Ukrainian soldier who was castrated while held prisoner back at front line ‘to be away from women’

A Ukrainian soldier who was castrated while held captive by Russians insisted on going back to the frontline.

The survivor, aged 28, who spent three months in a Russian prison with another 25-year-old Ukrainian, revealed the horrific experience was worse than hell after they were both reportedly castrated with a knife.

The man has now rejoined soldiers on the front lines, according to psychologist Anzhelika Yatsenko, 41, to whom the two soldiers were referred after they were released in a prisoner exchange and returned to Ukraine.

“He says he’s needed and it’s easier to be in a place where there are no women. Given what happened, I think he wants to kill Russians,” she said The Sunday times.

She also speculated that the soldier might feel his life was worthless after his traumatic time as a prisoner of war and might want to die.

A tall residential building lies partially destroyed after a rocket attack on January 15, 2023 in Dnipro, Ukraine

Based on her previous experience helping young men facing severe hardship, she knew it was likely that the survivors had both been tortured for being suicidal and the younger soldier had already attempted suicide.

The men couldn’t tell her what had happened for a month, but they could tell whenshe went to the bathroom and cried – because it was the most horrible thing she had ever heard.

After beating the two Ukrainian soldiers to within an inch of their lives, drunken Russian troops castrated them with a knife, The Sunday Times reports.

One of the victims said they didn’t know how they were still alive because of the amount of blood they saw.

And the sick Russians doubled down on the humiliation by telling them they were doing it so they couldn’t have children, which Ms. Yatensko described as genocide.

The older of the two men has returned to work in the Ukrainian army.

The Russian military used a number of inhumane and disgusting tactics during the war with Ukraine.

Russia also reportedly uses electric shocks, hoods and mock executions on Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war, UN experts warned this week.

A group of UN experts said on Thursday they had written to Moscow to express concern over the use of torture by Russian forces in their attacks on Ukraine.

They said in a statement that the torture included electric shocks, hijackings and mock executions and was carried out to obtain intelligence, extract confessions or in response to alleged support for the Ukrainian armed forces.

It had resulted in damage to internal organs, broken bones and fractures, strokes and psychological trauma, they said.

In April, a Russian soldier admitted to executing Ukrainian prisoners of war by slitting their throats during a phone call, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said.

In the intercepted telephone conversation, the soldier, identified by the SBU as Yevgeny Suchko, who was deployed to Ukraine in 2022, can be heard describing in detail how he slit Ukrainians’ throats.

Moscow has previously denied torturing or ill-treating POWs and says it does not deliberately target civilians in Ukraine (pictured, Putin on April 27).

The 28-year-old soldier says in the intercepted conversation that there is ‘no point’ in holding prisoners of war and that they ‘must be taken away’.

The SBU said it was working to bring “every war criminal from Russia” to justice and ensure they are punished.

Moscow has previously denied torturing or ill-treating POWs and says it does not deliberately target civilians in Ukraine.

While allegations of torture have previously been leveled against both sides in the 15-month conflict, the team of independent UN experts said the Russian forces’ methods may be “state-approved.”

According to UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, who sent the letter on June 12 along with several other independent experts, the consistency and methods of alleged torture suggested a level of coordination that required the consent of superiors.

She said that following orders from a superior cannot be used to justify torture and that anyone involved in the torture of others should be immediately investigated and prosecuted.