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A concentration camp was discovered in the region of Luhansk, where Russian speaking people were tortured, according to a false narrative disseminated by the Russian state media. It presents Russia as a state that, through its “special military operation” in Donbass, freed the local population and chased away “the Nazis” and “the nationalists”.
NEWS: “Izvestia” correspondent Ivan Litomin went to the concentration camp of the “Aidar” nationalist battalion (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) and filmed the Ukrainian nationalists’ secret jail.
The concentration camp is located in the village of Polovinkovo, Starobelsk district, in the LPR. The ‘aidarovist’ interrogators used a meat processing plant, surrounded by a tall concrete wall, to torture their victims inside. […] Practically nobody survived.”
REN TV has shown images from the “Aidar” battalion’s secret jail. According to witnesses, people were not only held in cold and damp rooms, they were sprayed with ice cold water to reduce their chance of survival to the minimum. They would bring here not only war prisoners from DPR, but also civilians who sympathized with the independent republics.”
NARRATIVE: Russia has discovered concentration camps in eastern Ukraine.
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The “Aidar” battalion, originally made up of volunteers and acting as a paramilitary group, fought against the pro-Russian forces in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics in 2014-2015. The presence of this battalion in the Donbass was noted and monitored by observers from the OSCE, the UN and other international organizations; some of them pointed out that various paramilitary groups were not part of the regular Kiev Armed Forces. Since 2016, Ukraine has taken action and included all paramilitary units in the national defense system
While Aidar’s presence in Donbass has been confirmed, no international organization with observers in the region has seen any concentration camp in western Ukraine , and the quarterly reports submitted by the OSCE stand proof of that.
Moreover, the Russian media contradicts itself: on the one hand it says that nobody has managed to survive the unbearable torture, but some online newspapers, Izvestia included, have published interviews with survivors of the said concentration camp, organized, allegedly, by the Nazi model.
In other words, on the one hand, the camps were secret, nobody knew about them and nobody survived them, but, on the other hand, there are many witnesses and survivors from 2014, some of the refugees in Russia, but Moscow has just now found out about them and their testimonies.
It should be noted that no TV station or news portal has published images of the concentration camp survivors. They’ve just given their names and cited their testimonies, and that raises a number of questions about the veracity of the information.
Finally, placing concentration camps near the demarcation line makes no sense. Usually, secret jails are not built near the front line, but in places that are difficult to reach.
In reality, the Russian TV stations have found former training centers for volunteer groups in Donbass from 2014-2015 and created propaganda narratives to find new justifications, for the domestic public opinion, for invading Ukraine.
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