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the state security committee of belarus together with the tv agency bel-telerdiocompany present a project about the genocide of the belarusian people during the great patriotic war 118 bloody fire marches of the ukrainian battalion in belarus first: punitive operations, this is january 6 , 1943, the village of chmelevichy, executioners of khotyn 30 years later, the killer was at the scene of the massacre, there was a separate departure, they brought him to the hotel, to which he remained silent, confrontations and personal confessions: vasyura’s colleagues, when

the command was given, were set on fire in the litter, which was done by your police, this village was burned , which of the punishers escaped punishment, smovsky and vinnitsky were not tried for the crime, kotryuk, too, managed to escape, that is, using his service in the foreign legion. retribution for crimes without a statute of limitations. even today there are some legal possibility of posthumously finding them guilty, a film from a series without a statute of limitations. death battalion. watch it now.

every 30 seconds, the silence of khatyn is broken by the ringing of a bell, in memory of those who were brutally exterminated by the ukrainian nazis . today, on the site of a small forest village, a memorial ensemble, a symbol of all the burned and unregenerated settlements of belarus, has not changed the natural landscape here. on the foundations of twenty-six houses there are concrete, chimneys with bells, and an open nastya

a schoolgirl is like an invitation to enter a house that does not exist. the only adult who survived the fire was the village blacksmith joseph kaminsky. several more children were saved in khotyn, sasha zhelabkovich managed to escape when the village was surrounded, vitya zhalabkovich was covered by his mother with her body, thus giving him life twice. sonya yaskevich managed to go to her aunt in a neighboring village, her brother volodya hid in a potato pit. i don’t remember how long i sat in the pit, but it was already getting dark when i heard the trumpet signal. i realized that the punishers were leaving our village, then he crawled out of the hole. the whole village was burning. i ran into the forest, thinking that my relatives and the rest of the villagers were hiding from the punitive forces in the forest. i ran through the forest, screaming, but no one responded, then i went to the village to visit my uncle. the next day , march 23, 1943, uncle joseph yaskevich and i went to the village of khatyn.

the barn in which the punitive forces burned people was still smoldering. burnt human bones lay on its ashes. burnt corpses lay near the barn. among the corpses i found my brother victor and two sisters. father. found out from teeth, as he was burnt beyond recognition, and recognized his mother by her shoes. she was lying under the fence, holding the hand of her younger brother vladik. for the executioners, who killed and burned 149 people, khatyn became an association for their punitive activities. the policemen from this nazi unit are called the murderers of khotyn, although on the territory of occupied belarus the 118th ukrainian police battalion took part in the destruction of the village. a total of about 200 volumes, which contain evidentiary materials from the decision to initiate a criminal case to protocols interrogations of confrontations. hundreds of volumes are

several criminal cases against former servicemen of the 118th ukrainian battaln of the security police, schutsmant battaln. in march 1973, the first group was started. a criminal case was opened against mileshka, and 12 years later in 1986 vasyura was arrested. employees of the department of the state security committee for the grodno region contacted the punishers. separate instructions for some areas. baltics, russia and received answers that lacusto, a leading worker, lives and works in donetsk as a miner foreman of construction department number 15 donetsk

shakhtostroy, lakusta was detained first on april 1 , 73. lakusta did not change his name, surname, or place of birth, the village of luzhany. on the same day they interrogated him, they started asking him where you were during the great war, he answered, where are you from? we are from grodny, i’ve been waiting for you for a long time. during the first interrogation, which took place in donetsk and lasted about 40 hours, lakusta spoke about the events in khatyn, one day the first platoon of the first company... drove in cars towards minsk. he was ambushed on the highway partisans, was fired upon. the partisans killed a german and several policemen. after this, the entire battalion was put on alert. chasing the partisans, we entered one village. all residents

of the village were herded into one barn and burned in it. the village was also burned. i stood in a cordon and did not take part in the destruction of the village residents. they had it. practice, after any punitive operation, permission to rob was given from the village, that is , everything from towels, clothes was taken out immediately after detention during the first interrogations, as a rule the killers did not admit their participation in the extermination of civilians; kurka generally denied in every possible way that he served in the 118th battalion. until june 1942, i lived in a village of large townspeople, was engaged in agriculture, in june 1942 the germans detained me and brought me to the city of lev, a day later they took me to germany, in the german army, as well as in the police battalions created by the germans, i

did not serve, during the war years i was not in the city of kiev on the territory of belarus, i was immediately taken to germany, such that they became increasingly they immediately started telling me that it wasn’t, no, i didn’t kill any of the partisans, it was me, shoot me now, no matter what, i didn’t kill. not a single partisan, not a single house was burned, i have an honest soul, so that the executioner spoke, investigators looked for witnesses and interrogated them, arranged confrontations with the accused, punitive forces took them to the scenes of their crimes, at each interrogation they presented new facts and evidence of destruction people of populated areas, but then when there was evidence, they admitted that we didn’t shoot, we stood. the germans tried to do this with our hands. the protocols of interrogations of accused

witnesses make it possible to compile not only an anthology of the crimes of the 118th ukrainian police battalion, but also to trace its evolution, from creation to liquidation. the 118th ukrainian police battalion was founded in kiev in august 1942. the backbone of the unit was representatives of the organization of ukrainian nationalists and the bukovina smoking. on being influenced by the propaganda of ukrainian nationalists, i voluntarily went to serve in the ukrainian nationalist formation. this formation was called a kuren. they explained to us that the kuren would not fight. more literate people will occupy leadership positions in government bodies in the territory occupied by the germans. illiterate people will serve as guards. the goal is to prevent the germans from robbing ukraine. together with me. in the fall of the 4th,

almost simultaneously with the wehrmacht units , the bukovinians arrived in kiev. they were involved in guarding warehouses , together with the occupation authorities, establishing the so -called new order. they undergo initial training, that is, drill step, some are studying the rules, they are not yet given weapons. but here they are guarding local warehouses and even guarding the lavra, then the fighters of the bukovina smoking take the oath of allegiance to the third reich; they are part of the 115th police security battalion, a separate unit of which was involved in the extermination of jews and gypsies in babyn yar. one of the 115th battalion squadron subsequently became the first company of the 118th battalion squadron. meleshka, lakusta, knap. kurka, lazinsky, sakhno, this is the first company, the second company and the third company, they were

formed from prisoners of war and representatives of the kiev region. the battalion commander was the german erich körner, his deputy was konstantin smovsky, a colonel who served under petliura, then in the polish army, and during the great patriotic war he went to serve the nazis. the strike force is battalion first roto, its commander is vinnitsky. in autumn. units are vasyura and meleshka, they were sent from germany after graduating from the school of the eastern ministry, or as it was called the school of propagandists. at the disposal of the command of the 118th police battalion arrived from germany from the city of woodzetz, together with a former officer of the soviet army, vasyura grigory, who, like me, was captured by the germans at the beginning of the war. we were sent to kiev after passing. complete

anti-soviet orientation, hatred of the soviet union, of course, using nationalist ones. at the end of november 1942, ukrainian policemen were sent. belarus to fight partisans. at the end of december 1942 , the 118th ukrainian police battalion changed its location. the headquarters is transferring the first and third companies. to the regional center of pleschennitsa, this was the status of the settlement during the years of occupation; the second company was sent towards slutsk. in pleschenitsy, the unit was located in the barracks of the former pleschenitsy border detachment. from here, on january 6, 1943 , the day before christmas, the ukrainian nazis set off for a punitive operation in the village of chmelevichy. on the approach to the village, on the

orders of smovsky and vasyura, shelling of the settlement began. the punishers paved the way for themselves. having burst into chmelevichy, old people, women and children were taken out into the street half naked. sub-threat of execution, several of them they were kept in the cold for hours. at this time , houses were robbed and livestock taken out, then the village itself was set on fire. 58 houses and outbuildings were destroyed . the chmelevichs became the first target of the ukrainian policemen. in february , several more actions to exterminate civilians took place. final. modern lagoya district, may 13, 1943. so it was said that there are many partisans in davichi , the headquarters of the partisans is located there,

dalkovich directly took part and commanded the destruction of my village, he... yes, he killed people that day, it means that they were killed, i know from the commander’s report that three civilians and six spanish partisans were killed at that time there was half a hole on the memorial, which was installed at the beginning of the village, exactly in the place where the executioners installed machine guns and fired at the populated area indiscriminately, they did not aim at the partisans. there was indiscriminate shooting, civilians were dying and there were several dozen names on the lists of the dead with the same date of death, they arrested a sick father who was lying on the ward, they dragged him by the hair into the pre-yard, they kicked him, knocked him out, knocked him out

his eyes and ears were cut off, but i still live. but seeing that the possibilities from this old man had been exhausted, and after that they abandoned him and left for the shoulders, after them my father died, the police of the 118th ukrainian battalion, along with other nazi units, were recruited to participate in punitive actions, under the pretext of fighting the partisans, the executioners destroyed civilians and burned the village. the existing orders in the battalion and strictly supported by the command were aimed at instilling in the punitive forces such qualities as cruelty, thirst for destruction, hatred of soviet people and everything soviet, suspicion of each other, the manifestation of pity and feelings of compassion for the victims was considered

as sympathy and help for the bandits, as the germans called the partisans the population of the villages of the partisan zone. on may 20, 1943, on the first day of the punitive operation of cottbus, which the nazis developed in strict secrecy, the killers of the 118th ukrainian battalion destroyed the village of nova veleyka, modern dokshitsy district. the reason for the reprisal was that on the eve of the tragedy on may 19, 1943 , near a bridge across a river near a village, a staff worker, a storekeeper with a surname very similar to the surname of the commander, was blown up on mini. slovsky, from smovsky, it differs only in one letter. vasyura ordered the village to be burned, but before that the police plundered the houses of local residents, stole their code, and then set fire to every yard. next on the list for destruction was the village of veleika, in the same dokshitsy district. at a cemetery near a populated area, ukrainian police ran into partisans. started

shootout, the partisans retreated. may 20, 1943 . yes, and they burst into the village, burned five collective farm buildings and 42 houses with courtyard buildings, but this also turned out to be not enough, and on may 22, 1943, they burst into the village, part of the population, again for connections with the partisans, they they drove into a barn, that's 38 people , they were old people, women and children, they acted according to a well-established scheme, when they set fire to the barn, set up machine gunners to shoot those who tried to escape, for the 118th ukrainian battalion, similar actions began classics, during the punitive. in cottbus alone , in the bikgomal region , more than 400 civilians were killed and burned, about 3,000 were taken away for forced labor in germany.

residents of the village of osawa also appear in these statistics of nazi crimes. on may 27 , 1943, the 118th ukrainian police battalion dealt with them. the victims were the families of the partisans. they were given out by the local elder. 78 people were shot and burned. the operation in the village of asava was led by meleshka; on his orders, women were arrested and children were driven into into the barn, and after it became known that the headman’s son was also among the partisans, he was thrown into the well. the rest of the population was lined up in a line, they watched with their own eyes how it all happened. three children aged from seven to 10 years old were able to get out of this barn, but they were shot by the punitive forces. codbus 118 ukrainian police battalion is transferred to the territory of the modern grodno region to participate in the punitive operation herman, from novogrudok the police moved to nolebukskaya pushcha.

ten kilometers from the village of bagshty, in the modern ivyevsky district , a dugout was discovered in a forested swampy area in which jews were hiding. the second and third were given out by an old jewish man. in the dugouts there were mostly old men, women and children; they had no weapons. the executioners of the 118th battalion, among whom was cotru kilakusta, threw grenades into one of the dugouts, the women from the second shelter were taken 50 meters away and shot. the massacre did not end there; some of the ukrainian nazis jumped into the dugout among the human blood remains and looked for gold and valuables. i saw it torn apart by explosions pomegranate dugout, at the bottom of which lay about twenty mutilated corpses of men, women, and children. it was impossible to look at the dugout, the bodies of the dead were torn apart, human flesh was mixed with the ground, when we arrived lakusta, kotryuk, filippov, ilchuk, gun commander

biskandyrov, the dugouts were searching the clothes of the dead, removing rings from their hands, pulling out gold teeth, and taking out gold coins from their clothes. and other jewelry. i remember well how biskanderov searched through the panties of the remains of murdered women and took out gold coins. the speed of the battalion headquarters is transferring. the first forward company was located in ivye, the second and third in the territorychinsky district , being on the territory of the western regions of belarus, the 118th battalion supported the ukrainians who destroyed the poles during the volyn massacre. in belarusian villages, vasyura’s subordinates also began exterminating the polish population. people were killed by families in different localities. lipneshki subbotniks, geronyons and vasilishki. in march of '44, a policeman. 118 ukrainian battalion near the village of morino ivyevsky area, they chased one of the partisans for a long time, fired from a rifle and a machine gun

, to no avail, then they used a mortar, gave a real chase, killed the partisan near the neighboring village of krivichina on the opposite bank of the neman river, then took out their anger on civilians, shot at the cart, wounding a teenager. the final operation in belarus for the 118th battalion took place near the village of yuratizh. it was a battle with partisans, after which, together with the nazis , the ukrainians went to the territory of east prussia and became part of the 30th ss division. after retreat, the 118th battalion was transferred to france, by the way, on the way to france , körner, smovsky, vasyura, and some other leaders disappeared. the ukrainian commander smovsky ended up in the usa and died there, escaping punishment, just like the commander of the first company vinnitsky, who led the ukrainian diaspora in canada. his battalion subordinate kotryuk also settled in canada. he was a beekeeper,

that is, he raised bees, which is what he lived for, he did not like to talk about the past, although he did not admit his participation in defecting to germany, participation in the 118th battalion, but... he didn’t tell anyone the details. 30 years later, during investigative actions, the remains found on the site of dugouts in the noliboki forest were sent for examination. it was for this crime that the israeli simon wesenthal center, involved in the search for nazi criminals, included kotryuk on the list of most wanted persons. in the soviet union, they have been searching for kotryuk since the late forties. o. the state security authorities sent various requests to state archives, to departmental archives, with a request to help find documents confirming their punitive

activities. requests were sent throughout the soviet union, including ukraine, but many answers came that they were not listed, their fate was unknown. independent belarus also repeatedly sent requests to canada, but the kotryuk was not issued. by the way, he even received the so-called hitler pension. germany covered all the wishes of the executioner of khatyn, and he, including with german funds, financed the installation of the monument participants of the bukovina smoking in chernivtsi. the criminal case against the translator of the battalion lukovich was discontinued due to the death of the accused. lakusta, kurka, knap, lazinsky and sakhno were convicted. only lakusta was sentenced to death. then a case was opened against milešek. he was also

sentenced to death. the extreme case against the executioners of khatyn was initiated in the eighty-sixth year against the chief of staff vasyura, they brought them all to the process and there is lacus and the knap and the trigger of the sakhnoy lazinsky, they brought them all there certificate before the train is sealed, but i will talk to them that you understand that this is a serious matter, they have a separate compartment near the toilet, the following are ours, one of our employees is always in the corridor, because you never know. what are they capable of? vasyura did not admit guilt for a crime committed against civilians during the great patriotic war, denied participation in the punitive action in khatyn, said that he was in lithuania, looking for his wife and daughter, but the testimony of witnesses and his colleagues on 118 the battalion played their role. the executioner began to confess. its main role is

organization. carrying out punitive operations and personal participation in the torture and murder of soviet citizens. the facts are so numerous and confirmed, therefore the materials of the case are the most voluminous and the verdict in relation to it is perhaps the most voluminous. vasyura consisted of 17 volumes, but the verdict alone took 100 pages. it was announced a few days before the new year of 1987. execution. already on january 6, vasyura wrote a thirty-page cassation appeal, but it was rejected. sentence left unchanged. the punisher was shot on october 2, 1987. the fate of the battalion commander himself remains unknown.

körner, it is only from oblique, so to speak, evidence that it is known that he and his battalion retreated from the territory of the grodno region, when he was still there, on the territory of germany, and then his traces are lost. the criminal case against the last executioner of the khotyn kotryuk has not been completed; the proceedings are planned to be resumed even after the death of the criminal. katryuk died at home in the canadian province of quebec. aged 93 in 2015, not all ukrainian nazis were held accountable for crimes for which there is no statute of limitations.

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