Three servicemen in Novocherkassk were convicted of torturing six subordinates…

Three servicemen in Novocherkassk were convicted of torturing six subordinates in order to extract a confession of drug use from them. As the Novocherkassk Garrison Military Court established, the crime was committed “out of falsely understood interests of the service.” On February 23, the convicts brutally beat one serviceman in a park at the intersection of Kharkov highway and S.V. street. Matsot, after which he was taken along with another “guilty” to the location of the 4th special forces group.

There they handcuffed a total of six soldiers to a sports bar. One was beaten for resisting, after which he agreed to be handcuffed. There the military were mocked until the morning of February 27. The victims were tortured with electric shock using a TA-57 telephone, beaten, and forced to eat a pack of cigarettes, washed down with one and a half liters of soapy water solution. The servicemen repeatedly vomited, after which they were forced to do squats and push-ups in the vomit. While performing the exercises, each of the victims continued to be beaten.

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All the “punishers” admitted their guilt and testified against each other. They also apologized to the victims and to the personnel of the military unit. The court sentenced Uulu Nurllan to 3 years 9 months, Vitaly Kovalev and Nikita Shchukin – 3 years 6 months each. All terms are conditional. All of them took part in combat operations and were decorated in the past.