Bellingcat was able to identify the main participant in the video of the torture of a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
It turned out to be a former employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations from Tuva, Ochur-Suge Mongush, born in 1993. Subsequently, he joined as a mercenary in the so-called “Akhmat” battalion.
The torture took place on the territory of the Privolye sanatorium in the Lugansk region.
Ochur-Suge Mongush himself tried to deny his involvement, but gave himself away, confused in the testimony.
The video of the execution of a POW consists of two videos that are difficult to determine the location and time, but there are many other details analyzed in detail by the Conflict Intelligence Team. First of all, the hat of the criminal with a pattern in the form of seashells and tassels over the brim is striking.
In addition, the second video shows a black bracelet on the killer’s left hand. The same bracelet is seen in the footage where the sadist, wearing surgical gloves, cripples the captive.
He is wearing a Ukrainian military shirt (this often happens with Russian mercenaries, poorly supplied in Ukraine). Another important detail in the background is a white car with a black “Z” spray-painted on the passenger door. The car model is IKCO Samand, a four-door sedan made in Iran.
This man and car can be found in other videos. In at least five videos you can see the same “cowboy” with a bracelet, and in much better quality (RT, RIA Novosti, Patrick Lancaster, “Investigation and Portraits”, Kadyrov 95).
For example, on June 27, RT and RIA Novosti published their videos filmed at the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. The facility, on the territory of which there were hundreds of civilians fleeing the invasion, on June 25 came under the control of Russian mercenaries, including from the Chechen battalion Akhmat.
When an Akhmat fighter with a Chechen flag patch on his shoulder speaks to the camera, the same cowboy in an identical hat can be seen in the background pulling out ammunition.
Another freeze frame shows the same black bracelets as the torture video.
A video posted on June 28 by pro-Kremlin American blogger Patrick Lancaster shows the same group of Akhmat fighters, along with a sadist in a hat, in Severodonetsk. In the same video, a car with a spray-painted letter “Z” gets into the frame.
On July 11, the Investigations and Portraits YouTube channel published a half-hour video filmed in the area of the Donets River west of Lysychansk, which was then under Russian control. In these frames, the “cowboy” bracelet is especially clearly visible, a military shirt with the same bandage on the left arm is clearly visible.
But, of course, the main thing that made it possible to identify the criminal and compare him on different videos is his face.
It was possible to identify the “cowboy” sadist using face search sites.
Source: Racurs
