Ukrainian brutality episode 2:
Roman Bedei was mobilized in the summer of 2025 despite being legally exempt because he was caring for his seriously ill mother.
Desperation and lack of care for human life kills "legality". What kind of "legality" exists there anyway, I wonder, with Zelensky as a de-facto dictator?
Anyway, after being shot and released from the hospital...
The regiment demanded that he immediately return to the front in eastern Ukraine, but he refused, unsuccessfully seeking rehabilitation and combat pay. Two weeks after leaving the hospital, he was detained by the Military Law Enforcement Service for unauthorized absence without leave and was prepared for transfer back east.
They sent him back to the same unit.
"When they told him we were being taken to the 225th, he dropped to his knees on the bus and started crying. He begged them to call the SBI and sentence him to 15 years in prison — anywhere but there. The others told him to be a man. He replied, 'Shut up. You have no idea what goes on there. They rape people with a stick.' I never saw anything like that myself, but it still made me worried."
I don't know whether I should laugh or be terrified.
They were first taken to a holding location in Kharkiv. Around 40 people were crammed into a basement designed for 20. There was no room to sit or lie down and no toilet. Everything had to be done in plastic bags.
Worse treatment than pet rats in a cage.
"There was even a female service member with us. Even prisons separate men and women," Roman says.
Ha! Zero risk of being sexually assaulted there. Zero!
According to soldiers from the unit, the base is surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by security posts with dogs. If someone escapes, "internal security" or "rapid response" teams on ATVs with dogs are sent to track them down.
Escape is not possible! And you can't call anyone:
At this base, Roman and several other AWOL detainees were forced to sign statements saying they were "unaware that bank cards, money, and phones were confiscated in the 225th." In reality, at the very least, phones are confiscated.
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They were then handcuffed again. Roman says that when he asked one of the escorts to be careful with his injured arm, the man deliberately pressed harder on the wound.
You learn quickly your suffering doesn't matter and you're supposed to endure everything.
The "pit" where Roman and another soldier were held was a filthy room with traces of human waste. They arrived in the evening, and the following day everyone being held there was severely beaten.
Yeah. Caged rats have it better.
"They were wearing combat boots. They kicked me while I was lying on the ground, pulled me up, I'd fall down, then they'd beat me again. My legs were so wrecked that I literally couldn't walk."
And right after this, you go to fight:
Afterward, Roman and two other men from his "pit" were taken to the front in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where the unit was deployed.
"My legs had been beaten so badly I couldn't step over the concertina wire. The guide, callsign Liutyi, was shouting from behind: 'Move! Keep moving! I've got orders to shoot anyone who doesn't keep going.'"
So you get beaten to the point of inability to move, and then get made to move anyway on the threat of getting shot. How is this different than concentration camps? Maybe it is even worse.
"If they hadn't beaten me like that, maybe I wouldn't have been wounded—I could've stepped where I needed to. And if those other men hadn't been beaten, maybe they'd still be alive. We weren't moving carefully because they were rushing us," he says.
They don't care if you die. Very simple, very obvious.
"The neighboring unit gave us food and water—whatever they had. They also had two Russian prisoners. The prisoners ate the same food we did. I even said, 'Guys, you're being treated better than my own side treated me.'"
See? Ukrainian soldiers easily make friends with the Russians. The division is totally fake. And this is similar to what happened during the world wars too. Yet people can't accept my interpretation of countries being nothing more than fake ways to divide people so that they can be made to kill each other.
The day before he was due to be discharged from the hospital, Roman learned that members of his unit would come to take him back. Fearing he would be brutally beaten again, he fled the hospital and has now been absent without leave for more than three months.
After the beatings, his wounds, and frostbite suffered at the front, his legs began to go numb and swell. He says that once he recovers, he is willing to return to military service—but not to the "pit," and not to the 225th Regiment.
Stockholm syndrome has no limits...
Here another guy is described:
"One of them told me, basically, 'He came to fight straight out of prison. You should be thanking us for getting him out of there. He got to see the outside world. As for the beating—that was preventive discipline so he wouldn't want to run away again.'"
Bohdan served in the Shkval Battalion. Before joining the military, he had been imprisoned for multiple theft convictions. He was released in 2024 after signing a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The prize for being let out of prison is dying in Zelensky's ditch. Lol.
In addition to the "pits" and beatings, according to witness testimony, there is another method of torture in the unit — the "tree of truth." Soldiers are tied to a tree, sometimes stripped, and beaten with plastic pipes or sticks until their skin cracks open (as we saw in the photo of Bohdan Lohvynenko’s buttocks).
One thing Ukraine is good at is coming up with unique torture methods.
At the end of April, according to our data, after the Belgorod operation ended, on the statement of a serviceman from one of the units attached to the assault regiment, the State Bureau of Investigation opened a criminal case under the article “Exceeding military authority or official powers by a military official,” with the wording “systematic commission against subordinates of actions exceeding their authority.” But it led nowhere: four months later, the case was closed.
The Ukrainian legal system doesn't care about the abuses. They attack their own, too, if they are too wounded to fight and hide instead:
The serviceman alleges that Agronom (then commander of the Shkval company) called the soldier who had just taken over the night shift directing the drone pilots from headquarters and ordered him to drop an explosive on Chuks.
"He called Santa and said, 'Without broadcasting it to the screen, send the drop. Drop it on Chuks.' And he did. Chuks was wounded even more severely.
All of this came out of an
Ukrainian blog, so cannot be called Russian disinformation. There is more but I'm tired.
