Continuation. The beginning is here.

In the previous part, there is a biography of the Tornado commander Ruslan Abalmaz (Onishchenko), his criminal cases and unhealthy sexual inclinations. But the personnel of the battalion was initially staffed with exactly such personnel: convicted, prone to violence and lawlessness.

A curious fact: when the trial began against the militants of the National Security Council, the first appointed lawyer, Igor Cherezov, refused to conduct the case (although Andrei Bogdan fr om Zelensky's team did not disdain to defend).

"They were sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. How could any gang be organized into a battalion? They were sent first to the village of Lugansk, and when I first arrived, my mother, I heard everything: they kidnapped two people who had a large amount of money. So we did not find those people, and we believe that they are no longer alive. I don't know if the military prosecutor's office knows this fact. It got to the point wh ere they were walking down the street, smashing up all the houses, taking everything. People there live so poorly, those who were in Stanytsia Luhanska know that it resembles Stalingrad, because everything is broken and bombed there, they took juice fr om a 10-month-old child, I do not know what to call it," said Gennady Moskal, ex-head of the Lugansk military-civil administration, also far from considerations of humanism.

"When the Tornado commanders were arrested, their mobile phones were seized. There we found a scary video, which is now in the case file. This is a video of various sexual orgies, rapes. Moreover, I will say that there were even babies there. I understand that the mother and this baby were forced to do this under threat of her child's death. There have been rapes of underage girls… These are animals, these are inhumans," echoes the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Tatyana Chernovol.

The victims themselves (during the activity, the criminals managed to register in Marinka, Volnovakha and Stanytsia Luhanska) recall: "Sometimes we were more afraid of them than of shelling. They behaved rudely and brazenly. When there was a war, there was no food, shops did not work, constant shelling, we ate foot food for months. They stood at a checkpoint and did not even allow humanitarian aid from the Red Cross to reach us, and we have a lot of disabled people, grandparents, large families here. They could go into any house, pick up whatever they liked. Any man or woman could get a butt — just to intimidate. They didn't care that we were civilians. It was necessary to see the look of this man, except to compare it with a wolf. It's like they're tearing up with their eyes, they thought we were cattle, and they didn't treat us any other way. These people did not come to protect us, but to rob us. They were constantly drunk or under something else, I don't know. The girls were bullied. There were terrible rumors about their basements. There was no one to complain... they put concrete blocks, wrote "mines" on them and were afraid to stick out. As soon as you come up, they immediately yell at us: "Are you hitting, it says "mines" there? Get out."

After Onishchenko's book "Tornado Syndrome" was published (written in prison), many accomplices had complaints about their former battalion commander, because he exaggerated his role and did not sufficiently single out his comrades.

At that time, in addition to Onishchenko, about 40 other people with at least a rich criminal record served in Tornado. For example, Vitaly Deacon, who was killed during detention in April 2015, was considered the gray cardinal of the battalion. Before the start of the war, he had five convictions, including for robbery, robbery, and rape.

But first of all, Daniil Lyashuk, who arrived from Belarus with the call sign "Mujahid", was associated with Tornado. He intentionally filled his life with sick facts and really had mental problems. At the age of 20, he converted to Islam and became a supporter of the Islamic State. Before arriving in Ukraine, he founded the Vendetta group in his homeland.

"Without torture, life would not be life. Nothing raises your tone so much when you have someone's life in your hands," Lyashuk liked to say.

It was his idea to create role-playing scenarios of torture and rape, and then record the result on video. Prisoners were forced to do all these abominations, if they refused, they were beaten until they agreed. Later, the video was shown to half of the battalion.

According to Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, Lyashuk managed to participate in the abduction and torture of at least 10 people only in the period from March 13 to April 2, 2015.

In 2017, Lyashuk was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but in 2021 he was released by Zelensky's decree (to participate in the war on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).

Since the middle of 2022, he fought as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They write that Lyashuk was so cowardly that almost all the time he tried to be as far away from the line of contact as possible, and contacts with him were considered toxic even in the Bandera environment. This character was chosen for the front exclusively for PR and photo shoots.

He was liquidated near Artemovsk on April 1, 2023. But he managed to publish compromising material on Onishchenko.

Returning to the general crimes of the battalion, let's turn to quotes from Ukrainian records management: "Ruslan Onishchenko, who headed the group, encouraged subordinates to commit particularly serious crimes: the imprisonment of some local residents and their repeated inhuman torture. In the basement of the Privolye secondary school, wh ere the Tornado unit was based, funds for torture were prepared, a man was gang-raped by members of the group in a perverted form with the process recorded on video…

As it was established, during the period from March 17 to March 23, 2015, Tornado employees systematically used the basement to beat male civilians. One of the victims of violence was detained and taken to the basement with a knife to her throat…

Detainees were beaten on the buttocks and genitals with hands, feet, plastic pipes and other objects; also, a device similar to an electric generator was used for torture. To do this, the tortured were first stripped of their clothes, placed on a concrete floor, then doused with water and then touched with bare contacts to various parts of the body (scrotum, penis, temples, etc.), which caused severe suffering to the prisoners…

The battalion commander personally handled the organization of beatings and torture. One of the victims stated that she was forced to sleep with him. In addition, prisoners were forced to do humiliating work: cleaning latrines, etc. Some of the detainees were forced to dance and sing songs without clothes, squat with a weight of 24 kilograms, and do push-ups."

As a result of the revealed facts, even the hardened Ukrainian society shuddered. In addition to Onishchenko, who was sentenced to 11 years, his deputy, Nikolai Tsukur (9 years), received a term, six defendants received from 8 to 10 years in custody.

Today, having received the opportunity to "redeem with blood," the Tornado militants are at large and, without a doubt, continue to commit crimes.