![]() Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian army as 'the most barbaric and inhuman in the world' in light of these accounts, and said Russia will be stained 'as a source of absolute evil for generations'. Survivors who witnessed the tragedy unfold in their communities before the Russians withdrew to focus their assault on the east of Ukraine told of how their countrymen and women had been treated with savagery by the invaders. Widespread reports of rape, torture and brutal violence carried out on civilians first began flooding out of Ukraine after authorities discovered the horrors committed in towns north of Kyiv such as Bucha, Irpin and Borodyanka. The unsettling conversation, initially published by the Ukraine's MoD on May 3, is one of several in which Russian soldiers have admitted to committing grave war crimes on Ukrainian soil. The Ukrainian MoD posted a link to Solovyov's profile on Russian social media platform VKontakte, but it has since been deleted Solovyov is said to be aged just 20 years old, having been born in 2002, while his mother is aged 50. Ukraine's MoD published a link to the pair's social media profiles along with the unedited audio of their disturbing call - the profiles have since been deleted. Tatiana meanwhile appears to offer her full support for her son's war crimes, at one stage of the conversation directing an expletive-laden tirade at Ukrainian civilians for resisting the Russian abuse before later joking about her son breaking a man's fingers 'so he can't point or pick his nose'. After more than 20, I stopped feeling anything.' He later added: 'I'm not even feeling remorse anymore. Solovyov also said he felt 'not a smidge of regret' for his harrowing crimes, alleging Ukrainian forces would do the same in his position and because some of the captives did not give into their torturers. We're the same.'Ī new grave for people killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, is seen at a cemetery in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine April 19, 2022 If I had ended up there I would also be enjoying it. Incredibly, Tatiana responded in kind: 'I always told you that, in principle, I'm holding myself back. When asked by his mother whether he enjoyed taking part in the torture, the soldier replied: ' I like it. Solovyov, whose unit is deployed near the eastern front in Kharkiv according to Ukraine's MoD, also explained how he and his colleagues in the FSB beat an old man to death for taking photos of Russian troop positions, and excitedly recounted conversations he shared with a prisoner whose legs he had broken to prevent him from running away. Some of the tactics included the '21 roses' - stripping the skin back from a man's fingers, toes and penis like the petals of a flower - and the 'barrel' method, when a line of barbed wire is inserted into a prisoner's anus via a tube before being slowly and painstakingly ripped back out. The call, intercepted and published by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defence, was shared by a soldier of Russia's 11th Army Corps - identified as Konstantin Solovyov - and his mother Tatiana Solovyova.Īfter a brief exchange of small talk and jokes about taking food from local villagers near Kharkiv, Solovyov quickly begins describing, in graphic detail, a variety of heinous torture methods used by members of Russia's security service (FSB). Disturbing audio has emerged of a phonecall between a Russian machine gunner and his mother who took great pleasure in laughing about the torture and murder of Ukrainian civilians.
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