Damascus-SANA
Many warnings issued by Russia over the past years about the dangers of the growth of the extremist racist neo-Nazi movement without any success. Torture of prisoners and their families.
The true face of the neo-Nazis began to unfold before the eyes of the world despite the attempts of the West and its media machine to cover up the ugliness of this face. During the course of the current Russian special military operation in Ukraine, photos and videos spread showing the crimes committed by the Ukrainian extremist nationalists and the so-called neo-Nazis as they torture prisoners of war In Ukraine, including Russian soldiers, in clear violation of international laws and norms.
One of the clips that spread on the Internet, and Russia Today website showed a number of them, shows the Ukrainian extremist nationalists mocking and brutally killing a Russian soldier with his hands tied behind his back. Another clip shows that these extremists shot the prisoners’ feet, cut off their fingers, and brutally beat the wounded.
Other videos have circulated in recent days confirming the atrocities of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, including the abuse of relatives of dead soldiers and sending pictures of mutilated bodies to their families.
Civilians were not immune from the crimes of the neo-Nazis, as the Russian Investigative Committee, according to the Russia Today website, is continuing its investigation into the murder and mutilation of a woman in Mariupol.
Russian military expert Viktor Litovkin pointed out that the murders of prisoners of war and civilians and the publication of these atrocities on the Internet will allow people around the world to learn what the Ukrainian extremists are finally doing, as these militant battalions will reveal to people the true face of Nazism.
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, directed the documentation of all the crimes of torture of prisoners of war practiced by the neo-Nazis in Ukraine after the spread of scenes on the Internet showing the torture of the Ukrainian Nazis in one of their bases in the city of Kharkov despite their injuries and without providing them with any medical assistance.
The Russian Defense Ministry had announced earlier that the bodies of civilians with signs of torture and painted with neo-Nazi symbols and the Nazi swastika were found in the cellars of liberated buildings in the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk People's Republic, while many photos showed Ukrainian nationalists, especially those belonging to the Ukrainian "Azov" battalion that They carry the ideology of neo-Naziism while raising the Nazi emblem alongside their emblem and the emblem of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
A video published by the Russian agency Sputnik a few days ago showed a member of the Ukrainian “Azov” battalion, Artem Benov, who had previously vowed to kill and mutilate the bodies of soldiers participating in the Russian operation in Ukraine, in his videos on social media, carrying the Nazi logo in a collar on his neck and a picture of Nazi symbols, which confirms the embodiment of these The extremist battalion of neo-Nazi ideology.
Basma Kanon