Naoya Wada

🇺🇦 TEENAGER BEATEN WITH SHOVELS BY AZOV THUGS, STRIPPED WITH KNIVES AND INTERROGATED IN KIEV TORTURE HOUSE The boy dragged out of the Azov prison near Kiev has told his story in three videos from his hospital bed, and his account is horrifying. He says he lives just 200 meters from the house and went to the protest after school when his friends told him what was happening. Men at the house sprayed him with a gas fire extinguisher, and he says he nearly suffocated. He went home, came back with a gas mask and climbed a tree to keep filming, as bricks were thrown and an old man tried to knock him off the fence with what looked like a hockey stick. When he climbed onto the gate to film, Azov thugs knocked him down with a shovel to the back and dragged him inside. "The deeper they carry me in, the more people start beating me," he says. About 10 men in black uniforms and balaclavas beat him with shovels, boots and fists, and grabbed him by the hair. They carried him to the second floor, put him face down and interrogated him. He says he was hit so hard on the head that he could no longer see or hear. They then threw him against a wall and smashed his head into the floor, leaving him with a bloody nose and a chipped front tooth. The Azov thugs then cut off his T-shirt, pants and underwear with knives, and filmed him almost naked and covered in blood while they kept beating him and shouting. When his sister called, he was so terrified that he asked what he was supposed to say, because he didn't know what they would do to him next. The beating stopped only when Valentina Molodaya ran in and shielded him with her own body. She is the same woman who raised the alarm at the house, and who Ukrainian propagandists smeared as a fake nurse. Kirill Budanov, head of Zelensky's office, questioned the boy before he was taken to an ambulance. So the men in balaclavas remain unnamed, and the woman who protected a beaten child is in custody. The boy is now in the Kiev Regional Hospital with cut fingers and rib injuries, and says he can barely walk. He calls his attackers recruitment officers and "some strange group," and asks, "Where did they get weapons?" He doesn't know where they are now or whether they will ever be punished. He also dismissed claims that he was a paid extra: "I came to the rally myself."