Nikita Chibrin says he still recollects his fellow Russian soldiers operating away after allegedly raping two Ukrainian girls throughout their deployment northwest of Kyiv in March.
“I saw them run, then I learned they were rapists. They raped a mother and a daughter,” he said. Their commanders, Chibrin mentioned, shrugged when knowing out about the rapes. The alleged rapists had been overpowered, he says; however, by no means punished for their crimes.
“They were never jailed. Just fired. Just like that: ‘Go!’ They were simply dismissed from the war. That’s it.”
Who is Nikita Chirbin?
Chibrin is a former soldier from the Russian metropolis of Yakutsk(a city in Russia) who says he served in the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade(SGMRB). The infamous Russian navy unit committed a war crime throughout their offensive in Bucha, Borodianka, and different cities and villages in north Kyiv.
In September, he was stranded by the Russian navy and fled to Europe through Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Soldiers from Chibrin’s brigade had been categorized war criminals by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in April after widespread graves obtained murdered civilians and lifeless bodies deceit in the streets had been found following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kyiv area.
Chibrin’s navy paperwork presents his commander as Azatbek Omurbekov, the officer in charge of the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. Omurbekov, often called the “Butcher of Bucha,” is under the authority of the European Union and the United Kingdom. However, The United States has sanctioned the complete brigade.
The Kremlin has contradicted any involvement in the mass killings and restated baseless claims that the photographs of civilians had been fake.
In a movement that sparked outrage worldwide, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the unit an honorary military title and glorified it for its “heroism” and “bold actions.”
Chibrin also stated that he didn’t see any of the intended heroism above many crimes.
Chilbrins take on mass killing –
Speaking to a reporter in a European nation, where he has asked for asylum, he elaborated on some of the crimes he says he encountered and heard accounts of and stated he would be ready to testify towards his unit at a global prison court bill. However, he admits that he did not perform any felony.
“I didn’t see murders, but I saw rapists running away, being chased (by dignified members of the unit) because they committed rape,” he said.
He additionally stated that the unit had a “direct command to murder” if any soldier shared details about the unit’s positions, whether navy or civilians.
“Also, if someone had a phone with them, we were allowed to shoot them,” he stated. He claims there may be little doubt that some of the boys in the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade had successfully killed unprotected ordinary human beings.
“There are maniacs who enjoy killing a man. Such maniacs turned up there,” Chibrin added.
In addition, Chibrin described extensive looting, with Russian soldiers taking computer systems, jewelry, and something they appreciated.
Why did Chilbrin choose to run away?
“They didn’t hide this at all. A lot from my unit, when we left Lipovka and Andreevka at the end of March, they took cars, vehicles, civilian cars and sold them in Belarus,” he said. “The mentality is, if you steal something, you are good. If nobody catches you, good! If you see something expensive and you steal it and don’t get caught, you are good.” he added.
As he was the unit’s commander, he mentioned they had been functionally conscious of the alleged rapes, murders, and looting. However, it took a little peculiarity to search for justice.
“They reacted like: ‘Whatever. It happened. So what?’ Actually, there was no reaction,” he stated. “Discipline goes [down the drain], there’s no discipline.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense was earlier requested to spotlight the allegations; however, there are no responses.
Chibrin had a small question: Russia will finally lose its war against Ukraine; however, not till many extra lives are forgotten.
“Because Russia won’t stop until big blood is spilled until everyone dies. Soldiers are cannon fodder to them. They don’t respect them,” he stated.
Having seen the prevention firsthand, he mentioned the tools Russian soldiers have does not match the number of weapons to which Ukraine has entry. He says that whereas Ukraine is receiving some of the most superior weaponry handy from its Western allies, the Russian military is counting on Soviet-era equipment that was used through the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
“Of course, Russia will lose because the whole world is supporting Ukraine. To think that they (the Russians) will win is stupid,” he said. “They thought they would occupy Kyiv in three days. What day is it now [of the war]? 260th? They thought they would come to Ukraine and encounter blossoms. But they were told to f*** off and thrown Molotov cocktails at.”
In response to him, men in Chibrin’s unit had been extraordinarily ill-prepared for a fight. He also said that the coaching his unit acquired consisted of commanders giving them a weapon, a goal, and 5,000 bullets.
“Keep shooting, and then you are free to go. No one was doing anything. There was no actual training. I worked with a computer at the office and worked as a lawnmower.” Chibrin added further.
The insufficiency of coaching became apparent immediately in Ukraine. However, he mentioned that the unit males who had been boasting about being “like Rambo” earlier had been deployed and got here again damaged. “Those who said they’d be shooting Ukrainians easily when they returned from the forefronts couldn’t even speak to me. They saw the war, they saw defeat, saw their [fellow] combatants being murdered, saw corpses. They realized everything, but they couldn’t run away.”
He mentioned many of the boys had been poorly educated, and most had no thought process of where they were headed.
“It was a big lie. It was military training with the Belarusian Army, and they lied to us. Then, on February 24, they just said everyone would go to war,” Chibrin stated, including that he primarily refused to go.
The first thing I said was, ‘Commander, f*** you, I don’t want to go to war,’ and he said, ‘Hey you, you will have big problems, you will go to jail, and your family will have big problems’ and then he attacked me and set me in a special vehicle and closed the door. And I couldn’t open [it] from inside. So, that’s how I went to Ukraine.”
How did Chilbrin survive?
Chibrin went on spending months in Ukraine periodically. Then, when the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade extracted at the end of March, from the empire northwest of Kyiv, following the dwindling offensive there, Chibrin and his unit returned to Belarus.
He mentioned he was affected by damage again and went to a navy hospital in Russia. However, after a short period, he was compelled to return to Ukraine in May. This time he was dispatched to the Kharkiv area in Japanese Ukraine, after which he dangled out in the forests around Izyum(a city in Ukraine).
After an eternity, he lastly discovered an opportunity to flee. He observed that commanders of different representations had been leaving the empire for Russia in a truck where he caught a chance and jumped in.
“I jump in [the bed of the truck], and wow, I see other guys are also leaving Ukraine. And they say we don’t want to [fight the] war; we paid the commander money (to drive). And after a long time of waiting, we managed to reach the Russian border, and the car stopped; where all the guys were jumping off, I, too, jumped. And I go to the Russia border, and I say I need medical help,” he stated while stuttering.
Additionally, Chilbrin mentioned that he spent almost a month in a hospital in Russia while he was bedridden most of the time in a day with horrible aches in his body, which is why he couldn’t focus on getting better attention and therapy. The people in the hospital said, “that if I wanted to go to a special sanatorium, I needed to sign a paper that said I’d go back to war.”
Also, he was on the verge of submitting paperwork to get his navy contract canceled when the Russian authorities established a ‘partial mobilization’ in late September, he mentioned.
“And my friends told me I needed to hide. “You need to find a place and hide; your contract will not be canceled because of the mobilization,” he mentioned. He wanted to get so far from the far east metropolis of Khabarovsk, where he was stationed; initially, Chilbrin fled throughout Russia to St. Petersburg, after which he took a train to Belarus. And once he reached there, he was capable of finding a middleman who assisted him in getting to Kazakhstan, from where he finally traveled to his present location.
As of now, he has decided to address the situation regarding the occasions he witnessed in Ukraine and even write down an anti-war track. “Hundreds of souls, hundreds of bodies of lost people. Hundreds of mothers without children,” the refrain goes.
