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The four hospitalized men confirmed they were beaten, but not tortured.
People's Deputy Anna Skorokhod, who was at the scene in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka 2 November, said that the four hospitalized servicemen did indeed suffer beatings, but none of them sustained serious injuries or were subjected to torture. They told her this themselves during conversations with the deputy at the hospital.
Skorokhod said she saw bruises and hematomas on the servicemen's bodies, but reports of a spinal fracture, the creation of a stoma as a result of beatings, and deaths in the house were not confirmed. All four men are currently in the hospital, receiving medical care, and have already given testimony to law enforcement.
The deputy also said that three of the four denied claims that their unit's command extorted money from them, and only one said such a thing had occurred.
Alexander Pavlyuchenko told the deputy that he sustained a spinal injury during general military training, but said he was severely beaten at the deployment point.
“When I asked why, he told me that there had been an incident when he drank alcohol in the hospital and urinated in a ward on other servicemen. He apologized for that, but was expelled from the hospital and transferred to the deployment point in Borshchahivka, where he spent a short time and where he was beaten,” the deputy said.
Skorokhod noted that the serviceman's actions do not, of course, justify violence, but added that the man is okay, although he has some chronic illnesses that were ignored by the medical commission. She expressed hope that after examination he will be sent for a repeat medical commission to determine his degree of fitness.
The second serviceman, Ivan Yareshko, had been in Borshchahivka since 29 October. According to him, he was also beaten, although, Skorokhod claims, the information that he used drugs is contradicted by medical tests.
The third man, Oleksandr Perminov, was in the special service company, where he went immediately after mobilization, not ending up at the temporary training location. The man says he did not want to serve in Azov, but was caught and sent to the deployment point in Borshchahivka. There he was beaten for having gone to the special service company together with several other men.
Andriy Kulishov reported extortion of money within the unit; Skorokhod connects his story with the arrival of Valentina Moloda. According to the deputy, the man went to the special service company back in January of this year because, in his opinion, the medical commission did not take his health issues into account. 24 September he was caught and detained at the deployment point.
The stoma that various outlets wrote about is not related to his military service. Because of this the man sought medical help in September, where he received treatment.
The serviceman denied that he was held in a basement, but said that from the first day he was demanded to pay a fine for the special service company, which he was supposed to pay to two representatives of the unit. He also said he was beaten on the head, back, and face.
The man was periodically given a phone to contact relatives, but was not taken to the hospital and was not allowed to undergo a repeat medical commission, although having a stoma implies limited fitness or discharge from service.
“He had contact with his goddaughter, who provided the information to the woman who came directly to the scene. There is no contact with his goddaughter as of today. What he was doing there for 37 days and why he was held there at all, I have no answer to,” Skorokhod said.
The deputy added that all those held at the unit's deployment site were given access to toilets and showers and were fed twice a day, but noted that she passed the information she obtained to law enforcement so they could give it a legal assessment. Skorokhod also said that the National Guard is interested in seeing the responsible persons punished.
Contradictory events on Soniachna Street in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka on the outskirts of Kyiv took place 2 November in the afternoon. A woman named Valentina Moloda spread on social media that allegedly dozens of people were being held and tortured in a private house near Kyiv. In the video from the scene she was dressed as a medic and introduced herself as the owner of the clinic “Med-Prestige.” It later emerged that this clinic has not been operating since 2023 year, and the ambulance that arrived at the scene had been sold by its owner two years earlier.
Shortly after the publicity, National Guard commander Oleksandr Pivnenko said that servicemen who had previously left their units without authorization were in the house and announced an internal investigation. That evening clashes with unknown people occurred near the house, and the head of the Office of the President, Kyrylo Budanov, arrived on site. Only after that did people begin to disperse.
The next morning, military ombudswoman Olga Reshetylova reported that the house held not only servicemen from the special service company, but also other National Guard servicemen, including those who defended Mariupol and experienced captivity. The house itself was a temporary deployment point of an NGU unit.
On Tuesday law enforcement detained Valentina Moloda, and Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Office of the President, said that various correspondences and photos were found on her phone, including messages with certain Telegram channels that began spreading information about the house. The next day a court placed her under arrest for 60 days. The woman is suspected of obstructing the lawful activities of the Defense Forces and of disseminating information about the locations of military units.
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