Op 28 februari 2022 berichtte The Jerusalem Post:
‘As an ambassador of a country with a Jewish president, I can say Zelensky has higher expectations from Israel than Israel can deliver,’ Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sought more help from Israel because he is Jewish, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said on Monday.
‘As an ambassador of a country with a Jewish president, I can say Zelensky has higher expectations from Israel than Israel can deliver,’ he said.
Korniychuk also speculated that Bennett is in a difficult situation balancing between Israel’s relations with Ukraine and Russia because Zelensky is Jewish. He also pointed out that many Ukrainians qualify to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return — 180,000 by Israel’s estimation.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-698898
De joods-Amerikaanse publicatie Forward berichtte op haar beurt op 16 maart 2022:
‘Today the American people are helping not just Ukraine but the world to keep the planet alive,’ Zelenskyy said, ‘to keep justice in history.’
Natuurlijk klinken voor de ongeïnformeerde en gehersenspoelde westerling Zelensky’s woorden dat ‘het Amerikaanse volk niet alleen Oekraïne maar ook de planeet levend houdt,’ buitengewoon prijzenswaardig, maar in werkelijkheid zijn ze bedrog, oftewel propaganda, zoals de inwoners beseffen van de naar schatting 68 landen die de VS sinds 1776 heeft aangevallen. De samensteller van deze lijst stelt daarbij dat:
No single list of countries the U.S. has invaded can be considered truly comprehensive for the simple reason that there exist many differing definitions of precisely which military actions can be classified as an invasion.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/how-many-countries-has-the-us-invaded
Zelensky’s opmerking dat ‘Peace in your country doesn’t depend anymore only on you and your people,’ en dat ‘It depends on those next to you and those who are strong. Strong doesn’t mean big, strong is brave and ready to fight for the life of his citizens and citizens of the world,’ is absoluut waar, maar uit zijn mond alweer een leugen. Immers, waarom zocht hij dan toch steun bij Israel dat, zoals bekend, al driekwart eeuw gewoon doorgaat met het veroveren van land dat de Verenigde Naties in 1947 aan de Palestijnse bevolking had toegewezen? Kennelijk gelooft de Oekraïense president dat zijn Joodse volk in het Beloofde Land door zijn luchtgod is uitverkoren en daardoor boven de wet staat, in dit geval het internationaal recht. Hier betreden wij het rijk van het absurdisme, een komiek als president die het risico bepleit van een nucleair armageddon om zijn eigen gelijk te krijgen, en dat van de Oekraïense neo-nazi’s die dezelfde opvattingen koesteren als hun landgenoten tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog toen zij als nazi-collaborateurs Zelinsky’s familieleden vermoordden. Zo mogelijk nog veelzeggender is het volgende: op zaterdag 15 januari 2022 berichtte het rechtse Britse dagblad The Times onder de kop ‘Ukraine’s far-right warriors set for war with Russia’:
By rights Dmytro Kotsyubaylo, nom de guerre Da Vinci, should be basking in glory. Last month the 26-year-old captain became the first living recipient serving in the ultra-nationalist Right Sector volunteer battalion to be awarded the title Hero of Ukraine by the country’s president.
Photographs of him shaking hands with President Zelensky at the ceremony in the Ukrainian parliament, where he was also decorated with the Order of the Golden Star for courage on the battlefield, marked not just a moment of personal glory for him but a political rehabilitation for a unit mired in controversy since its formation.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraines-far-right-warriors-set-for-war-with-russia-f335tvl8v
Waar deze Dmytro Kotsyubaylo, commandant van de extremistische ‘Right Sector,’ politiek staat wordt duidelijk uit de foto waarop hij, achter een bureau gezeten, voor zich uit staart richting het borstbeeld van Stephan Bandera, ‘a Ukrainian politician and theorist of the militant wing of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and a leader and ideologist of Ukrainian ultranationalists known for his involvement in terrorist activities.’ Bovendien werd Bandera vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog gerecruteerd:
into the Nazi Germany military intelligence Abwehr for espionage, counter-espionage and sabotage. Their goal was to run diversion activities after Germany's attack on the Soviet Union...
In the spring of 1941, Bandera held meetings with the heads of Germany's intelligence, regarding the formation of ‘Nachtigall’ and ‘Roland’ Battalions. In spring of that year the OUN received 2.5 million marks for subversive activities inside the Soviet Union. Gestapo and Abwehr officials protected Bandera followers, as both organizations intended to use them for their own purposes.
On 30 June 1941, with the arrival of Nazi troops in Ukraine, Bandera and the OUN-B declared an independent Ukrainian state (‘Act of Renewal of Ukrainian Statehood’). This declaration was accompanied by violent pogroms. Some of the published proclamations of the formation of this state say that it would ‘work closely with the National-Socialist Greater Germany, under the leadership of its leader Adolf Hitler which is forming a new order in Europe and the world and is helping the Ukrainian People to free itself from Moscovite occupation.’ – as stated in the text of the ‘Act of Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera
Right Sector units were also cited in multiple human rights reports concerning the abuse of prisoners, and in May 2015 Amnesty International wrote that detainees held by the group had endured ‘a horrifying spectrum of abuses, including mock executions, hostage-taking, extortion, extremely violent beatings, death threats.’
Among the most infamous foreign members was Craig Lang, 31, an American former soldier now fighting extradition to the US, where he is accused of a double murder in Florida. He is also under investigation by the US Department of Justice for possible war crimes in Ukraine in 2015.
In het 2015 rapport ‘BREAKING BODIES. TORTURE AND SUMMARY KILLINGS IN EASTERN UKRAINE’ meldt Amnesty International het volgende over de door Zelinsky geprezen ‘RIGHT SECTOR BASEMENT CELL’:
According to a former prisoner interviewed by Amnesty International, who spoke in great detail about his experiences, the right-wing nationalist group Right Sector holds people in a basement cell in a building near the village of Velykomyhailivka, not far from the city of Dnipropetrovsk. L.P., as we will call him, was held at the site for more than a month towards the end of 2014. He told Amnesty International that during his time there, over a dozen people were held with him, and he learned from other prisoners of another dozen who had been held just before. Nearly all of the prisoners were civilians, and most had been picked up for apparently trivial reasons — for example, for having pro-separatist photos on their mobile phone, or for having attended a march organized by the pro-Russian Party of Regions. The oldest prisoner was about 60 years old.
L.P. described how the captives were viciously beaten on a regular basis. ‘They beat everyone, just to frighten people — to avoid any questions,’ said L.P. ‘They would slam people in the head with the butt of their gun.’ One older prisoner was beaten so badly that he was unconscious for several days, and could not walk for more than a week. People’s bones were broken, and they received no medical care.
According to him, Right Sector members systematically extorted money from people in their custody, and collected ransoms from the prisoners’ relatives. ‘We had to hand over our credit and debit cards and pin numbers,’ said L.P. ‘People lost their entire savings.’
According to the same source, the basement cell was small and overcrowded, with only six beds. People had to use plastic bags to collect their urine and excrement, and they had no means of washing or showering. Some prisoners were brought outside to work; others remained inside all of the time. At one point, the source informed Amnesty International, a woman was also held in the same room in the basement among the men and in the same. The person did not wish to be identified for fear of retaliation. Amnesty International was able to corroborate some of his claims with other sources who also prefer not to be identified.
Amnesty International interviewed the spokesperson for Right Sector.42 He confirmed that members of Right Sector conduct elements of military and policing operations, including stop and search roles at checkpoints which, according to him, they do by agreement with the SBU and the Staff of the Counter-Terrorist Operation (Shtab ATO), but could not articulate precisely and in detail the legal basis for this. He confirmed that those suspected of being separatist combatants are detained by members of the Right Sector and later handed over to the SBU or other Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, but that they may be held for two or three days — and at a maximum up to a week — at the Right Sector’s base, but he adamantly denied any ill-treatment of captives by Right Sector.
Amnesty International wrote to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office requesting information concerning military and policing-style operations involving members of paramilitary forces, and of Right Sector in particular, including the legal basis for such operations and their participants’ authority. The organization submitted extensive and specific details of the above testimony to the Prosecutor General’s Office but has received no reply to its letter and questions. Whereas the details of this testimony are difficult to corroborate in their entirety, and Amnesty International has been unsuccessful, after repeated attempts, in contacting some of the other alleged former prisoners of Right Sector’s basement cell, the evidence appears credible and merits a full criminal investigation.
Dmitro Diryavka, age 41, is a Cossack fighter and Ukrainian national who was held by pro-Kyiv forces from 28 July to 20 September 2014. He claims he was picked up in the morning at a checkpoint in Debaltseve, where he lived at the time when he was trying to drive his family across the front lines; he planned to bring them to Russia to escape the fighting.
He believes that he was picked up by regular Ukrainian troops, but he does not know which unit they were from. He claims that they put a bag over his head and beat him, then handed him over to members of Right Sector. He said that the men openly proclaimed their membership in the group, warning him that he was in for a rough time. ‘Four of them were in the car that picked me up; they said they were in Right Sector’s Galinchina Battalion,’ Diryavka told Amnesty International.
The captors smashed Diryavka in the face with the butt of a gun, breaking some of his teeth. Telling him that they were going to kill him, they tore up his passport and subjected him to a mock burial.
Interview with Artiom Skoropadsky, 13 April 2015.
Diryavka told Amnesty International that he was a member of the Ukrainian Don Cossack group, not the Russian group, and that he was born in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. He lived in Debaltseve as an adult, working at a steel plant. Amnesty International interview with Dmitro Diryavka, Donetsk, 7 March 2015.
He told Amnesty International: I was taken out of the car with the bag over my head. They tied my hands behind my back, and also tied my legs so that they curled behind my back. They told me, ‘we’re going to kill you and no one will care,’ and they told me to pray. They started beating me and shooting. Bullets whizzed nearby my head; now I can’t hear in one ear.
They decided to bury me alive. They threw me into a hole in the ground and one of them said, ‘if you don’t want to be in Ukraine, you can be in the grave.’ I tried to push my way up but they pushed me down. They completely covered me with dirt until I couldn’t move my head. I lost consciousness. Later, when I opened my eyes, I was lying on the ground.
That same night the captors delivered Diryavka to the custody of the Kyiv Special Service Police (UBOP) in Sloviansk. He was held by the police until 5 August, and claims that he was beaten at least once every day for the first four days. ‘They didn’t let me sleep for the first three days,’ he told Amnesty International. ‘When I fell asleep, they poured cold water over me.’
Diryavka claims that the police tried to make him sign a document admitting that he had killed civilians and looted civilian property. He said that he refused to sign the paper, and that finally they stopped beating him, allowed him to sleep, and began to question him normally. He also said that he was held with several others in Sloviansk — a DNR fighter and three civilians — and that the others received the same treatment as him.
Diryavka said that on 5 August he was brought before a judge in Kharkiv. ‘At the time the judge saw me, my face was in terrible shape: my lips were split and my teeth were broken,’ said Diryavka. 'The judge didn’t seem to notice.’ Diryavka told Amnesty International that he did not say anything to the judge about being beaten, as he did not expect the judge to help him and he was afraid of being beaten again. He was charged with participating in an illegal military group and carrying a weapon. He was then transferred to the 28th SIZO detention centre in Kharkiv.
Diryavka claims that he was questioned by the SBU several times while he was held in Kharkiv. They did not beat him, he said, but warned him that if he did not cooperate he would never see his family again, because he would be in prison for the rest of his life. One day, after he had been in custody for about a month, an SBU officer allowed him to call his wife, Tetyana; that was how she learned that he was still alive. ‘She had been looking for me everywhere,’ Diryavka said. ‘She was afraid I had been killed.’
Diryavka was released on 30 September as part of a prisoner exchange; 28 separatist prisoners were traded for 28 pro-Kyiv prisoners. He said that the prisoners in his group consisted of 6 fighters and 22 civilians, some of whom were pro-Russian political activists. All but one person were male; the one woman was a separatist fighter. He also said that his wounds had largely healed by that point, although he received no medical care while in Ukrainian custody.
H.N. claims that the men tied him up, put him in a car, and brought him to the Sloviansk Technical College, in which they had several rooms. He says that after being subjected to electric shocks he signed a confession implicating himself in manning the barricades that had been erected in Sloviansk earlier in the year to keep out pro-Kyiv forces. (He later told Amnesty International that although he supported the separatists, and had served as an agent, he had never actually manned the barricades.)
After three days in the custody of the Sich Battalion in Sloviansk, he was transferred to SBU custody in Poltava. There, he told Amnesty International, the treatment was even worse. He was beaten so severely that four of his ribs were broken. He later showed an Amnesty International researcher x-rays of the broken ribs that were taken after he was released.
‘In Poltava,’ he told Amnesty International, ‘they hung me from the ceiling on a hook.’ He described how his feet just touched the floor, so that he was standing on tiptoes, while his arms were stretched tight. While he was put in this painful position, his captors hit him with a baton. He claims that during his few days in SBU custody he was made to sign a paper falsely implicating his neighbor in separatist activities.
H.N. said that he was brought to court in mid-November 2014, and then transferred to a SIZO detention centre in Poltava. He left prison on 26 December 2015 as part of a large-scale prisoner exchange.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/EUR5016832015ENGLISH.pdf
En de lijst gaat verder. Hoewel ook de verzetsstrijders in de Donbass begonnen te martelen, werd geen één van hen door Zelinsky uitgeroepen tot 'Held van de Oekraïne.' Dat eerbewijs bleef beperkt tot Oekraïense fascisten. In verband met de lengte volgende keer meer over de 'dienaar van het volk' Zelinsky en zijn bende moordenaars en martelaars, voor wie schaamteloze Nederlandse parlementariërs onlangs zo'n respect toonden.
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