Russian sapper Kostiantyn Yefremov from Vladikavkaz, who fought in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, and after returning from the war fled to Mexico, spoke about the horrific torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

This was reported by the newspaper "Nova gazeta. Europe".

Yefremov was present during the interrogation of three captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to him, two of them were beaten and threatened with a gun.

The third prisoner of war was particularly severely tortured.

This is a sniper, a guy born in 1993, originally from the Zaporizhzhia region, served under contract in the 36th brigade.

"I have never seen abuse like the third one, the Ukrainian sniper. They sprayed something in his face

. Yes, snipers were treated badly in any war at all times. But when he is drunk Colonel Shopaga, who can barely stand on his feet, asked the man the same moronic questions for a week and wanted new answers," the Russian military man recalls.

According to him, the drunken colonel demanded from the prisoner to tell "who was a Nazi in his platoon."

After the Ukrainian defender answered that he did not know any Nazis, he was hit on the head with the handle of a pistol and hit with a bat on his fingers.

The Russian colonel put a gun to his head and began to count to three until he named all the Nazis.

"Then shot next to the ear left and right to stun, and continued to ask. The prisoner shouts: "What?

I don't hear!" And Shopaga, let's continue to beat him with the handle of the pistol for this," the former occupier recalls.

A drunk colonel threatened to rape a Ukrainian with a mop

"Shopaga blindfolded him (he was always blindfolded during interrogations), pulled down his pants and drunkenly rehearsed: "Bring me a mop!

Do you have a girlfriend?

Now we will stick a mop in your vagina and send your girlfriend a video!

Or, for example: "

, make you a girl," says Kostiantyn Yefremov.

The sniper was eventually

in his right leg.

"The guards came to me at night and asked what to do with the wounded sniper. We bandaged him up and took him back to the garage. I went to the officers and persuaded them to send him to the hospital, otherwise he would not live until morning. They changed him into a Russian uniform and told him not to confess , that he was a prisoner of war. Everyone was already afraid that Shopaga would simply shoot him. In the hospital, they put a cast on him and then, out of fear of Shopaga, they returned him to the garage.

Civilians were also captured, children were tortured

According to Yefremov, the Russians held civilians, including minors, in captivity.

"There was an underage

. They were also suspected of passing on the coordinates. And he was quite a boy, poor, trembling all the time, very afraid. They also interrogated him. I can't say that they beat him half to death, but they did," he

.

Another man was taken prisoner during the blockade because the occupiers liked the iPhone.

The second man was accused of giving the coordinates of the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Although he only had a push-button phone.

Ukrainian traitors also fell under the "handout".

"Sometimes we got absolutely amazing idiots.

, a local villager of Bilmak. He came to our headquarters and said: "I have information that may be of interest to your commander." where to go... He came to the colonel,

him

... As a result, the grandfather spent the night in the garage with the prisoners, and in the morning they kicked him out from behind. He left with nothing, only a piece of shit," Yefremov says.

The further fate of the Ukrainian prisoners is unknown to him.

Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian SSR, Kyrylo Budanov, explained why the Russian Federation managed to capture so many Ukrainians.

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