In Bukovina, an unknown person threw a grenade at a police car: there are injured
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Mityaev approves of prisoner killings
35/ Mityaev sent Demurchiev a message approving of the killings: "The prisoners who took the point, they chopped them up with shovels. God willing, [if] they survive, they should definitely be nominated for an award."
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Convicts executed with shovels in Ukraine conflict
33/ "Well, I reported to you. Two zeks [convicts] entered the strongpoint, and three Ukrainians took up their position. They took them prisoner and hacked them to death with shovels, fucking animals, fuck. Look at this, fucking execution with entrenching shovels, fuck."
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Former Inmates as Assassins and Voice Message
32/ The killers appear to have been former convicts. Demurchiev sent the following voice message to his superior at the time, Lt Gen Oleg Mityaev, commander of the 20th Army (whose death was claimed by Ukraine in 2022, but was later disproved):
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Soldiers filmed hacking Ukrainian POWs to death with shovels, blowing up bodies.
30/ In December 2024, Demurchiev's soldiers were filmed on a (likely Russian) drone's thermal camera hacking three Ukrainian POWs to death with entrenching shovels and apparently blowing up the bodies afterwards.
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POW killed in captivity, Greek and Demurchiev discuss disposal
23/ Demurchiev told Greek in September 2023 that a POW had been killed in captivity: “There was another one. He didn't make it. Bastard." "Right. I'm personally in favour of disposal. Otherwise, we won't defeat them," Greek replied.
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Mouse Torture Video Sent to Demurchiev
17/ Another "mouse torture" video was sent to Demurchiev in March 2024 by Colonel Alexei Shvedov. The voiceover says: "Fuck him! Answer me, bitch, where's the rest of the group, who's in charge, where's Zelensky?"
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Demurchiev and officer discuss POWs as ‘gifts’
18/ Demurchiev frequently discussed Ukrainian POWs, whom he referred to as 'gifts', with an apparent military counterintelligence officer (possibly DVKR) with the callsign or nickname 'Greek'. They discussed killing and torturing POWs.
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General sends torture video, receives smiley face response
15/ In December 2023, Lieutenant General Mikhail Kosobokov, commander of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District, sent Demurchiev a video of a mouse being tortured in a mock interrogation. Demurchiev responded with a smiley face.
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Torture normalized in the Russian military
Torture also appears frequently in the correspondence sent to and by Demurchiev, which suggests how normalized it is in the Russian army.