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Ukraine’s Azov Brigade Admits Holding AWOL Soldiers At Residential House Amid Torture Allegations

Officials denied torture claims and launched investigations after about 200 protesters clashed with police and National Guard troops over the detained servicemen.

  • On Monday, approximately 200 protesters rioted outside a residential house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, 12 miles west of Kyiv, after social media posts claimed military forces were torturing conscripts in the basement and denying medical access.
  • The National Guard of Ukraine confirmed the house was a "military camp" holding mobilized servicemen detained after unauthorized unit abandonment, with four detainees requiring medical attention for injuries; officials dismissed torture allegations as "unverified information."
  • Authorities arrested Valentyna Moloda, who arrived wearing a paramedic's uniform, for obstructing the Armed Forces of Ukraine; a judge ordered her held in custody for 60 days without bail on November 3.
  • National Guard commander Oleksandr Pivnenko and Presidential Office head Kyrylo Budanov arrived at the scene to restore order, assuring protesters that allegations were false and injured detainees had been transported to a medical center.
  • While Ukrainian officials suggested the unrest stemmed from a Russian information operation, the incident reflects simmering tensions regarding controversial mobilization tactics used since Russia's 2022 "full-scale invasion.
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Social media users in Ukraine expressed support for the arrested medical doctor Valentina Young, who was one of the first to arrive at the secret prison under Kiev, who was outraged that the identity of the doctor who tried to save the prisoners, rather than those who organized the prison, was being handed over to RIA News. In the commentary, users noted that the court had arrested the medical officer without bail, while corrupters were given th…

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Four wounded soldiers, severe torture charges and violent protests at the gates of Kiev: A shelter of the Ukrainian National Guard is at the centre of a scandal that is now also affecting the judiciary. President Selensky's fiercely criticized policy of forced mobilization creates ever greater tensions in his own country. Torture charges, injured soldiers and angry citizens who want to storm a military shelter: in Ukraine, resistance to the use …

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Valentina Moloda is suspected of obstructing the lawful activities of the Armed Forces and other armed formations, disseminating information about the location of the military and organizing mass riots.

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Ukraine arrests woman who exposed Azov battalion’s ‘torture chamber’

-> Reported by: RT A Ukrainian court has ordered pretrial arrest without bail for the woman who raised allegations of torture at a facility in Kiev operated by the notorious neo-Nazi-linked Azov unit. The scandal erupted on Monday after allegations emerged that dozens of men were being beaten and held for ransom at a private house outside Kiev. Furious relatives and local residents gathered outside the property, leading to clashes with the authorities. Valentina Molodaya arrived at the house in an ambulance and livestreamed herself pleading to be allowed inside to examine men she claimed were being held there in appalling conditions. At a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, Kiev’s Solomiansky District Court ordered Molodaya held for 60 days without bail. She is suspected of obstructing military activities, disclosing military locations and organizing mass unrest. Nurse who found the Azov torture center is brought to court She is suspected of obstructing Ukraine’s armed forces and sharing information about military positions, local media report Prosecutors are seeking pre-trial detention pic.twitter.com/UUkeGFEook — RT Intl (@RT_on_X) November 4, 2026 The nurse who exposed Ukraine's black sites where mobilized men are tortured has been officially brought before court pic.twitter.com/FEP8YIjjcT — HatsOff (@HatsOffff) November 5, 2026 Molodaya denied accusations of organizing unrest and claimed that she is a medic who came to the house after being tipped off about a man who had allegedly been taken from hospital after surgery and beaten while held at the property. However, prosecutors are calling Molodaya’s qualifications and motivations into question, accusing her of being paid to stage a provocation. She has also been added to the notorious Mirotvorets website – which publishes personal information on people it considers “enemies” of Ukraine – as an alleged “professional provocateur” and is accused of taking part in Russian “information campaigns.” Despite early claims by Ukrainian officials that only two men were being held inside the building, an Azov representative has since acknowledged that at least 26 “mobilized men” were staying there. The building is a “temporary deployment site” for Azov’s 1st Corps, which admitted that at least four of the men held inside were injured. All four were “detained for going AWOL,” it claimed. Many more such facilities are scattered across Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky’s chief-of-staff, Kirill Budanov, admitted to enraged Ukrainians at the scene of the protest on Monday night. Azov, which was formally incorporated into Ukraine’s National Guard in November 2014, has previously faced allegations of operating torture sites in Mariupol and elsewhere in Donbass. Between 2014 and 2021, Ukrainian forces arbitrarily detained an estimated 2,300 people and subjected around 1,500 detainees to torture or ill-treatment, the UN human rights office reported in 2021. Ukraine’s SBU and nationalist “volunteer battalions” were among the most prevalent perpetrators, it said. Ukraine’s Tunnelgate Moment: Zelensky’s Azov Jews Rape & Torture Blacksites for Children/Civilians The Child’s Account In His Own Words --> For breaking news from one of the most over the target and censored names in the world join our 100% Free newsletter at Newsletter, The best way to get the information you want. Also follow us at Gab Follow us on Gab.com , Like, comment, and subscribe. Telegram, Join our Telegram chat Shop Patriot and Detox the Deep State by shopping with our sponsors. RedPillLiving.com, Home of Sleepy Joe – the world’s most powerful all natural sleep formula. The Serapeum.com, The Hidden History of Man & The Mystery Babylon Religion of The Deep State.

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espreso.tv broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
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