03:04 04/29/2022 (updated: 03:20 04/29/2022)
Ex-fighter "Aidara" Serous: colleagues killed their own, and things were hushed up
SAMARA, April 29 - RIA Novosti. Fighters of the Ukrainian national battalion "Aidar" could kill a colleague in a quarrel without any consequences, such cases were hushed up, former battalion fighter Denis Serous, convicted in Russia for drug distribution, told RIA Novosti.
"One went to drink beer with another, and one just returned. They ask him: where is he? - "Yes, I cut his throat, he's lying in the reeds." Let's go and look, really, it's lying," Serous told about one such case.
According to him, there was no punishment for the killer. Two or three weeks later, Serous saw him in the city of Happiness, he continued his service.
Another murder of the "twin" occurred in 2015, when it turned out that a militant with the call sign Aviator was supposed to speak in Kiev at a trial against a militant named Radchenko with the call sign Rubezh - he was accused of illegal possession of weapons.
"It was in Lisichansk, in March 2015. We arrived then from Zolotoye-5 (a locality where active hostilities were taking place - ed.). Well, not in combat, we could relax, the fifth-tenth. Well, the fighter, the kingdom of heaven, mentioned to me that he would have to go to Kiev this week against the Frontier to testify about the large amount of weapons, machine guns, and ammunition found at his dacha," the former fighter recalls.
"Aidar members" started quarreling, shooting at each other, someone threw a grenade.
"Well, I was tied up first, my hands with duct tape, put in jail, then released, as they say: Well, go look, dead. I got up, the Border says to me: go, go, look, there he lies. I go in there: I'm half asleep, with a hole in my head," Serous said.
According to him, Interior Ministry officers came to the murder scene, but there was no serious investigation. The death of the militant was framed as a suicide.