Ukraine's Azov Brigade Admits Holding AWOL Soldiers At Residential House Amid Torture Allegations Authored by John Weeks via Antiwar.com , A riot erupted Monday night outside a residential house in Ukraine's Petropavlivska Borshchahivka , a suburb approximately 12 miles west of Kyiv, after social media posts claimed the military was torturing conscripts in the basement and that medics were being denied access to the wounded.
Approximately 200 people gathered at the house. They threw eggs, water bottles, and bricks at police and National Guard soldiers. After they broke through the brick wall surrounding the house, they were dispersed with tear gas and live ammunition warning shots.
A confrontation broke out on Nov. 2 in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, a village on the outskirts of Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians gathered near an unmarked facility with National Guard soldiers present following unverified reports that mobilized men were being unlawfully held... pic.twitter.