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00:00:00and is it just for the chosen few?
00:00:03fractured images presented as fact. can you see through
00:00:07their illusions? going underground
00:00:10can?
00:00:21a warning, disturbing images ahead. anti-corruption agencies
00:00:25in ukraine expose deep and lucrative ties between
00:00:29criminal organized.
00:00:30of organizations and high ranking members
00:00:32of the country's security services. graphic footage of a
00:00:36savage attack by one such gang is also
00:00:44of of released.
00:00:45of
00:00:53as Ukrainian authorities seek to prosecute protesters who clashed
00:00:57with law enforcement after the discovery. of what locals called a
00:01:01torture house near Kieve, we recall testimony
00:01:05of from people in Dumbas who say they endured such facilities
00:01:09back in 2014. And
00:01:12France is on
00:01:13of high alert as a fresh wave of
00:01:15of public protests spread across the nation. Local
00:01:18authorities are struggling to regain control after
00:01:22in last month's
00:01:23chaos.
00:01:32in A very warm
00:01:32of welcome to you. This is Arty International with the latest headlines. It's good to have you
00:01:36with us. Well, our
00:01:38of top story this hour, western back to anti-corruption agencies
00:01:42in Kiev have revealed direct links between number of
00:01:45Ukrainian security service
00:01:47of officials and criminal groups. The officials are said to have
00:01:51actively ignored kidnappings, large-scale fraud schemes
00:01:54and violent beatings for payoff. Please be warned,
00:01:58some graphic imagery is. The Nabu and the
00:02:02Sapo have exposed a criminal organization whose members
00:02:06systematically provided ilicit benefits to
00:02:09of high-ranking law enforcement
00:02:11in
00:02:11of officials. In exchange, they were granted the freedom to operate fraudulent
00:02:15call centers, and
00:02:17of engage in other illegal business activities. Furthermore, the
00:02:21group
00:02:22a orchestrated planned attacks, kidnappings and acts of physical
00:02:25violence to further its criminal interests. The
00:02:29Ukrainian. anti-corruption bureau has exposed yet another criminal
00:02:32organization with activities reaching high up into the Ukrainian
00:02:36in government, this time, two high-level official SBU officials were
00:02:40fired, because as it turns out, this organization has some serious
00:02:44ties to law enforcement in the country. According to media reports, the
00:02:48gang involving 12 people uh is was involved in the drug
00:02:52trade, it was involved in managing scam call centers, and its
00:02:56leaders, code-named the Mexican and the criminal, we're also...
00:03:00working
00:03:00of with high-level officials in
00:03:01of the security services, the prosecutor's
00:03:05of of office and the police, a all of whom were bribed into keeping their mouths shut about what was actually going on, and
00:03:09some
00:03:11of of the audio tapes that were released even revealed that they were working with some high-level
00:03:15Ukrainian government ministers. These guys
00:03:18are out
00:03:19of their minds, for real, do they think they're going to be in charge forever?
00:03:23Tell them, are you kidding me? You're handed two million goddamn
00:03:27dollars, your job is to stand by that call. and keep everyone
00:03:31away, not to go around spinning fairy
00:03:33tales. think about how we
00:03:36can make sure that these various ministers like the minister of internal
00:03:39affairs or the minister of health stop throwing a wrench in our
00:03:43works. we're prepared to
00:03:45a offer k 5000 plus another 200 thousand for
00:03:49whoever helps him out, that's 700 thous to ensure he
00:03:52stops on our plans. as for comrade L, there's no need
00:03:56to address anything with him.
00:04:00of Brother, I'm sending someone over right now to talk to K. He's going to
00:04:04give him a clear directive. Don't go changing the chemical formulas for the
00:04:08weed or whatever it is we're dealing with. We need to make
00:04:12sure that the samples submitted to the lab don't get scrutinized in a way
00:04:16that forces us to keep
00:04:18of changing the formulas because they keep adding them to the list of banned
00:04:21substances right? As if bribing government officials, the drug
00:04:25trade, running scam centers, as if all that wasn't bad enough. I mean
00:04:29this... organization was also exposed uh kidnapping people off the
00:04:33streets and beating them. it was all caught on camera and it was released
00:04:37by the anti-corruption
00:04:38authorities.
00:04:44of
00:04:44of
00:04:45of
00:04:49of
00:04:51of
00:04:57no doubt some really gruesome videos there and... In addition to that, I mean
00:05:01audio tapes were also revealed that uh showed
00:05:04discussions between the gang leaders talking about
00:05:08indetail how they were torturing these people. Let's take a
00:05:11in of listen. The main thing. is that the piece of scum got properly
00:05:14broken, i'd hate for him to have gotten off too lightly.
00:05:18brother, i'm telling you he's absolutely wrecked, fucked up beyond belief. den
00:05:22worked him over with hammer, and did too, though we didn't film that part.
00:05:26his legs, you get
00:05:27what i mean, are basically just rags now. now, of course, it has to be mentioned
00:05:31that this happens not so long after it was discovered that there was
00:05:35another torture chamber uh outside of Keyev run by the
00:05:38neonazi Azov national guard battalion. mean, over two... hundred
00:05:42the locals in that area ended up storming the building when they had
00:05:46heard of this torture chamber uh on social media that was
00:05:50holding conscripts and uh some the videos and
00:05:54images that were released on social media after they had were able to get people out there
00:05:58were really uh sad and and gruesome really so Ukraine
00:06:02really seems to have serious problem if a it needs to torture
00:06:06its conscripts into uh having the sort of morale to fight on the
00:06:10battlefield and b if their high-level politicians are
00:06:14constantly being connected to these uh either
00:06:18corruption scandals or criminal organizations that are making money off
00:06:21of horrible situation and very much linked
00:06:25to what Dawn just laid out: Ukraine's largest ever criminal fraud
00:06:29investigation has come to an end after two years. The
00:06:33scandal has shaken Vladimir Zelensky a
00:06:35is circle and cost several senior officials their
00:06:38positions. You can dive deeper into what was uncovered and the huge
00:06:42sums. involved at
00:06:43RT.com. Ukrainian
00:06:47authorities have threatened criminal charges against over 100
00:06:50people who recently took part in protests outside what locals have called
00:06:54a torture house in the Kiev region. The security services
00:06:58claim participants disclosed the locations of Ukrainian troops
00:07:02and organized mass unrest. Those targeted could
00:07:06face lengthy prison sentences.
00:07:09This is a criminal proceeding under article 29. four regarding mass
00:07:13disturbances and investigated by the national police. approximately
00:07:17100 people were identified and established in this case. separate
00:07:21searches are currently being carried out among them. the matter their arrest and the filing
00:07:25of suspicion is being decided. the site appears to have
00:07:29been exposed by a medical worker who was filmed begging to be
00:07:33allowed into the site. she was later arrested and charged with
00:07:36obstructing Ukrainian armed forces activities and spreading
00:07:40information about the location.
00:08:12battles between citizens and law enforcement, relatives the
00:08:16detainees joined crowd attempting to enter the property where schools of
00:08:20men, some recently drafted other suspected deserters were said
00:08:24to be held in basement, severely beaten and denied medical
00:08:28help. reports as well emerged subsequently of alleged
00:08:32blackmail by guards, among those discovered inside was
00:08:35teenage boy, they grab me
00:08:39by the hair, you can't see it in the footage, but i have lumps on my
00:08:43head, they just beat me, i don't know, they used everything to hit me,
00:08:47shovels, feet, fists, everything, then they carried me up to
00:08:51the second floor, they laid me face down on the floor and started
00:08:54interrogating me, i don't know, they hit me so hard on the head that i
00:08:58couldn't hear or see anything, they just started the interrogation,
00:09:02then they grabbed me by the hair again and threw me against another
00:09:06wall, because didn't land on my stomach when they threw me, they
00:09:09started slamming my head against the floor, punishing me for not
00:09:13looking the right way, smashing my head right into the
00:09:16floor, my nose started bleeding, but everything is fine
00:09:19now, a small piece of one of my teeth chipped off, the front
00:09:23part. Steve Gills served as a trade
00:09:27advisor in the bush and Clinton US administrations, he told
00:09:31us the discovery of an apparent secret prison near Keyev unleashes a
00:09:35host of uncomfortable questions for Ukraine's
00:09:38backers. I believe that this first
00:09:41torture... placement torture chamber is just the first of
00:09:45more that we will discover and find, and I think the Ukrainian people are
00:09:49going to be demanding answers and accountability of those who've not
00:09:52only operated these facilities, covered them up, known
00:09:56them and done nothing about them, and I think frankly the news is
00:10:00tightening, no pun intended around President Zelinski and
00:10:04his regime and the atrocities they've committed not only against his own
00:10:08people, but against the folks in eastern Ukraine and
00:10:11targeting. billion targets in in Russia as well, serious
00:10:15war crimes that have not been focused upon by NATO or even
00:10:19by the US to this extent, so I think the revelation of
00:10:23these torture chambers. is going to lead to lot more accountability and
00:10:27that uh eventually uh the crimes that president
00:10:31Zelinski and those closest to him have committed will will come to
00:10:34light uh and punishment will be uh made it out. I
00:10:38think also that when you have this regime refusing to
00:10:42answer questions about not only funding but about these torture centers
00:10:46just sort of dismissing them and denying them uh means that there's probably
00:10:50more to the story and more cover-up uh that's going on.
00:10:54Uh there's an old political.
00:10:56and in the United States, the coverup is always worse than the
00:10:59crime, although I'm not sure it's possible for a cover up to be
00:11:03worse than the crimes we are increasingly learning about in
00:11:06Ukraine. the secret site on the outskirts the
00:11:09Ukrainian capital doesn't however appear to be unique with
00:11:13multiple similar facilities reportedly emerging across Donbas
00:11:17in 2014. artes roman konzar has the
00:11:20extended look back. the latest reports about
00:11:24secret prison near Kiev, where forcibly mobilized men
00:11:28and a 14-year-old teenager were being held and
00:11:31tortured, have revived questions about unlawful
00:11:35detention and abuse in Ukraine. Reports also said that
00:11:39a unit of Ukraine's national guard, the neonazi
00:11:42Azof formation accepted responsibility for organizing the
00:11:46facility.
00:12:08Zelenски's chief of staff and former military intelligence
00:12:12chief Kiril Budanov was also at the scene where he told
00:12:16protesters that there were many such facilities
00:12:19in the country. Чому є така будівля? Тому що таких будівель
00:12:23багато. From the first time Azov members were
00:12:27accused of unlawful detention and torture, and the
00:12:31battalion is not the only group, infamous for its
00:12:34neonazi ideology, other like-minded arm formations
00:12:38like Idar and tornado also have a proven
00:12:42track record of torturing and killing people. Their crimes
00:12:45span from 2014 when they were formed to take part in the
00:12:49so-called anti-terrorist operation against the civilians of Dunbas
00:12:53in Mary.
00:12:56former detainees interviewed by RT said that they had been
00:13:00held at the airport a place known as the
00:13:03library, witnesses described being questioned and
00:13:07beaten. on the 28th of august i was
00:13:10detained by the as of battalion in the city center. i was taken into
00:13:14custody, driven to location within the city limits for mock execution
00:13:18and subsequently brought here to the Mariopol airport. they brought me in through the
00:13:22store and into these cold storage units. i was... held in one them, i
00:13:26wasn't here for very long, as i understand it now, it was only about 24
00:13:30hours, never saw my tormentars, had a black bag over my head
00:13:34with tape wrapped around my eyes, they use that bag to suffocate
00:13:37me. on the 20th of
00:13:41august 2014, i was arrested at navatrska near
00:13:44volnava, they brought me here with sack over my head and in
00:13:48handcuffs, then left me sitting out in the sun until 6 in the
00:13:52evening, they would walk by, some spat on me, some kicked me with their
00:13:56boots and others stubbed out cigarettes on my chest. they
00:13:59did whatever they pleased. they kept asking questions, claiming they were
00:14:03from Ukraine, that they were liberators and all that. well, I explained
00:14:07to him exactly what kind of liberators they were. one hit me, my
00:14:11head struck the wall, blood spurted from my lips and that was
00:14:15it. over the last 12 years,
00:14:18RC has collected multiple witness accounts depicting the
00:14:22crimes of Ukraine's neonazi formation. in
00:14:252022, rt filmed a former battalion base
00:14:29in logansk region where in 2014 they held
00:14:33civilians who did not agree with the new kiev
00:14:36regime. UN has reported dozens of criminal
00:14:40investigations into their activities with charges including
00:14:43abduction, kidnapping, brutal behavior,
00:14:47sexual violence, and these people were Kiv's official
00:14:51representatives on the ground. The United Nations.
00:14:55Human rights office has also documented abuses by Ukrainian
00:14:59neonazi battalions, including Aydar and called for
00:15:02accountability. Arbitrary detention, torture and
00:15:06ill treatment is the only the tip the iceberg these
00:15:10battalions crimes following the illegal government coup and the
00:15:14ensuing aggression against
00:15:16civilians. Just
00:15:19remembering, it makes me shutter. I wouldn't wish this anyone. This is the
00:15:23room where they tortured and...
00:15:25beat us, they would sit on chairs, one would do the beating, another would ask
00:15:29questions, and guard would stand watch, they beat us
00:15:32hard, really hard, they struck wherever they could land a blow,
00:15:36they beat... everyone, we were covered in bruises, completely
00:15:40unrecognizable, they broke my arm and my little finger
00:15:44too, they shouted and made threats, we'll kill you, we'll find
00:15:48out where you live, but first they brought us in with sacks over our heads and
00:15:52shoved us into a room filled with fiberglass insulation, i was wearing
00:15:56nothing but shorts and slippers, they forced us to kneel on that
00:15:59fiberglass, and we stayed in that room for a couple of hours, they were
00:16:03brutal trying to identify anyone who sympathized with the Russians.
00:16:07one man wearing
00:16:08a military uniform and going by the name or call sign bear
00:16:12started threatening us with hammer. he kept tapping it against our
00:16:15heads. on the very last day they beat me up with metal
00:16:18rebar. separate case which was
00:16:22actually tried and produced convictions involved the
00:16:26so-called tornado police battalion. the cynical
00:16:30irony here is the fact that while the unit's designation
00:16:34was volunteer police battalion, it was act. actually
00:16:37led by career criminal named Ruslan Onishenko
00:16:41and the core the group was also consisting of
00:16:45ex-cons. now the unit was disbanded in 2015
00:16:48after accusations of abduction, torture and sexual
00:16:52violence. when they came to light and lishenko himself was
00:16:56sentenced to 11 years in prison for crimes, including
00:16:59kidnapping, torture and murder. former ukrainian MP
00:17:03Tatyana Chornaval also described their crimes which...
00:19:07they were doing something in the basements, they were walking around dressed like
00:19:11nazis, they were shooting at the cemetery, they had a shooting range
00:19:15there, people disappeared, we've dug up everything around here,
00:19:19no one knows where they have gone, one would expect a person
00:19:22convicted of such crimes to never see the light of
00:19:26day, that was not the case with the convicted
00:19:29tornado commander Ruslanko as he was
00:19:33reportedly released from jail in 2022,
00:19:36now the... horror stories of torture, rape and murder of
00:19:40civilians have gone largely unnoticed in the western media in the
00:19:44last 12 years or so, blinded by
00:19:47rusophobic narratives, fed by politicians dreaming of
00:19:51so-called strategic defeat of Russia, they always
00:19:55portray the modern Ukrainian neonazis as
00:19:58heroes. Meanwhile, it's largely due to their
00:20:02constant fear mongering of civilians that Zelensky is able to stay
00:20:06in power. "the latest protest near Kiev at
00:20:10one of Azov secret prisons is rare manifestation that
00:20:14Ukrainians have had enough, well that's until their free
00:20:18will is squashed by nazi boot once
00:20:21again. Ramon Cost, Dusk
00:20:25Republic. France is
00:20:28bracing, nationwide protests have again gripped France
00:20:32as public and private workers demand action on stagnant
00:20:36wages and rising.
00:20:37inflation
00:20:48the political unrest Today began with early morning wave of student
00:20:52protests, leading to tens standoffs as police push back
00:20:56demonstrators manning high school blockades. Momentum is
00:21:00shifting into a massive nationwide marge led by the
00:21:04country's largest trade unions angered by stagnant
00:21:08wages as inflation rises. Our correspondent is in the
00:21:11French Capital for us Yassen. Yasin, good to see you, said the Macron. Government,
00:21:15I imagine is still reeling from October's scenes and now the streets are filling
00:21:19up. with rallies again, how do things feel in Paris right
00:21:22now? great to see you too, Nikki, so
00:21:26what we're observing at this moment are of course different manifestations or
00:21:30demonstrations and gathering across the entire
00:21:33parisian city center. now across the country, there are
00:21:37expectations and estimates that suggest there will be hundreds of thousands of people
00:21:41that will take to the streets on Thursday. The gathering behind me was
00:21:45a bit tense earlier where police gathered and they essentially uh
00:21:48forced demonstrate. is away from a public square, not too far
00:21:52away, they were trying to make their way to bustill square, was
00:21:56earlier at republic square and there are gatherings there, which is the
00:21:59approved and permitted area of gathering, and this was hours ahead
00:22:03the announced start time the demonstrations, and again there will
00:22:07be similar gatherings like the one you observe just behind me across the
00:22:11entire capital and across the entire city, but that also means that
00:22:15police have been expecting all of this to happen, which means that they
00:22:19are in this
00:22:20the the also deployed on the streets uh a capacity of up to
00:22:2370,000 uh police uh military personnel as well
00:22:27as uh members the Sentinel tal task force which is an anti-terror
00:22:30unit and again the real the real reason as to why the police
00:22:34deployment is so massive is they want to avoid scenes that essentially
00:22:38resonate october 17th and if we remember what happened then there were mass
00:22:42protests it was violent and there was a great deal of luding let's take a look
00:22:46at what happened.
00:22:50The police system is necessarily reevaluated every new day of
00:22:54mobilization, and of course we are extremely vigilant, we are
00:22:58extremely vigilant because it is out the question to relive any
00:23:01way, even a little bit of what we went through on October
00:23:0417th. I am thinking in particular the merchants and many
00:23:08French people who were legitimately very shocked by what they saw or
00:23:12experienced. Now very briefly, I
00:23:15wanted to just take you around what I am observing at this moment, now the two
00:23:19stories to my. left and to my right behind me uh are either closed or
00:23:23they are planning to close as the announced time for the protests are
00:23:27essentially approaching, but what this also means is the October 17th protests
00:23:30were violent, there was looting and uh some hundreds of people were
00:23:34detained, now they were in the triple figures, but they were also
00:23:37fairly less and fairly low, because according to what the French president
00:23:41said uh the governments and the police were not prepared to take
00:23:45on so many people, which is why in the weeks that followed, although we didn't observe the
00:23:49same level of violence, what we observed was, well, more
00:23:53arrests, mass arrests and the mobilization the police and the security forces,
00:23:57which is why they are very well prepared and they want to avoid
00:24:01the scenes that we observed on October 17th. now let's take a look at the visuals of what
00:24:05happened some weeks
00:24:06ago.
00:24:31Now the gathering behind me does appear to be coming to
00:24:35c to an end, but that doesn't mean that this is the end of
00:24:39demonstrations. We can expect similar gatherings like these to pop up
00:24:42and die up quickly across the capital, and from our
00:24:46experience, the reason behind that is, well given the massive..."
00:24:50appointment
00:24:50the police, they
00:24:51want to ensure that they can spread their forces thin, that's not necessarily
00:24:54attempt to, well carry out the actions that we observed on October
00:24:5817th, but but it is tactic nonetheless, which is why with the
00:25:02hours that lead into the protest will visualize and manifest itself
00:25:05into something completely different as to whether or not we'll see similar scenes on October 17th
00:25:09is unclear, but what we do now is that these protests will be different, first and
00:25:13foremost it's a weekday, it's not a weekend where many people show up, but people
00:25:17in the workforce have also suggested that there will be will strike, which means they're not going to
00:25:21work, they're going to be on the streets. uh, the trade unions are teaming up
00:25:25with the student unions to ensure that their numbers come together, which
00:25:29means that they will grow exponentially. and another reason as to why these
00:25:32protests could very well become so large across the french
00:25:36capital, specifically speaking, it's also because the general outrage for
00:25:40policies the governments. but again, the protests aren't just limited to the
00:25:44streets on Wednesday when Macron and his governments
00:25:48uh well budget before the... 127 went to the national
00:25:51assembly, it was rejected with an
00:25:54outstanding, unanimous decision, perhaps something that we've
00:25:58never observed in, well not just the French assembly, but any assembly across.
00:26:02the globe, there were just two lawmakers that have thinged and
00:26:06every single other law maker, whether they're on the right or the left or
00:26:10whichever area they belong on the political spectrum voted
00:26:13against that bill, which is exactly why the people are taking
00:26:17to the streets, they oppose the government's energy policies,
00:26:20they also p their financial and fiscal policies and
00:26:24we're going to see essentially what that looks like out on the streets later today,
00:26:28yes really good to have you there for us, keeping an eye on things, thanks yes in that's
00:26:34is The back in Russia
00:26:38blame game force as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk points
00:26:42to Moscow saying it's fueling the political upheval in
00:26:46Europe. He claims Warsaur's latest constitutional crisis is being
00:26:50orchestrated by foreign intelligence
00:26:52services.
00:26:55Political destabilization in Poland as in other European
00:26:59countries always serves their interests and it has been. exploited and
00:27:03fueled, above all by Russian intelligence services. In this
00:27:07context, the strongly worded comments coming from Russian
00:27:10politicians, as well as pro Russian politicians in Europe,
00:27:14confirm precisely this scenario, and the attempt to undermine the
00:27:18Polish government, attacking it over the constitutional tribunal
00:27:21is plain to see. This comes after warsare
00:27:25erupted in chaos in late October, as a longstanding
00:27:29struggle between President Carol Narovski. and Prime Minister
00:27:33Tusk regarding judicial control the country boiled over.
00:27:37Mr. Tusk ordered police to blockade the constitutional
00:27:40court, while Narovsky was abroad and the tribunal branded it a
00:27:44coup, causing the president to return home immediately. The prime
00:27:48minister attempted to take control the court after the president refused
00:27:52to swear in judges nominated by the PM. He was
00:27:56quick to blame Moscow Bots for the country's unfolding constitutional
00:27:59crisis. The former deputy minister. of finance and leader
00:28:03of Poland's front party told us this crisis is purely political
00:28:07and only serves Washington's
00:28:09interests.
00:28:14Another stage, another phase of political anarchy is taking place in
00:28:18Poland. So what's the point? Why is the constitutional tribunal so
00:28:22important to Polish politicians? For simple reason, if a given government
00:28:26introduces constitutionally flawed law, their judges in the constitutional
00:28:29tribunal will ensure that almost everything will be. fine, that's
00:28:33what the fight is about from the perspective of Polish society. This is purely
00:28:37political conflict between politicians and has no relevance to Polish
00:28:41society. Polish society is gripped by the problems of high energy
00:28:45prices, threats of war, access to healthcare, and increasingly
00:28:48deteriorating living conditions in the Republic of Poland. This is another
00:28:52act of very serious turbulence for the Polish
00:28:54state.
00:29:00President Norori's election was guaranteed by the United States, a political
00:29:03party the United States. This is unfortunately fact, therefore
00:29:07the guarantor of President Neroki's security and exercise of power in the
00:29:11Republic of Poland is the policy the United States. He's
00:29:15confident because with a supporter like the United States he's also ready to engage
00:29:19in various confrontations within the European Union. The United
00:29:23States within the European Union treats the Republic of Poland as a Trogen
00:29:27horse. The United States is interested in full power within the Polish
00:29:31State.
00:30:02has to be blamed on Russia, the Russian Federation, and President Putin.
00:30:06Otherwise, if there weren't the threat of Russia and President Putin, Polish
00:30:09politicians would have nothing to say to the Polish people, because they'd have to
00:30:13answer for the state of healthcare, for the deterioration of living
00:30:16standards, for all those mistakes and for the fragmentation and plundering
00:30:20the Polish state. Today, it's a legend, today Russia is being used as
00:30:24a cover for everything. Russia is the problem. There's a joke going around that if
00:30:28husband beats his wife, that too was on Russia's orders.
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