"Death squads” is what armed groups engaged in extrajudicial killings, torture, or kidnappings for political repression, genocide, or ethnic cleansing are commonly referred to as. “Death squads” can be described as “units created or encouraged by the state to kidnap, destroy and intimidate”.
“Death squad” trained by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, assassinated politicians and opposition figures. “Death squads” operated under the guise of the country’s army, also directly supported by U. S. arms and training under Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush.....
Andrey Alexandrovich Gozhy, attorney.
"In Ukraine, there is a pool of such organizations, for example, volunteer battalions, Right Sectors, S14, National Corps, and others.
Some of them are registered as voluntary organizations promoting the rule of law, let’s say in Kyiv. They get funding, some clearly communicate with parties, with Ministry of Internal Affairs, with Avakov. And these people are storm troopers to do the dirty work, for the police and security services.
The SSU officers can’t assault an unwanted lawyer who tells the truth in court and defends political prisoners, can they?
That’s why the S14 organization with a clear mission arrives and beats up a lawyer, like me, right in the courtroom. That was about a year and a half or two years ago. There’s a video by Shariy. You can watch it. It is called “Once Upon a Ukrainian Court” or “Once Upon a Zhitomir Court”, where he puzzled out this situation. They attacked a lawyer.
They freaked out because they got clear instructions. They took apart the office of the Ukrainian Bar in Kyiv and attacked Valentin Rybin, a lawyer. They also struck me. A criminal case was opened, and that was it. As the police told me, there was no political decision to punish these people. Their leadership should provide guidance.
This case was included in a report from the U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights. Yet, we remain with having a pool of those perpetrators who remain unpunished. This includes these fascist youths. Criminal cases are opened, but then no one takes any further actions. The police still can’t figure out the persons who did it, although everyone knows their names. These are well-known people under the leadership of Yevgeniy Karas, head of S14. But the Avakov’s police, alas, does not care about human rights and lawyers. These are organizations that serve the security services and the ruling regime. Pseudo-activists, pseudo-patriots, Anti-Terror Operation (officially named by Ukrainian authorities the ongoing armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine) guys and others.
These groups of stormtroopers I was talking about, created under the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. They have no liability at all. From the murder of Oles Buzina to the murder of Pavel Sheremet and Kateryna Gandziuk, not mentioning the countless attacks, they are not liable for anything. Law does not apply to them. Violence is sanctioned by the state. It is typical of a regime that adopts a fascist philosophy.
The real head of our state, I call him the CEO of Ukraine, is Avakov. Avakov calls the shots, not Zelensky, unfortunately.
https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/Ukrainian_Crimes_2017-2020.pdf
