Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing 'ISIS-Style' War Crimes

Groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes in the rebel-held territories of Eastern Ukraine, according to a report from Amnesty International, as evidence emerged in local media of the volunteer militias beheading their victims.

Armed volunteers who refer to themselves as the Aidar battalion “have been involved in widespread abuses, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible executions”, Amnesty said.

The organisation has also published a report detailing similar alleged atrocities committed by pro-Russian militants, highlighting the brutality of the conflict which has claimed over 3,000 lives.

Amnesty’s statement came before images of what appeared to be the severed heads of two civilians’ started circulating on social media today, identified by Russian news channel NTV as the heads of rebel hostages.

Shortly after, Kiev-based news network Pravilnoe TV reported that it had spoken with one of the mothers of the victims who confirmed her son was a rebel, captured during fighting in Donetsk.

She said she had received her son’s head in a wooden box in the post, blaming nationalist volunteers for her son’s death. Newsweek has not been able to verify the report independently.

There are over 30 pro-nationalist, volunteer battalions similar to Aidar, such as Ukraina, DND Metinvest and Kiev 1, all funded by private investors.

The Aidar battalion is publicly backed by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who also funds the Azov, Donbas, Dnepr 1, Dnepr 2 volunteer battalions, operating under orders from Kiev. Last spring Kolomoyskyi offered a bounty of $10,000 of his own money for each captured Russian “saboteur”.

A warrant for Kolomoyskyi’s arrest was issued in Russia in July for “organising the killing of civilians,” through his sponsorship of volunteer militants.

“According to the government these volunteers always operate under an overall command and control of one of their regular forces,” Denis Krivosheev of Amnesty International told Newsweek.

Amnesty’s report, however, indicates Kiev’s loose regulation on volunteer groups and its “members... act with virtually no oversight or control”.

Amnesty has asked for Kiev to clarify the legal status and affiliation of its volunteer battalions and fully integrate them into “clear chains of command”, making all of its servicemen aware of international law and implementing “effective investigations” into abuses of human rights.

Meanwhile Norwegian channel TV2 presented footage yesterday of the Azov battalion flying flags with the symbols of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi party - Patriot of Ukraine.

This is the first instance of government-backed volunteers displaying far-right tendencies. However, numerous powerful paramilitary groups are reportedly involved in the Ukrainian conflict such as Patriot of Ukraine, Right Sector and White Hammer.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced today that the majority of Russian troops had left the country, raising hopes of peace negotiations between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists.

http://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604

 

pro-Russian Separatists forming a new unit during a swearing in ceremony. God bless these heroes

[video=youtube;NRdIKlGJmU0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdIKlGJmU0[/video]

 

meanwhile at hijacker headquarters"

 

Kolomoisky's militia's which consist of neo Nazis and control southern Ukraine, are under the Ministry of Interior Averkov. There is an arrest warrant for him as well as Kolomoisky. Both are accused not only of being behind the bombing of civilians and using white phosphorous, but also of the burning alive and hacking of over one hundred protesters including a pregnant woman, old people and children in Odessa.

These two are also under suspicion for the shoot down of the airliner on territory which was had been leased by Kolomoisky's company for fracking, and was now in the hands of the Donbass fighters. According to the Spanish controller the jets that shot the plane were under the Ministry of the Interior Averkof. Kolomoisky's company Burisma Holdings was also doing some very heavy lobbying in Washington at the time in order to keep the blame on Putin for the shoot down.

What Russian troops? They were not Russians, they were Ukrainians who were trained in Russia, and they entered Ukraine unarmed. Boy the lies never stop do they.

http://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604

 

Nuvorussiya might be its old name, but it is now a new nation with its own army, and they have to be tough because they will be fighting seven thousand American Greystone mercenaries coming in from Hungary. Someone asked where are the young men, why are they all old. Well it seems the young men were being trained in Russia. They are the ones the OSCE guards saw entering in uniforms and then given arms at certain locations in Ukraine... and they are the ones who Poroshenko accused of being Russian soldiers.

There must be quite a few of these Russians from Ukraine, and not just from the Donbass area, because at the beginning of the fighting the men would desert as soon as they realized they were fighting civilians and not terrorists. This makes one wonder if these boys will be satisfied if only the Donbass is freed, and not their own area as well.

 

Like the North Vietnamese said when the USA would send another 100,000 soldiers, "the more there are, the easier it is to kill them." Or something like that.