Translation:

Good day, friends! I am Mikhail Kononovich, one of the leaders of the Association of Political Prisoners of Ukraine. I want to comment on the situation in Borščahivka, with its Azov torture chambers. Yes, let’s call things by their names: these are torture chambers of the Zelensky regime.

I want to address the people of Ukraine: Didn’t you know that we have torture chambers in Ukraine? Throughout the entire territory of Ukraine? That people are herded together like animals and forced to do various things? Didn’t you know that torture chambers have existed in Ukraine since 2014? And didn’t you know – just like the European heads of state – that since 2022, torture chambers of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) have existed, since the start of the war? Political prisoners are tortured there.

Should I remind you of the gymnasium, which everyone was talking about, where people were held for six months? Once to the toilet, once a piece of bread, that was all. They were kept and mistreated there like animals. Didn’t you know anything about this? You knew about it.

I, Mikhail Kononovich, have also experienced the torture chambers of the SBU – not secret ones, but open ones, which everyone knows about. Employees of the SBU, along with thugs, wanted to rape my 13-year-old daughter. I stated this under oath in court, in front of the whole world! And what do you think, that the regime knows nothing about this? It knows.

And Volodymyr Novikov hanged himself in the Kyiv pre-trial detention center – don’t you know about that? And people in the torture cells cut their veins – don’t you know about that? And in the Kyiv pre-trial detention center, people are being robbed, people are having their dacha houses and apartments registered in other names? “Oh my God, is that true? It can’t be!” Let me do a livestream from the Kyiv pre-trial detention center, you would go crazy there! That would be a show… Yesterday’s show was still a kindergarten. Or should I do a livestream from the 86th Penal Colony for Political Prisoners in Vinnytsia, also known as Zelensky’s concentration camp? The head of the colony is Dmytro Petryk, a staunch Nazi. He lines up the staff, the officers, and the workers and says: “Don’t react to anything! Torture, kill, steal the money! I’ll take the money to Kyiv, we don’t care about anything, the main thing is the money.” The prisoners work 12 hours, winding barbed wire, earning 190 hryvnias. They are fed like animals with stinky gruel. When a prisoner encounters Dmytro Petryk, the head of the colony in Vinnytsia, he must approach him, remove his headgear, and – do you know what he has to say? – “Sir, please excuse me.” Damn it!

Didn’t you know that something like this is happening? I’ll tell you: everyone knew everything and applauded. And why? Because they are afraid! Because otherwise, they themselves end up in prison. As soon as you start saying something, telling the truth, you end up in the Kyiv pre-trial detention center. I have been through the torture chambers, I know all this very well. My comrade and I have passed all this information on to Europe… We provided information. But as long as the regime is useful, please excuse me, we will continue to suffer here, in this… in this pigsty. We will eat each other, beat each other, kill each other, overturn cars, and the Tsar will continue to sit on his throne. Everything is fine, let’s go.

Source -> https://t.me/free_kononovich/263

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  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    They used torture camps already before Russia stepped in to save the russophone ukrainian population in Donna. The nuzi regime in Ukraine have done this constantly for 10 years or longer. I have have several documentaries talking about these camps in my yt playlist ‘What really happened in Ukraine’.

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      Mikhail and his brother have been through a lot. Thankfully, they have a lot of support from numerous solidarity organizations from Europe. The source that I added is from a German one and they regularly post both brothers’ wellness checks. You probably have seen this type of agitprop somewhere like this one: