captured in January 2017.
"Received a blow on the head, lost consciousness, woke up in the basement. Then as it turned out, I found myself in the basement that housed the battalion " Aydar ". From the outset it was proposed to say that they should be... Drowned in a basin of water, shot at his feet, beaten in the basement kicked in the kidneys, the ribs, left for a while and then Continued " - He told.
According to Shatalov, tortured his soldiers "Aydar" under the personal direction of then-battalion commander Maxim Marchenko, the interrogations were attended by the Employees of the security Service of Ukraine.
"It lasted all 7 days. And the psychological pressure was non-stop. The worst - understanding that you are in captivity, " said a volunteer.
He added that in the end, he repulsed the kidneys, no significant part of the teeth and poor health. According to Shatalov, the necessary medical assistance to him in captivity were not provided.
"After my delivery to Kramatorsk (from the basement "Aydar" ) I was taken to a detention center, where Workers I refused to accept I was beaten, I had frostbitten feet. In the city clinic doctors insisted to leave me to be hospitalized, but employees of the SBU agreed to give permission to leave me in the detention center, " said Shatalov.
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