'They Called Him The Specialist': Ukrainian Man Tells Of Kherson Torturer
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2022
- Serhiy Mak says he spent 25 days locked in the cellar of an office building in Kherson, southern Ukraine, where he was tortured by a Russian man nicknamed "The Specialist." Mak spoke to RFE/RL after Ukrainian forces liberated the city from Russian occupation.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russi...
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This man giving this interview is so strong and has such integrity! So much respect 🙏
Surviving torture without talking and giving away friends, comrades and family, that is real heroism. I believe I would break.
You suffer the same damage whether you do or don't.
Might as well say nothing at all
This is, what he says in front of camera now. Don't get me wrong - i'm against Russian agression and Putin, but this guy could lie 'a little bit' as well.
@@Headbangerr-en2cc I wouldn't call it lying, but he seems to be good at not telling the whole story ;)
@@blefyplayswowable - "You suffer the same damage whether you do or don't."
What makes you say so? If you cooperate right away, I'm pretty sure in most cases you get better treatment than if you don't cooperate at all. I raise my hat high to all those who know something but don't reveal it to the torturers. It's a terrible situation.
@@adoatero5129 Torture is usually totally useless unless the torturer already basically knows the answers he/she/it needs. Main thing in all interrogations - never ask a Q you don't have the A to. You need confirmation, not just blaha blaha. Under torture, you soon start telling the torturer what you think he/she/it wants to hear. And no one can verify it. So, Raluyen is right! You suffer the same damage...
One more report about war crime from Russia, must pay for that.
Would you like to payed in rubles, euros or dollars?
@@SeregaOrgan What?!
@@Vinterbukser what what? Are you retarded?
Stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦 I pray for your victory and freedom and God bless 🙌
Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
Oh, they already do. It struck me the other day that one reason Russian propaganda is so effective, is that it really seems designed for the people who never think they're wrong about anything. Once they ingest it; they never back off of it no matter how ludicrous it is.
Well, they have been doing that ever since the invasion of Ukraine. The more the Russians repeat their innocence, the more they hope that people outside the world will believe that what they say is true. But one day they will hopefully have to answer for their crimes and then either prison or the gallows awaits them!
@@H.J.U.49 In to the courts with them!
What a brave guy.... a credit to his beautiful country and people of Ukraine ❤🇺🇦💪
...because when Ukrainians show us who they are, Believe Them. And when Russians show us who they are, believe them, also.
Ridiculous
Good job Ukraine standing and fighting 🇺🇦
The most important indistinguishable sign of "good luck" in the Russian people,
is his sadistic cruelty (Maxim Gorky. 1868-1936. Russian writer and playwright) “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Putin's tyranny
An excellent and well researched reply.
So many contrasting figures in Russia, the perfect analogy for two sides of the same coin
@@bradmiley Russia can only be remembered as the owner of territories taken from other nations, from other peoples and which they will have to return on the day of reckoning.Friedrich Engels1820-1895.German philosopher
The cause of terror and violence cannot be explained much better!
And Russia are asking for a peace agreement with Ukraine!
So many people have suffered under this barbaric regime and need to be brought to justice, either through human courts or God.
How can a person so cruel? It sure gives the Russians a nasty reputation.
The Evil Empire endures.
Yeah and no proofs again 😂
Surely ukranians does not castrate russian captivites. Deluded frеаk
La tortura está en el menú del gobierno Ruso .
God Bless this survivor, and I pray those that didnt make it Rest In Peace now.
The inhuman scum or specialist must be help to account.
Slava Ukraine
So, that 'specialist' is awaiting a special treatment.
Glory to the Hero's of Ukraine, Glory to the Spirit of Ukraine. Slava Ukraine.
What makes you think they will win
R.I.P. ukraine 🇷🇺
@@matthewbrophy6555 russia is doomed even if they "win" with their 'highly professional, highly trained' mobilised boys. Their economy is down the toilet now that they have lost their oil exports. They don't have enough ships to get it to India and China and they won't have components to build them. They can't get ships abroad because the insurers are Western based and none of the owners want to get sanctioned. The oil wells will have to slow down production and that means turning them off. The oil will freeze in the pipes and turn to gel, pushing out water which will freeze and rupture the pipes. This will take decades to repair if ever.
All of the brightest guys have left the country in a brain drain. You've lost a generation of young men. Your tech industry can't get microchips, The country's GDP is shrinking so russia will soon be spending more than it's making, especially now that the oil cap has been introduced, which will accelerate this process.
The Oligarchs have had their foreign assets frozen. Science is going backwards. Russia can't suddenly discover a whole new income source to replace lost oil sales, so let's be honest here. Even if you 'win' (in a few years time after tens of thousands more dead russian sons) russia is in huge economic trouble that could well see the end of the russian federation for good. The russian govt know this, even if you are blissfully unaware and that's why they are so angry at the West.
If they were comfortably winning, as you seem to think, why the threats to the West? Why the mass mobilisation of civilians, including prisoners, HIV infected, disabled, and teen boys? Why are the bombing civilian targets? Why the threat to resort to chemical and nuclear weapons? Why claiming an annexation and then retreating and bombing the annexed territories? All of this is not 'Western propaganda'. They are facts that everyone has access to, including you. Does this still sound like a 'winning' army to you? No. It sounds like a desperate army run by a desperate govt that thought it could walk in and destroy a country but, suddenly, it's 9 months later and there are 95,000+ dead russians and no quick end in sight.
This, of course, is a longer response than YOU deserve with your 'low fruit' little comment, but others will read it and know what the situation truly is.
I'd like to think that at some point, 'The Specialist' got removed, possibly liquidated for being unable to break Ukrainians. But if he cops a lifetime sentence in front of the Hague, that'll work too.
The Russians sure are doing a bang-up job of ensuring that there will be brotherly love between them and Ukrainians after the war. Yesiree, top-notch work.
😪💔🙏
Get lost outsider
...🇿🇦🕊🇺🇦
Zelenskyy should give him and others like him Ukraine's highest civilian medal. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini from the USA.
Truly a difficult video to watch, but watch it we must. We have to know what the Russian Invaders have done to people, so once they have finally been defeated, the criminals can be tried for the disgusting things they've done.
Just like during the Soviet days, there's always a "Specialist", sadists that are proficient in their work and enjoy inflicting pain on innocent civilians. Russia went from a dictatorship, to an almost democracy, and back to a kleptocracy/dictatorship across thirty years - from 1989/91 to the present. One day, they'll have to answer for all this pain.
Thank you RFE/RL. This video has to be witnessed.
@@froimkatz8214 Outsider? You don't actually know where I'm from... 😀
@@froimkatz8214 Get lost loser.
@@bradmiley Go suck off your Neo-Nazi friends
@@froimkatz8214 I'm not Anglo-Saxon, and I find that rather insulting.
@@bradmiley You are a member of hate Russia crowd. Russia will always be your enemy as long as it exists. It's people like you that fermented this conflict and now rubbing their hands together watch death and destruction. You people are simply evil. Rot in Hell
In some NATO countries, special forces offer "training exercises" to regular soldiers going into harsh environment. Usually a week here and there, to prepare them in case of kidnapping. Two days are enough to break most people.
Of course it would seem like this man didn't lose any 'bit', but 5 whole days chained in a dark cellar while tortured... I'm genuinely surprised he can even talk about it.
Ukrainians face a lifetime of psychotherapy... and the psychotherapists as well !
One must expect that everyone who has been in the clutches of the Russians comes out of it with scars on their souls. Nothing they have done must be forgotten and nothing must be forgiven!
@@H.J.U.49 I once read a book, how to win friends and influence people, this is not the way. These crimes will never be forgotten. This guy was tough enough we are not all as tough as him, how many died? Very worrying.
There will be some many PTSD cases it boggles the mind.
I hope for these people daily. I believe that they will be victorious because of what I hear from Ukrainians like this man. They are not going to be tortured into submission. This man survived hell and he's a war hero who will continue to fight. I see Russian troops going home in body bags or not at all. Just heaps of them laying in the streets of Ukrainian towns and cities. This is all Putin's fault. There is no good reason for this war and he's the cause of it.
Put them, the front line 'Specialists' in a pit-cage with Starving wolves
The Russians learned these medieval tactics from the SS. I guess they're not into winning hearts and minds...
God be with the Ukrainian's through all this War.
Get lost outsider
@@froimkatz8214 What a great comeback you is sayin! You must be one o' dem der intellelekshuals wot I heard about. "Get lost ousider!! Oh boy oh boy...i can use this when ma neybor's dog Gumpy be barking through ma fence. "Get lost outsider!". Yes dat's wot Im gonna shout at Gumpy! You is a true hero oh boy oh boy oh boy! "Get lost outsider! oh boy oh boy!
Don't cheerlead a conflict provoked by U.S. and E.U. Stay the hell out. You are outsider.
@@leonidkurtich8177 Hail to Ukraine. You'll get burn. You.
His superpower? He's UKRAINIAN.
SLAVA UKRAINE ❤️🩹🙏😇😎 FROM WILMINGTON DELAWARE USA 🪖❤️💪🧬
Those psychos will never see the inside of a Hague courtroom, so justice if it arrives S/B swift and final... Slava Ukraini!
Wow this is so sad. He's a lucky KY one to get away. Who knows how many we're not as lucky.
And that guy was considered the friendliest man in his village back in Russia.
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Agree ruzzia parAsha 🤮🤮🤮
Cheka, GPU, NKVD, KGB,... The Russians have not changed.
Absolutely, the orcs and the orcs collaborators must be found and leave completely, ASAP! Every extra day is a huge detriment to the country.
There is something about the concept of torture that really makes me sick. Unlawfully holding someone as a prisoner during war - well, alright. But torture….
The way a military treats its prisoners of war speaks volumes about the state of mind in their country!🤬🤬🤬
I guess if you have a 'special military operation' then you need a specialist to help out.
Barbaric.
Are russians humans?!
Some of them, but FSB as KGB heir has his methods. Of course CIA have the same, just Abu Graif as example.
I doubt it generally , though Ive met a few good ones, usually as they were escaping russia!
@@sauron73 There were hundreds of cases in every liberated cities. And that was after 9 Months.
Don't ever dare to try false equivalency on this!
There are many Failed Human Beings all of the World, but a high percentage in RuZzia.
No.
Holy Hell! War crimes much?!
*Slava Ukraini*
*Heroyam Slava*
Ridiculous
Barbarians! War criminals should be brought to justice.
Are we expected to believe that the Ukrainians aren't up to exactly the same kind of thing?
Sadly, every country has a specialist of sorts. Maybe not to this degree but a cold, desensitized individual that will go to many lengths, mostly sociologically to get the truth out of you & get in your head. I can't even imagine how many confess to stuff that they never did or lie just to make it stop, the torture that is. It is the specialists job and that's why only few find themselves capable of doing such horrific inhuman acts against man kind. I would imagine some of them may even get off on it as disturbing as this may sound depending on how desensitized they may be. It was truly disturbing seeing that jar of teeth in a past news report of crime and torture against some of the Ukrainian people. It resembled a past horrible war in Germany. I hope they catch up to these individuals that are torturing people. If they don't catch up with them there is someone far bigger that is aware of all that will handle it and see that they get their just punishment in the very end- GOD
A War Crime is War Crime. Just as a fact is a fact.
How would one interigate such a person? 🤔 I find this unforeseen war horrifically sad and I hope it ends soon. No one benefits from war.
Time arrange something special for the Specialist…eh…Please arrange it for the people of Kherson..this is a challenge
War in Ukraine is the biggest slap in the face for all of those EU politics who had a good relationship and believed Putin all the time such as Angela Merkel, Silvio Berlusconi, Jeremy Corbyn and unfortunately still in power Macron and Orban.
I know Macron was making phone calls to him few days before the invasion Putin knowing all along it was pointless. The west should have done something when he stole back Crimea instead we allowed his master plan to bare fruits.
This was Russia’s speciality in the Baltic states. I wonder how Russians feel proud of their country in contrast to their victims who don’t behave like this. Russia must be held to account.
Disgusting treatment of this man just for the sport of it.
Horrible and unimaginable humans can be so barbaric 👎😡
In Radio Free Europe/liberty we trust
Hope he gets all possible support for him to heal. Hats off to his bravery 💪🙏
#StopRussia
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#MoreSanctionsOnRussia #ItSanctionsOnRussia
#SupportUkraine
#DonateUkraine
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🥇💖🇺🇦 Heroic Sava🥇💖🇺🇦
Be strong ukrain i pray your victory and freedom god bless you 🙏🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦❤❤❤❤🇵🇭
ruZZki must pay!
I'm sure every nation is run by these specialists.
Well, you'd be wrong. Generalisations are never good. And that's just the ones that make sense, unlike yours.
Just wondering what sort of psychopath would actually torture people. How do they deal with it in the creepy putrid mind after the event.
They have regressed into simple stinking Gibbons
putin has been doing it for 23 years. What is a Standard Operating Procedure for your boss is thus part of acceptable culture.
Pardon me if i dismiss this as BS
To clarify: That Man is so wicked....not, the poor guy who was tortured...just want to be clear, not misunderstood.
Slava Urkraini! 🇺🇦
Putin is a soviet and this is a kgb type move. Damn him
And we have never did that and worse 😂
Barbaric , what have these Russian mothers bred. War is one thing but to torture people is horrendous.
I'll take "Shit That Never Happened" for $1000 Alex
Give them nato membership now. What are we waiting for, another worthless treaty with that mad man? Does anyone think he will stop in the Donbas?
Agreed, the stupidity of including Russia in NATO removes NATO’s credibility.
It's beyond belief that the Russians would do this, and to their _'Slavic brothers'_ ... I really thought that stuff went out with the collapse of the USSR.
This is like the old CHEKA and then Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky.
Hopefully all that participated in any of this will get the same treatment. I realize we should try to be above such things, and it won't bring anyone back, but an example needs to be made of these people.
PS *SLAVA UKRAINI!!* 🇺🇦
Рашистам после такого один выход остаться вживых сдаваться.
He said she said
A gossip
Stop the press everyone! Elena Berwick has something really important to say!
???.............????.........WTF........????
Nothing special about a beast who has sold his soul to Satan. His torture will be eternal.
after this war， Ukraine need the Mossad group to catch " the Specialist "
There were many Serbian war criminals who had extensive experience from the Yugoslavian war who are in this war helping Russians. May they rot in a very hot place.
🇺🇦🇺🇲🇺🇦🇺🇲🇺🇦☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️
1:16 этим ранам ни один год... хотя кому это интересно...
ruskies tortured everyone who they invaded in the past.. respect to all survivors
It's the Russian version of Guantanamo.
No equivalence. Pytki Rusky.
@@franceslock1662 Bolo by to ekvivalentné, keby Vietnam použil drony na lov amerických vojnových zločincov nad územím USA?
@@franceslock1662 Would it be equivalent if Vietnam used drones to hunt down US war criminals over US territory?
And the Gestapo/SBU are a bunch of saints and Boy Scouts I suppose.
Aha, yet another orc speaks, straight from GRU headquarters. As you know, this war continues only because your man Putin enjoys ruining Russia. So brittle a person.
It just breaks my heart...that man is so wicked. The Bible tells us that the heart of man is evil, wicked, who can know it? Only the Lord knows how wicked is man.
My dear, sweet mother used to say, "Man's inhumanity to man." And, I think of the dark evil and cruelty of abortion....and of people like this man who was tortured by another man.
Our only hope is Christ the Lord and Messiah. Shalom. 💜🕊💜
While I agree the torturer is a d*ck, perhaps you'd like to explain Passover to us. Something about 'first born' wasn't it?
How can anyone be right in the head after this torture. The Russian are monster's. There's hundreds of year's worth of hate after this finishes in the field. The effects of this invasion will last a long time. One person has set in motion year's of hostility between two peoples. 👊☘️❤️
RuZZians will be hold accountable for all that 😑
Russian mentality is just messed up. Being criminal and mentally ill considered here prestigious.
Les Russes vont payer très cher pour avoir fait des cochonnerie comme ça 😡
Yet some people in America still seem to support Russia. What is wrong with people?
Such people have swallowed the Russian propaganda hook line and sinker. Also such people usually lack critical thinking skills.
Now they no how the Russians that lived in the donbass region has felt for decades when the azolf battalions come threw the city and torture innocent Russian civilians for no reason
Pytki Rusky
1:16 these wounds are not a single year old ... although who cares ...
Nothing different from what they have been doing in Chechnya, Abkhazia, Syria, Mali, and of course Crimea and Donbas, and in Afghanistan for 10 years
Many russian murderer and those russian who where torturing Ukrainians has a price to Pay. In this life, and the next in Hell.
So what both sides are doing it
Pytki Rusky.
Ukraine is going to hunt these perpetrators for years in future. I mean individually, in Russia, perhaps when the torturer is walking his dog 5 years from now. There will be pay-back.
International criminal courts are great but some accounts will be settled differently. Some crimes cannot be forgiven.
It's time to giving Russian POW only breed and water we see how Ukrainian POW come out of captivity all skinny and have to go tru months of rehabilitation while the enemy comes out healthy and ready to fight again
Where are you getting that from lmao 😂😂
That's ok, Russia is still heavily promoted on Amazon Prime showing how noble and gracious they were during ww2. Lucky for us Amazon continues to show Russia and Russians in such a positive light
Thank You for this info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The most hated country is Russia.
God bless Ukraine 🇺🇦 🙏
is the Time Traveler also "The Specialist"
Should be asking The Sun that not this channel
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم صلي وسلم على شيدنا محمد ةعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين
Just the propaganda video alone is against the Geneva convention..
Russian military 🪖🎖️🤛😡🖕
Sei hospitalidade é quando vc acorda pra vida e passa seus bens materiais e financeiros pro meu advogado e sai da minha vida e compra seu cigarro com seu dinheiro e o médico possa fazer cirurgia na sua coluna a família da Erika não quer vc aqui eu nasci no Morumbi onde e a casa do Márcio? Onde eu vou trabalhar?
No caralho que ta foda.
biased channel
Pytki Rusky.
Yeah well sorry mate. Can't help that. They actually report the news here.
It's not like Novaya Gazeta where Anna Politkovskaya was assasinated in 2006 for writing the truth in 'Putin's Russia', or Sergei Magnitsky was killed after torture with the full knowledge of putin but reported as a medical condition.
You see we do not have to report things with a putin filter.
23 years of putin filters is enough lies to make a person not know what truth is anymore. You seem to be one of them.
allah lays huna. lam akin huna abda. lan tusaeida.
If this guy was seriously tortured he would of told them everything anyone would. Looking at him he didn't suffer to muxh
Words, words, words. Anyone can say anything they want to the camera. From the facts there is a wounded man and that's it. What can we talk about if prisoners are shot ALL over the camera. These are not words, but filmed and published materials. Is there a similar video about Russian soldiers? Remember about Mrs. Denisova's lies. The one who lied about rape. Lies about Buchyu. I don't believe the words anymore.
Fake news .mentiras. Masonges.lies .de nuevo.,!
I wonder if Mr. Zelensky would be so stoic under the same conditions.
But he just poses in a green t-shirt and is billed a hero in his mansion.
At this point the war only continues for Zelensky's pride on the cover of Vogue magazine!
Aha, the orc speaks, straight from GRU headquarters. As you know, this war continues only because your man Putin enjoys ruining Russia. So brittle a person.
@@michaellastname4922 Orcs are fictional characters in modern gaming terms?
So you're a child whose experience of the world is via an LED/LCD screen?
Does your mama know you're chatting with adults online?