Voice of Ukraine

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“In the new kahovka it was the youngest of the prisoners, 18 years old. The Russians ripped off his toenails. I made him bandages for a very long time because after torture he received no medical care. The boy just sat in the camera for about four days until his fingers started to rot. Only then was I led to him.

A lot of people were with head injuries. I’ve often encountered a specific injury in the form of a strange round hole. Sometime after a 20th man with such a wound, I still couldn’t figure out what caused it, how can you beat like that? The military then told me that it was a wound from the silencer for the machine. The prisoners were beaten when they were escorted to the police station. If the Russians didn’t like something, they took out the muffler and just peeled the place where the carving was cut, on which the barrel of the machine itself is screwed. And from that place, the occupiers beat people on the head with all their strength. Usually, this was exactly at night.

But at the Nova Kakhovka police station, I went into such offices and saw there what I was afraid of. Very scary. I’ve seen knives, chainsaws, axes, machetes there. It was all in the blood. “I understood that I was never called upon to provide help to those who were tortured by this, probably the Russians immediately took them somewhere”.

This is a fragment from the memories of staying in the New Kakhovka of Yuri Armasha, a military physician from the Vinnytsia region, whose full-scale invasion of Russians into Ukraine caught in Oleshki. On April 3, 2022, he and two other soldiers were captured near the village of Chelburda when they were trying to break out of the occupation.

The invaders kept him for over a year. During this time, he managed to visit one of the most famous kativenh of Kherson region in the captured police department in New Kakhovka, in Sevastopol and the notorious colony No. 12 in the Rostov region, which is also called the concentration camp for Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian captives of Russians.

In captivity, Yuri Armash witnessed the brutal treatment of the occupiers against Ukrainians, torture, rape of an underage girl and many women. In New Kakhovka, he learned the stories of dozens and hundreds of people and was able to save the lives of many prisoners with what was at hand.

“When I was caught by the Russians and sent to the police, in one of the cameras I met Yura. He rescued everyone who was brought unconscious by the occupiers after “interrogations” and torture. He saved more than one life,”-so recalls his acquaintance with prisoner Yuri Armash Оксана Якубова Director of Novokakhovsky Lyceum No 2 from Kherson region, who in August 2022 Russian military illegally deprived.

In June 2023 the mother and sister of Yuri Armasha created a petition to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky requesting to grant him the honorary title of Hero of Ukraine. In less than two months, the petition has collected the necessary votes and is now waiting for the President’s response.

I contacted Yuri and asked him about the prisoner, about what he saw and heard in Russian katívnâh. For me, this was one of the hardest texts. Yuri himself, remembering to survive, sometimes could not hold back tears. But for me it’s also one of the most important documents, because talking to him is a detailed description of how the Russian-built system of terror works against civilians of Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region and other temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine.

“He saved more than one life.” How a military physician Yuri Armash was captured and helped Ukrainians tortured by Russian occupants in https://investigator.org.ua/ua/publication/259404/