“DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH AZOV!”
Pictured is Tetiana Kirieieva — the second woman arrested yesterday and thrown into pretrial detention for two months, with no possibility of bail, following the exposure of a secret Azov detention facility near Kyiv.
Her crime? Apparently, trying to rescue a human being from a torture chamber.
That someone was her acquaintance, Andrii Kuleshov, who had been forcibly mobilized into Azov on August 20. He escaped the very next day. He was caught and locked up under guard in a house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, outside Kyiv.
There, he was allegedly beaten — despite suffering from complications following surgery he had undergone before his mobilization.
Apparently, even serious medical problems were no reason to show mercy, let alone provide medical care.
“I contacted the military unit’s command and the Office of the Military Ombudsman,” his lawyer told the court.
Attorney Rustam Nuriyev presented the court with photographs of Kuleshov’s injuries. Following another alleged beating on October 29, he also filed a complaint with Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation.
According to the account, Kuleshov was beaten on his legs, back, and the back of his head — conveniently avoiding his face, where the evidence would have been harder to hide.
Desperate to get him out, Tetiana turned to Valentyna Moloda, who promised to help rescue Andrii.
And you know what happened next.
Valentyna ended up behind bars, too.
So let's get this straight.
Two women who tried to get a man out of an abusive detention facility are now sitting in jail without bail.
And the Azov personnel accused of beating newly mobilized men and soldiers who went AWOL?
Any arrests? Any accountability? Any public outrage?
Not a word about them, of course.
Instead, the entire propaganda machine has swung into action, shrieking its favorite sacred commandment:
“DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH AZOV!”
Apparently, exposing alleged torture is a greater scandal than the torture itself. And trying to help a victim is treated as a more urgent matter than investigating those accused of abusing him.
Welcome to post-Maidan Ukraine.
Slava Ukraini!