Pictured: Beating by hammers. An ambulance doctor. The rescue of a 14-year-old-boy.

The corrupt government of Ukraine, led by Zelensky, has adopted an ancient practice: establishing sites for torture of its own citizens. This barbaric action ruins all norms of national and international law. It smashes all efforts by the United Nations and European Union aimed at ensuring that people have at least minimal human rights.

The facts reveal the harsh realities behind bold labels – such as NATO, the ‘right-wing’, and neo-Nazis, – as well as behind the undemocratic ‘democracy’ proclaimed by ruthless politicians.

On 5th November 2026, Ukrainian journalists and local residents discovered – to their horror – a gruesome torture house located in the city of Kyiv, complete with a torture chamber. At this grim site, a group of individuals –yet not identified by government of Ukraine – who run and serve as part of the nationalist Azov battalion were active. They brought men to this dungeon and tortured them to extort money.

Members of the Azov battalion, who operated this torture house, received a payment of $3000 for every person they captured and coerced into signing a voluntary service contract in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (VSU). All the captured men who are brought to such places earlier refuse to be sent to the frontline and fight against Russia. They have no intention of dying for nothing, nor – alongside with Zelensky – of carrying out the bloodthirsty pronouncements of a ‘coalition of the willing’. 

The group that set up a torture house with horrific conditions abused their victims in order to extort much larger sums of money from them. As part of their extortion scheme, they demanded at least $7,000 from each individual, promising that in exchange for this ransom the man would be released from the horrific place – on the condition that he voluntarily enlist in the army. A complete exemption from conscription cost more than $10,000.

According to ‘Ukrainska Pravda’ newspaper the protests began after the commander of an Azov unit overseeing the facility demanded $7,000 from one of the conscripts and attempted to extort that sum from him. The man who had been tortured asked for a phone to speak with his relatives – so that they could bring a ransom for him. During a phone conversation, he managed to ask for help and informed his relatives that he was being tortured. His relatives called a private emergency medical service, and an ambulance crew arrived at the scene. In the ambulance were a doctor, a nurse and a driver.

Realizing that the staff of the site were illegally refusing to let medical staff into the building to provide emergency medical care, the doctor recorded a short video and posted it on social media. Local residents, who had previously witnessed violent scenes begun to gather and protest in order to secure legal access for an ambulance crew to enter the home and provide medical assistance.

The Ukrainian government responded by endorsing the brutality: instead of obeying the law and provide access for a medical team, it decided to reinforce the police and dispatched additional gendarmerie unit. The local residents who had gathered were outraged: the illegal refusal to provide emergency medical care went far beyond the bounds of human decency.

Towards evening, as the workday drew to a close, more civilians arrived, and clashes broke out between the protesters and the police. Tear gas and rubber batons were used to disperse the protesters. After several people were brutally beaten by the police for demanding that the law be upheld, the protesters become even more embittered and organized themselves. They pushed the gendarmerie and police units on a side, damaged several police vehicles and a bus that had been brought in to detain the protesters, and begun dismantling the wall around the torture house – a structure build from heavy bricks. Later, the protesters broke through the wall and gained direct access to the site and its dungeons.

As a result, 22 men were rescued from the torture chambers. The head of the National Guards (gendarmerie unit) confirmed to journalists that 18 men walked out from the house. Two of them confirmed, right there on camera, that they had been subjected to torture for the purpose of extortion.

Among the people discovered in the torture house was one man who was completely blind. It remained unclear his executioners had blinded him, or if he had arrived already blind. At the same time, the unlawful detention of a disabled person – or his alleged conscription into military service – sounds utterly absurd.

In the same house, another man was found: his abdomen has been cut open – apparently with a knife – leaving his intestines exposed. This was done to him in order to intimidate other detainees – as punishment for refusing to sign a contract for voluntary enlistment in the army.

Another man found at the scene had a fresh back spine fracture. The ambulance team rushed him into hospital. Later when journalists attempted to visit him, they were told that the police had taken the man away to an unknown destination.

A 14-year-old boy was also found in a severely beaten state. He was covered in extensive bruising, his body bloodied, and had cuts on his fingers. The cuts were deliberately kept shallow – so that no stiches would be required – yet they were deep enough to frighten the boy: if he refused to sign contracting paperwork given to him, they would cut off his fingers. As he recounted on camera, he was beaten with a steel shovel and a fire extinguisher. The executioners poured liquid from a fire extinguisher to the boy’s throat. Later, the names of this boy, as well as his mother and father, were added to a neo-Nazis ‘hit list’ – a resource known ‘Myrotvorets’ – and the boy himself was coerced into recording a video in which he claims that his presence in that site was purely by chance. At the same time, the video captured him being rescued – completely naked – by people who broke through a wall and entered the crime scene.

On the same day Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Zelensky’s presidential administration, arrived at the torture house and started berate civilians. He was filmed at the moment he was questioning a 14-yeal-old boy who had been rescued. He stated that the Ukrainian army has a number of such private houses that are used as ‘accommodation’, though he did not specify the exact number. Ukrainian journalists have joined to compile a list of Azov locations within Ukraine where people are beaten, tortured, killed and subjected to cruel treatment.

As of today, the victims reported 20 torturing sites:

1. In city of Kiev, the underground shelter in the Central Conscription Center (DVRZ) located in the Darnitsa is equipped with Torture Chamber.

2. Forementioned Torture House located in the City of Kiev, vul. Sonechnaya.

3. City of Kiev, Solomensky TCK, vul Politechnichna.

4. Village Lubomira, Gaysinsky district of Vinnitsa rgion.

5. City of Mikolaiv, place ‘Dubky’ there were after torture death reported.

6. City of Rivne, torturing site on the territory of medical diagnostic center, located in the coroners building.

7. City of Rivne, torturing site in Petra Migily street.

8. City of Bila Cerkva, on Palichenko street, torure chambers located in the basement.

9. Private Torture House in the city of Cherkassy, on Khomenka street.

10. City of Vinnitsa, Dovjenka street.

11. City of Tulchin, Vinnitska Region.

12. City of Ivano-Frankivsk, old Movie theater quipped with basement, DK Knyanagin.

13. City of Beregovo, poscha Geroiv;

14. Kirovogradska Oblast, Smolino village.

15. Kirovogradska Oblast, Petrovo village.

16. Kirovogradska Oblast, Znamenka village.

17. City of Khust, torturing dungeons in the basement.

18. City of Dnipro, vul. Shmidta, Chechelivski TCK.

19. Ivano-Franikvka oblast, City Tismennitsa, vul. Lipova, extensive torture reported.

20. City of Vinnitsa, Village Bokboniki, former hospital reconstructed into torturing site.

The following day, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) released a video recording obtained from one of the locations where torture was carried out: it shows individuals beating a young man with hammers. The video was followed by an intercepted phone conversation in which one person told another that the man had been beaten so severely that his legs resembled a wet rag.

To this day, the Ukrainian government continues to identify and punish the protest participants. Members of an ambulance crew have been charged with crimes: the doctor and the nurse were arrested with no bell, while the driver was arrested with bell set about $350,000. The Ukrainian government is attempting to punish all those who inform the general public about the established practices of using tortures. Nevertheless, a number of video recording are posted on social media.

Many Ukrainian men are attempting to leave the country, but the border is closed and rigged with anti-personnel mines; in areas where it is not possible to lay mines, border guards kill men who try to escape. The Moldovan side intercepted Ukrainian border guards who were attempting to drown a man using an oar; the guards also explained that they had intended to run him over with their boat’s propeller, as the man was trying to escape by crossing the border and swimming across the river.

All of this goes to show that no legal means remain in operation in Ukraine – and these are precisely the realities that NATO member governments are presenting to their own people. No law can withstand the brutal force of hammers, knives and specialized state agencies. Any international treaties and pledges to uphold the rule of law that signed by Ukrainian government are, in essence, meaningless – they are simply worthless scrap of paper.