Bullying about the military in the 211st Brigade of the Armed Forces: Syrsky and Umerov reacted, details
In particular, it is a bullying of the military, solicitation of bribes and more. The Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Defense and the Ombudsman office, were reacted to the Ukrainian Truth material. The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky sent a commission of the Military Service of Law Enforcement to verify the information published.
The Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets one with the first to respond to a scandal in the 211st PMBR. He appealed to the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Military Law Enforcement Service to check information about bullying from servicemen. "There should be no such shameful phenomenon! So I take the situation for personal control and report the results of the verification of this fact!", - he wrote on Telegram.
At the time of the audit E 211th PMBR, the commander of the military unit was removed from the performance of their duties. The course and results of the audit in the General Staff are promised to be informed in addition to the procedure established by the legislation of Ukraine. The command added that on the individual facts indicated by the journalists, in September this year, an official check was already conducted. According to its results, materials were collected.
They were transferred to the competent authorities where the corresponding criminal proceedings were initiated. The Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov called the situation in the 211st PMBR forces of support forces of the Armed Forces unacceptably in the third year of the war. "Denight in investigations, family contracts, levies, abuse of servicemen is unacceptable for 3 years of war," the minister said.
He stated that by his order, the Main Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense, which will check the facts published by journalists, began immediately. "We also find out why the investigation of these shameful things has long been investigating the law enforcement service. The society expects to explain why the situation has not been resolved earlier. My position as a minister is clear: all guilty should be punished," Umerov wrote on Facebook.
He noted that the service in the Armed Forces should be a honor, not the provision of someone's personal stakes. The head of the defense department announced the bill on the military Ombudsman, who will protect the rights of servicemen and guarantee transparency in every such case. Ukrainian Truth journalists have published facts about abuse in the 211st Ponton-bridge brigade of the Armed Forces, which Colonel Oleg Bazerezhnyuk commanded.
According to the soldiers, they were victims of physical violence, threats and demands on the part of the command. One of the servicemen said that he was tied to the wooden cross, and the commander of one of the platoons, Vladislav Pastukh, who was a godfather of the Combrig, regularly mocked the soldiers. According to the investigation, he demanded money for the impossibility of protocols, for example, for the use of alcohol in the service.
In addition, the team was equipped with a so -called "cage", where they kept the undressed soldiers, forcing them to pay for their dismissal. According to journalists, some fighters were sent to the Khmelnytsky region, where they were engaged in the construction of a private house for the crew commander instead of carrying out military tasks. The DBR did not open a case for bribery, beating and abuse, but instead opened a case about the absence of protocols for drinking.