"i remember these words, you are not human and you are not worthy to live, women constantly lived in cells on the second floor of the disciplinary detention center, on the first floor there was a room where men were taken for so-called interrogations, i tortured them several hours, these girls were constantly banging on the door with their hands, shouting: you know, stop..." stop, you just can't stand the way people shout, it was so hard for me at those moments, you know, i was constantly crying, i couldn't restrain yourself, not for 5 minutes, not for 10, but for hours, hours of one, the other, when at night you hear the sound of scotch opening, you realize that now everyone will cry, girls, they wrapped them with tape. and

they beat very hard, we did not sleep then, we could not sleep, under this scream, shrieking, under all this, we could not and all, three seriously wounded defenders of mariupol, who were among the first to be returned from captive, on oneself. i also felt the blows, i was also beaten during the interrogations, they wanted me to sign all kinds of statements against my command there, i said that i would not do it, they started they beat me with sticks, where i never signed anything, and there were always threats to my life, i saw the guys taking us away, they were brought from our boys' barrack for two or three days beaten, ribs were broken, well, in a very serious condition.

mariupol volunteers kostyantyn velychko and yevhen malyarchuk also witnessed the torture. this is one change, it's kyrylo and yura. this shift was the hardest, because people were brought to them who had either committed a crime in prison, or needed to get some information. we called it kortyk's replacement, because kirill is nobody he did not call him cyril. not everyone even knew. what was his name in general, why was he nicknamed the dagger, because in the first days he carried a machete on his thighs, of course he did not chop his hands, but he swung, he swung, even the colony management had problems with them, these two guys were the ones who worked with prisoners of war , they brought, they beat these people, they took someone who was from the barracks, took them away, and... someone was interrogated from the second

floor, from our camera you could see the corridor, because there was no second iron door, there were octopuses from the fittings a door with a manger, and there was no other door, of course, when a person was being lifted from the interrogation room, we could not look, there was a command for everyone to stand up, return to the wall, but sometimes i managed to look from the side, and here were these people who were being interrogated , they will crawl backwards. and yura and this kort, kyrylo, were walking behind. the team of matilda bogner, head of the un human rights monitoring mission in ukraine, interviewed hundreds of servicemen from both sides. more than 90% of ukrainian soldiers said that they were tortured or brutally treated behaved most of the torture took place during interrogations. this appears to be the most

organized form of bullying. some people were tortured immediately after being captured in polon. these were usually beatings, generally less organized forms of torture. during the interrogations, in some cases, people were tortured with electric shocks, they were also beaten, and sometimes threatened. they also used other forms of physical violence, using various objects. sometimes with the help of knives, sometimes they inflicted the circle of tyrants, sometimes they shot, a whole range of torture. un experts recorded the facts torture of ukrainian prisoners in olenivka. including the most brutal. i cannot go into detail about this case specifically. what can i say, some of those who were subjected to torture were tortured. by current

we were looking for any information that would help identify those involved in the torture in olenivka. one of our conversations. said that he managed to get some internal documents out of the prison. during the captivity, this person was involved in working with papers in the administrative building. we received these documents thanks to them later identified a number of employees of the colony. end of april 2022. ukrainian troops continued to defend mariupol at the azov steel metallurgical plant. the russian army besieged the plant. the plant itself

consists of a very large area, it can be said that it is a city within a city with a length of more than 20 km. there were determined. tasks for the defense of the city. serhii shevchuk moved to mariupol from the western region on the eve of the invasion. together with several thousand other soldiers, he held the defense at azovstal. russian troops bombed the plant daily tried to take his territory by storm. aerial bombs were used there, starting from a ton, and in my case it was three tons. we miraculously survived there, we had already run out of food, there was practically no water, and we simply drank technical water. the last weeks, one and a half, we did not believe that we would, well, leave alive, but we knew that we would still be remembered, we

would still be remembered, and we are worthily standing , defending, on patriotism, i wanted to win back to the last drop. the defense of mariupol was managed by the brigade commander of special purpose azov, denys prokopenko. he periodically contacted azovstal with short messages. the enemy broke into the territory of the plant, heavy bloody battles are taking place. i am proud of my soldiers, i thank the whole world for the colossal support of the mariupol garrison. the situation is extremely difficult, but despite everything, we continue to carry out the order to hold. defense may 16, 2022. on the 82nd day of the defense of mariupol, the higher military command of ukraine ordered servicemen to leave the azov steel. over 200 defenders of mariupol

were taken to olenivka as prisoners. most were soldiers of the azov brigade, a unit of the ukrainian army demonized by russian propaganda. with the help of fakes, manipulation. and staged videos since 2014, russian pro-government media created a neo-nazi image of the military, and later russia started a full-scale war under the pretext of fighting nazism. later it turned out that in our bus they were very interested in whether we had servicemen from azov. oh, there we had one military serviceman, they and him photographed, they looked at him as if he was some kind of person from heaven, but for them it was a calling, that was all. there, on the video broadcast , their parents were talking, well, it was wild to watch it. may 27, 2022. a delegation of representatives of the occupation

authorities and propagandists came to the prison to show the satisfactory conditions of detention of ukrainian prisoners of war. despite demonstrative visits by russian-controlled officials, conditions in the prison remained unchanged.

the toilet was horrible, although we got so used to them later that it was already like a thing for us normal, 20-30 people could stand there in rows, everything was flooded there, there were no... systems, nothing, respectively, they went according to what, what was, but a few days before the arrival of servicemen from azovstal, over olynivka changed the flag. from the russian-controlled occupation regime to the russian tricolor. almost all supervisors were replaced by russians on business trips. apart from a few people like kiryuschi. and there are a few more people. the rest were already russians. the russian guards were employees of the penal service. and changed every few weeks. kirill and yuriy's shift remained to work in olenivka. according to the testimonies of the military and

civilians we interviewed, they continued the abuse already on the orders of the russians. if they needed to get something, they sent these captives to dizo. they were no longer interrogated by the russians, but by the people of the dnr. we knew the names of these two people. we also knew that kirill has a tattoo on his shoulder with the image of a scorpion, and also - we had a stack of documents from olenivka. we were not interested in some of these papers. it was about lists of convicts for previous years or regulatory documents. however, in one of the drafts of the report, we drew attention to two names: shokurov kyrylo viktorovych and yurii oleksandrovych dmytrienko. we identified the first supervisor quickly. he used social networks with closed access to them under a fake name. but we tracked down some of his photos. this is kyrylo shakurov from occupied horlivka, donetsk region. before the occupation of the city in 2014, he

worked as a spectator in another ukrainian high-security colony. we also succeeded to establish other employees who worked for volenivtsi during the first months of the full-scale war. later, we will find out that some of them also allegedly took part in bullying the military. but we could not identify kyril shakurov's partner by name. yuriy began to doubt that this was the real name of the second supervisor. maryana mamonova remembers in detail the months she spent in captivity, her tummy, by the way, appeared in the sixth month, they started laughing at me, because you said you were pregnant, you can't see it belly, you thought that if, well, a week or two they would change you, well, as if you wanted to deceive someone. months passed, but pregnant maryana was not sent for exchange. in conditions of constant

malnutrition, other women gave her their food, because civilians were recruited to work on the prison grounds, where they could get additional food. apples were brought to me by girls who went to work, and they were given more food there, and they brought them to the cell and shared them. with me, there were days when we were brought breakfast at six in the morning, lunch at 5:00 in the evening, and dinner at night, in the cell there was only one topic about food, and who knows how to cook, maryana mamonova and tetyana eldiap lived in the same cell for some time, and then in neighboring ones, one night tetyana got injured on... i got injured because of , that one of the girls at night, when they got up to go to the toilet,

someone stepped on them, they all slept on the floor, but some were luckier, because there were such wooden pallets, you know, and we slept on the floor. tatyana still does not know if she will ever be able to walk fully, my leg is very swollen , but you walk, walk, and i am all six i have been walking only on my heel for months, i can't feel my toes, my leg constantly hurt and didn't heal, but tatyana was not treated, like other servicemen. volyn residents also received wounded soldiers captured by the russian army in mariupol. some of them had severe wounds. we had a separate bus with these wounded people, you all saw that they

all came out of it bandaged on crutches, that crutch is still beating with something, well, why are you touching it, these are wounded guys, you know, there should be a minimum of some respect for them. yurik mykertchan, a military medic, is one of the volunteers who agreed to be deployed by helicopter to mariupol surrounded by russians. together with his colleagues, he rescued the wounded in an improvised military hospital on the territory of one of the metallurgical plants, later in captivity without... special equipment and medicines, we had a boy who was also wounded in the shin, yes, and we, being there just on the concrete, our surgeons were able to visualize the vessel that was bleeding, yes, to tie it, why is it important, yes, this manipulation allowed to save the leg, you understand, that is, we, being on the concrete, still tried to provide

the highest quality medical care, why am i telling this, because this guy will be with us in a week... that is, we did our best to save it, and the russians i simply cut it off, because it is a demonstration of the quality of medical care. wounded servicemen were kept in the same conditions as the rest of the captured defenders of mariupol. they gave us the rest, but later i can't even remember how many, they're just wounded. rush to the beaton, that's how we are there doctors, we walk, and i see that, for example, this wounded man has a mattress, i see another guy with a blanket, i push them together and put another guy between them, we not only treated, despite everything, we still managed somehow take care of them, our presence there showed

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photographs of people we identified as olenivka workers. to confirm their identities, our team met with kostyantyn velychk and yevhen malyarchuk in germany. we asked them to identify the people in the photos. here is the first one, you remember it, that one... and here, too, probably familiar, this is a young kortik, probably not, well, here he is still very thin,

yes, thin, not very healthy, look how he is progressed, from here to here, the volunteers almost immediately recognized kirill shakurov, the same warden whom the former prisoners of olenivka accuse of systematically... mocking the military. konstantin and yevhen also identified another person in the photo who may be involved in the torture. here he took part in beatings, here he was still running. he was still so short in height, he was still bragging that i was so small, but my kick was so sharp. he wound the belt on his arm and stood with the belt. vasyl bakalinsky is 33 years old supervisor from olenivka. also local. later we sent his photo to another person who was in captivity. it was confirmed to us that he participated in the abuse of prisoners. the volunteers

also recognized the head of the prison serhiy yavsyukov. yes, yes, that's him. there it is, it's 100%. here he is, here he is. the head of the colony is probably the only person who will be remembered for the rest of his life. in addition... as a completely inadequate comrade, a man valued his garden on the territory of the colony much more than people, when an empty puppet from tapes to the territory of the deer park, when he arrived, the first thing he rushed to look at was whether his cabbage was whole, and the fact that it fell 10-15 m from the girls who were cultivated, no one cared at all. serhiy yavsyukov, former ukrainian police officer. who betrayed the oath and in 2014 switched to the side of the occupation regime. a few months after

our meeting in germany, the ukrainian prosecutor's office announced suspicions against the warden kyryl shakurov and the head of the colony serhiy yavsyukov. the head of this institution, who in fact ensured such conditions of detention. undoubtedly, all this happened with his knowledge, at his behest. we are convinced that this person could not have been unaware of what was happening on the territory of the so- called institution that he headed, and therefore he should of course be held accountable for everything that happened during that period. another person is an inspector who held the position of a so -called inspector in the colony, and who was noted for the greatest brutality towards our boys, but no one knew the last name of kirill shakurov's partner. our team continued the search. in the documents, olenivka only happened one yuri. yuriy oleksandrovich dmitrienko. we

were looking for a person with such a name among citizens of both ukraine and russia. but there were no coincidences. the only thing that the former olenivka prisoners remembered was that this person's last name was really associated with them. with the ukrainian name dmytro, and that he is also allegedly from horlivka, a ukrainian city that was occupied by russian-controlled forces in 2014. we assumed that the documents were drawn up by russians and could be mistaken. our team compiled a list of all possible variations of the surname, further with help russian databases and social networks began to identify people who would fit our criteria, there were several dozen of them. we found out that a man named yury dmytrenko is registered in horlivka, although with a different surname. he did not have social networks with his name, the pages of close

relatives were closed. but we still found a few old photos on his mother-in-law's page. three released prisoners confirmed that this is the same yuri from olenivka. we have identified another supervisor. i was a very good example for manipulations are you sitting in a cell? so they constantly tell you that no one needs you, no one will exchange you, ukraine is no longer ours, half was given to poland, half to somewhere else, that is, it is all of russia, no one will take you, they told me that what is the point you are in ukraine, and women were told, well , they don't take her away, so how do you want to be taken away, think about who needs you, nobody needs you. we civilians were kept there for more than

100 days, during that time i was sure every day that i would be released, not today or tomorrow, but have to let go it was a shock to me that i was held there for 100 days, but actually now, tracking the telegram channels that are related to olenivka, i still see people who sat with me in the cell. they were also civilians, and a little more than a year had passed. in the morning, these are definitely prayers, i’m there, i honestly don’t know much, two prayers, one of them wants ours, i sat down to eat, i thanked god that there was bread, thank you for that, i prayed, i was baptized, it’s not that some fear , and this faith was spiritual, this faith gave, i always had it covered, i always said, everything will be fine.

we identified more than 10 employees of olenivka, including the shift that was engaged in torture, but the question of who oversaw the work of the prison remained unanswered. june 8 , 2022. russian media reported on the strengthening of cooperation between the prison systems of the occupied part of donetsk region and the russian federation. and published a photo from donetsk, on it the head of the so-called service of execution of punishments yury doroshenko, the so-called law enforcement officers and a man in uniform, who is called the commander of the group of the federal service of execution punishments of russia in the donetsk people's republic. nameless sources in human rights circles told us that this person resembles a high-ranking official from moscow, kirill popov, but we needed more to... popov

was the acting head of the moscow federal penitentiary service. we were able to obtain a list of telephone connections and geolocations of the official. such information is often traded on the black market by russian law enforcement officers themselves. on the 14th. in may 2022, two days before the mariupol defenders left azovstal, kyryll popov left moscow to the russian city of rostov-nedono. on the same day, he had telephone conversations with the so-called minister of justice and the so-called head of the prison service of the occupied part of donetsk region. olenivka was officially subordinated to this illegal body. on the evening of may 16, the day the ukrainian military

left... from the off-station, kyryl popov arrived at the ukrainian border. on the border with the occupied region, the official's geolocation data was interrupted for more than a month. on june 17, 2022 , he appeared again at the border and from there went to moscow. it is very likely that kyryll popov was in the occupied territory for more than a month. during this period. recorded his contacts with representatives of the prison system of the occupation regime, the top management of the federal penitentiary service of the russian federation and the leadership of the prison special forces of the russian federation. we called kyryll popov to ask about his role in managing olenivka. for this, we used a russian phone number and communicated in russian to get at least some information from him.