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Major events in the Ukraine proxy war, 2026 (view source)
Revision as of 05:05, November 4, 2026
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==Ukraine torture chambers==
==Ukraine torture chambers==
On November 2, 2026 Ukrainian [[social media]] was set ablaze. Rumors emerged on [[Telegram]] channels of a ‘[[torture]] chamber’ in a residential building. There were apparently 40 soldiers detained in a town near [[Kyiv]], Petropavlovska Borshagovka. Rumors emerged of a dead man inside, and [[extortion]] of family members if they wanted to see their husbands. Videos emerged of a man inside the building complaining of heavy beatings, fever, and extreme stomach pain.
A private ambulance came to save the men inside. In what became a viral video, the medic of said ambulance pleaded on her knees with soldiers to allow her to save the men inside. Meanwhile, [[civilian]]s tried to break their way into the secret [[military]] facility to free the men.
The unflappable medic was allowed to enter the building. She stated that one man had a broken spine, one had a stoma bag (defecates through a surgical hole in the stomach due to health problems), another is deaf, and a fourth can’t speak or move. A video soon appeared of the four men taken to an ambulance.
Over the course of the day, things [[escalate]]d. It turned out that the unit guarding the detained soldiers was the infamous 1st [[Azov Battalion|Azov Corps]]. The ‘deradicalized’ super-patriots that heroically lost the [[Battle of Mariupol]] in 2022, and have since become probably the most heavily [[propagandize]]d military units in recent [[Western]] [[history]].
A crowd of civilians (100, per nationalist media, probably more) surrounded the building with the detained soldiers and tried to break into the ‘torture chamber’. Plenty of excited young people were present.
Some said they were relatives of the detained servicemen. Teens spat at the [[Azovite]]s. Eggs were thrown at the policemen at the scene.
Tear gas was used against the civilians. They chanted ‘shame’ and lit firecrackers, imitating the protest mannerisms of nationalists.
[[Law enforcement]] officials tried to cool the situation. Though the [[police]] had initially denied that anyone was being held in the location, now Azov showed the detained men to the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) and journalists. The detained men, naturally, denied all reports of torture and beatings, though one had visible black eyes. The elderly and unfit men were clearly mobilized civilians.
In the same video, one journalist states that there were traces of blood on the mattresses where the men were found. Medics said the blood was due to ‘excretions from a colostomy’, confirming the earlier reports of a man with a stoma bag.
A 14-year-old boy jumped on the roof of the building, loudly swearing at the soldiers in charge. The Azov soldiers defending their base hit him with a shovel, pushing him into the building. He was not heard from for several hours.
Luckily, the police and the Azovite servicemen weren’t fighting alone against the dangerous hordes of [[civilian]]s. Backup soon came. Dozens of Azovite nationalists appeared, yelling out patriotic slogans and attacking the civilian protestors. ‘Slav Ukraini' Glory to Ukraine - Death to the enemies!’
Some shots seem to have been fired, either by police, national guardsmen, protestors, or the hooded ‘patriots’. This was probably in response to protestors destroying a police van.
Protestors also destroyed a police car.
[[Zelensky]]’s [[chief of staff]] [[Kyrylo Budanov]] then strode in. He entered the building, where he found the imprisoned boy wrapped in a blanket. Budanov told his family on the phone, ‘Your son is sitting in front of me, wrapped in a blanket. He is fine in general apart from the fact that he looks like shit.’
The shell-shocked boy was led outside. His face has predictably gone viral, with nationalists and their liberal friends having now collectively decided this is a paid Russian crisis actor.
Other injured soldiers detained by Azov were also let go.
However, they were sent into an armored vehicle. Soon, civilian protestors attacked the vehicle, breaking its glass.
Head of the presidential administration [[Budanov]] then tried to pull the bus forward by hand. Civilians continued throwing rocks and rocking the bus.
There were rumors that the men inside the bus managed to escape as a result.
Fights continued, with civilians bloodied either by policemen or, more likely, the hooded thugs filling the area. The police seem to have largely stood on the sidelines. [[Budanov]], speaking as usual in [[Russian]], told the injured man to speak to the police.
Budanov then left, telling the protestors to go home because they had already ‘accomplished so much’. He presumably meant the fact that they freed the detained troops.
Subsequently, however, pro-Azov hooligans continued to beat protestors and [[journalist]]s at the scene.
Four of the soldiers in the dungeon were hospitalized, though the national guard stated today that they have returned to their units.
Head of the presidential administration Budanov spoke in Russian throughout the events, just like everyone else there. His official statements on the matter are interesting. First, he said that there are ‘many such buildings’ across Ukraine, indicating the normality of such practices. But he also said that the offenders in this case would be investigated. And today, November 3, he declared that the whole story was clearly a Russian psychological operation to break Ukrainian morale.
The long arm of the law has reached the insolent civilians. The private medic who helped make the story go viral was arrested, and the [[Security Services of Ukraine]] declared that it has identified 100 protestors involved in the events.
==Ukraine's 425th assault unit==
==Ukraine's 425th assault unit==