You cannot negotiate with depravity and evil
Advocacy; International communication specialist
“In Nova Kakhovka, he was the youngest prisoner, only 18 years old. The Russians tore off his toenails. I spent a long time dressing his wounds because he received no medical care after the torture. The young man sat in the cell for about four days until his toes started to rot. Only then was I brought to him.
Many people had head injuries. I often encountered a specific wound, a strange circular hole. After seeing about twenty people with such wounds, I still couldn’t figure out what caused them. What could leave such marks? Later, the military told me that these were wounds caused by a silencer for a rifle. The silencer was used to beat prisoners when they were being escorted to the police station.
But in the police station of Nova Kakhovka, I entered some rooms and saw things that terrified me. Truly terrified me. I saw saws, chainsaws, axes, machetes. Everything was covered in blood. I realized that I was never called to provide assistance to those who were tortured with these tools. The Russians probably took them somewhere immediately afterward.”
This is an excerpt from the memories of Yurii Armesh, a military medic from Vinnytsia region, who was caught in Oleshky On April 3, 2022, near the village of Chelburda, he and two other soldiers were captured while trying to escape occupation.
The occupiers held him for over a year. During this time, he endured captivity in one of Kherson region’s most infamous torture sites—the occupied police department in Nova Kakhovka—as well as in Sevastopol and the notorious Penal Colony No. 12 in Russia’s Rostov region, also known as a concentration camp for Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians.
In captivity, Yurii Armesh witnessed the brutal treatment of Ukrainians by the occupiers, including torture, the rape of an underage girls, and the abuse of many women. In Nova Kakhovka, he heard the stories of dozens, even hundreds, of people and saved many lives using whatever means he had at hand.
“When the Russians captured me and sent me to the police, I met Yura in one of the cells. He saved everyone the occupiers brought in unconscious after ‘interrogations’ and torture. He saved many lives,” recalls Oksana Yakubova, the principal of Nova Kakhovka Lyceum No. 2 in Kherson region, who was illegally detained by Russian forces in August 2022.
«I contacted Yurii and asked him about his captivity, what he saw and heard in Russian torture chambers. For me, this was one of the most difficult stories to write. Yurii himself, recalling what he endured, sometimes couldn’t hold back tears. But this is also one of the most important documents for me because his story is a detailed description of how the Russian system of terror operates against civilians in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, and other temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine.» – journalist
In the photo: Yurii Armesh after returning home from Russian captivity
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Comment from :
Monika Antanaityte
Current Russia is an abomination created by none other than the international community itself. This poor excuse for a country, the legal successor of the USSR was never made to pay reparations for the immense list of crimes against humanity committed by the Soviet regime. Russia’s know-how on inflicting suffering is massive, yet the international response is nothing but a bare minimum. Disgusting.
Milan Popovich
The ongoing negating of basic human rights seems to be at the core of the Russian military, and is clearly being encouraged by Putin and his puppets. I sincerely hope that this new year brings about peace for the Ukrainian people, and the continued alienation of Russia, and all that it stands for by the rest of the free world. These barbaric acts cannot be rescinded, but they must never be forgotten.
Ken W.
Lex Fridman, …… are you listening?
Negotiations with these degenerates? Pah!
The comment from Monika Antanaityte was excellent…..
I always wonder if people who side with the terrorist state of russia ever read these types of distressing stories about the sinister russian criminals doing their hideous torture on Ukrainian POWs, and even civilians. Do they change their minds? If not, do they have any conscience? Or are they just soulless creatures?
They either dismiss them as lies or say that it was deserved.
Sadly, we all say the same things.
Whether or not it occurs as frequently on both sides will never be known.
“They either dismiss them as lies or say that it was deserved.”
Can people with normal intelligence really dismiss all of this evidence as lies? And, if they do say, it was well deserved, wouldn’t that answer my question that they are soulless creatures?
I never say something is a lie when there’s proof. Never. And yes, the aggressors DO deserve bad things.
Well you are crediting the moskali with intelligence, when they clearly have none, however, the moskali brain washing works well with the ivan in the street, which is why they spend so much on propaganda!
They are definitely soulless creatures, void of moral worth in need of some form of re-education to enable integration into civilisation sometime in the future. If ever.
I don’t think any of us here deny proof when there is some, as there is some more often than not. If ever.
As for deserving bad things, I was going to say not perhaps deserve. However, they came to play the game, knowing the rules, none of them deserve to win, the way in which most have played and the way they wish or choose to play, deserve the fate which befalls them.
As for those who last but a few hours, they chose to come. They wanted to behave like animals, most enjoyed the prospect of criminal activities without consequence. They likewise deserve their fate.
No negoatiations will ever work. putler understands strength, not cowardice. Give putler an ultimatum, get out of Ukraine or your army will be removed by force.