Products, appreciating the past for our daily belarus 24. State Security Committee of belarus together with the tv agency of the beltelerdiocompany present a project on the genocide of the belarusian people during the great patriotic war 18 bloody fire marches of the ukrainian battalion in belarus the first punitive operations this is january 6, 1943 in the village of shvelevichy khotyn 30 years old killer at the scene of the massacre, a separate exit was a bad one, they brought him to the hotel, for which he remained silent, confrontations and personal confessions of vasyuras colleagues, when the command was given, they set fire to the barn, which was done by your police, which of the punishers escaped punishment, smovsky and vinnitsa were not tried for the crime, kotryuk also managed to escape, that is, using her service in a foreign region, retribution for crimes without a statute of limitations, even today there are some legal possibilities to posthumously find them guilty. Film from the cycle without a statute of limitations death battalion, watch right now, every 30 seconds, the silence is not broken by the ringing of the bell, in memory of those who were brutally destroyed by the ukrainian nazis from. Today, on the site of a small Forest Village , there is a memorial ensemble, a symbol of all those who were burned and unregenerated settlements of belarus, the natural landscape was not changed here. On the foundations of twentysix houses there are concrete, food pipes with bells, and an open nastya schoolgirl, like an invitation to enter a house that does not exist. The only adult who survived the fire was the village blacksmith joseph kaminsky. Several more children escaped in khatyn, sasha zhelabkovich managed to escape when the village was surrounded, vitya zhilabkovich s mother covered her body with her body, thus giving him life twice. Sonya yaskevich managed to go to her aunt in the neighboring village, her brother volodya hid in a potato hole. I dont remember how long i sat in the pit, but it was already getting dark when i heard the trumpet signal. I realized that the punishers were leaving our village, then i crawled out of the hole. The whole village is on fire. Ran into the forest, thinking that my relatives and the rest of the villagers were hiding from the punitive forces in the forest, i ran through the forest, shouted, but no one responded, then i went to the village to visit my uncle, the next day, march 23, 1943, we uncle yaskevich joseph went to the village of khatyn. The barn in which the punishers burned people smouldered. On its ashes lay charred human bones, and charred corpses lay near the barn. Among the corpses i found my brother victor and two sisters. I recognized my father by his teeth, since he was burned beyond recognition, and i recognized my mother by her shoes. She was lying under the fence, holding the hand of her younger brother vladik. For the executioners who killed and burned 149 people, khatyn became an association for their punitive activities. The policemen from this nazi unit are called khatyn killers, although in the territory of occupied belarus there are 118 ukrainian the Police Battalion took part in the destruction of hundreds of settlements in the minsk, vitebsk and grodno regions. In total, there are about 200 volumes, which contain evidentiary materials from decisions to initiate a criminal case to protocols of interrogations and confrontations. Hundreds of volumes are several criminal cases against former military personnel of the 118th Ukrainian SecurityPolice Battalion, schutsmandschaft bataln. In march 1973 , the first Group Criminal case was opened. These were five people, that is, locusta, knap, trigger, lazinsky sokhlov. In 1974, a criminal case was opened against mileshka, and 12 years later, in 1986 , vasyura was arrested. Employees of the department of the state Security Committee for the grodno region contacted the punishers. We sent out separate instructions for some regions of ukraine, the baltic states, and russia and received answers that he lives and works in donetsk. Number 15 donetsk shakhtostroy lakusta was detained first on april 1, 73. Lakusta did not change either his first or last name, or his place of birth, the village of luzhany, chernivtsi region. On the same he was interrogated for a day. They started asking him, where were you during the great patriotic war . He answers where are we going from grodny, ive been waiting for you for a long time. During the first interrogation, which took place in donetsk and lasted about 40 hours, lacusto spoke about the events in khatyn. One day, the first platoon of the First Company drove in cars towards minsk. On the highway he was ambushed by partisans, was fired upon, and the partisans killed a german and several policemen. After that, the entire battalion was. Burned there, and the village was also burned. I stood cordoned off and in destruction did not take part in the village residents, they had a practice, after any punitive operation, permission was given to rob the village, that is, everything from towels, clothes, some valuable things was taken out immediately after the arrest during the first interrogations, as a rule the punitive officers did not admitted their participation in the extermination of civilians, kurka generally denied in every possible way that he served in the 118th battalion. Until june 1942, i lived in the village of large townspeople, was engaged in agriculture, in june fortytwo the germans detained me and brought to the city of lev, from where a day later they were taken to germany, in the german army, as well as in the Police Battalions created by the germans, i did not serve, during the war years i was not in the city of kiev on the territory of belarus, i was immediately taken to germany, such that they began to tell everything at once, there was no, no, i didnt kill anyone with the partisans , its me, even now youre shooting, no matter what, not a single partisan, not a single house was burned, i have an honest soul, so that the executioner speaks, investigators looked for witnesses and interrogated them, arranged confrontations with the accused, the punishers were taken to the scene of their crime, at each interrogation they presented new facts and evidence about the extermination of people in populated areas, but then when there was evidence, they admitted that we didnt shoot. The interrogation protocols of the accused witnesses make it possible to compile not only an anthology of the crime 118 Ukrainian Police officer, but also monitors its evolution, from creation to liquidation. The 118th Ukrainian Police battalion was founded in kiev in august 1942. Backbone of the unit became representatives of the organization of ukrainian nationalists, bukovinian smoking. Being influenced by the propaganda of ukrainian nationalists, i voluntarily went to serve in the ukrainian nationalist formation. This formation was called smoking. They explained to us that kuren would not fight, the more literate would occupy leadership positions in government bodies in the territory occupied by the germans, and the illiterate would serve as guards. The goal is to prevent the germans from robbing ukraine. Together with me, the villagers ended up in voinovskys kuren luzhany, katryuk vladimir, katryuk nikolay. In the fall of 1941, almost simultaneously with the wehrmacht units, the bukovinians arrived in kiev. They were involved in guarding warehouses, together with the occupation authorities , establishing the socalled new order. They undergo initial training, that is , a drill step, some study the rules, they are not given weapons yet, but here they are guarding local warehouses and even guarded a monastery. Then the fighters of bukovina smoking take the oath of allegiance to the third reich and become part of 115 police. Security battalion, individual units of which were involved in the extermination of jews and gypsies in babyn yar. One of the companies of the 115th battalion later became the First Company of the 118th battalion. Meleshka, lakusta, knap, kurka, lazinsky, sakhno, this is the First Company. The Second Company and the third company, they were formed from prisoners of war and representatives of the kiev region. The commander of the battalion was the german erich korner, his deputy was konstantin smovsky, a colonel who served under petliura, then in the polish army, and during the great patriotic war he went service to the nazis. The strike force is battalion the first is roto, its commander is vinnitsky. In the fall , vasyura and meleshka arrive at the unit; they were sent from germany after graduating from the school of the eastern ministry, or, as it was called, the school of propagandists. At the disposal of the team. Germany, from the city of woodzec, together with a former officer of the soviet army, vasyura grigory, who at the beginning of the war, like me, was captured by the germans, we were sent to kiev after undergoing special training at the German School of propagandists. All preparation was aimed at persuasion and conveying information. Complete antisoviet orientation, hatred of the soviet union, of course, using nationalist ideas. At the end of november 1942, Ukrainian Policemen were sent to belarus to fight the partisans. At the end of december 1942, the 118th Ukrainian Police battalion changed its location. Headquarters, first and third. Taken to the Regional Center of pleshchenitsy. This was the status of the settlement during the years of occupation. The Second Company is sent towards slutsk. In in pleschenitsy, the unit was located in the barracks of the former pleschenitsy border detachment. From here, on january 6, 1943, the day before christmas, the ukrainian nazis set off for a punitive operation in the village of chmelevichy. On the approach to the village, on the orders of smovsky and vasyura, shelling of the settlement began. This is how the punishers paved the way for themselves. Having burst into chmelevichy, old people, women and children were taken out into the street half naked. They were kept in the cold for several hours under the threat of execution. At this time, they robbed houses and took out livestock, then set fire to the village. 58 houses and outbuildings were destroyed. The chmelevichs became the first target of the Ukrainian Policemen. In february , several more actions to exterminate the civilian population took place. Final. The battle chord in the minsk region of the 118th battle was given in the village of dalkovichi in the modern lagoi district on may 13, 1943. So it was said that there are many partisans in dalkovichi, and the headquarters of the partisans is located there. Dvasira, directly, took part and commanded the destruction of my village dalkovichi, he. Civilians and six partisans, sleeping at that time it was half a night of sleep. At the memorial, which was installed at the beginning of the village, exactly in the place where the executioners installed machine guns and fired indiscriminately at the village , they did not aim at the partisans, there was indiscriminate shooting, civilians were killed, and on the lists of the dead there were several dozen names with the same date death, arrested a sick man. His father, who was lying on the ward, was pulled out by his hair in the territory of the preyard, kicked, knocked out, his eyes were knocked out, his ears were cut off, half alive, seeing that there were possibilities from this the old man was exhausted, and after that they abandoned him and drove off to his shoulders. After them my father died. Policemen from the 118th ukrainian battalion, along with other nazi units, were recruited to participate in punitive actions. Under the pretext of fighting partisans, the executioners exterminated the civilian population and burned the village. The orders existing in the battalion and strictly maintained by the command were aimed at instilling in the punitive forces such qualities as cruelty and a thirst for destruction. Towards soviet people and everything soviet, suspicion towards each other, the manifestation of pity and feelings of compassion for the victims was considered as sympathy and assistance to the bandits, as the germans called the partisans the population of the villages of the partisan zone. On may 20, 1943, on the first day of the punitive operation of cottbus, which the nazis developed in strict secrecy, killers from the 118th ukrainian battalion destroyed the village of nova veleyka, modern dokshitsy district. The reason for the reprisal was that on the eve of the tragedy on may 19 , 1943 , a staff worker blew himself up near a bridge across the river near the village of mina. A storekeeper with a surname very similar to the surname of the Battalion Commander slovsky. It differs from smovsky in only one letter. Vasyura ordered the village to be burned. But before that , the police looted the houses of local residents, stole them with codes, and then set them on fire. Next on the list for destruction was the village of veleika in the same dokshetsky district. Near the vizle cemetery, Ukrainian Police ran into partisans. A shootout ensued. The partisans retreated. May 20, 1943. They burst into the village, burned five collective farm buildings and 42 houses with courtyards buildings. But this also seemed not enough to them, and on may 22, 1943, they burst into the village, part of the population, again for connections with the partisans, they herded into a barn, thats 38 people, they were old people, women and children, they acted according to a wellestablished scheme, when they set fire to a barn, they deployed machine gunners to shoot those who tried to escape, for the 118th ukrainian battalion such actions became classics, during the punitive. Operation cottbus in the bikgomal region alone, more than 4,000 civilians were killed, about 3,000 were hijacked forced labor in germany. Residents of the village of osawa also appear in these statistics of nazi crimes. On may 27, 1943 , the 118th Ukrainian Police battle dealt with them. The victims were the families of the partisans. They were given out by the local elder. 78 people were shot and burned. The operation in the village of osawa was led by meleshka; on his orders , women were arrested and children were driven into a barn, and after it became known that the headmans son was also among the partisans, he was thrown into a well. The rest of the population was lined up, they watched with their own eyes, how it all happened. Three children aged 7 to 10 managed to get out of this barn, but they were shot with karate. Operation cottbus 118 Ukrainian Police battalion is transferred to the territory of the modern grodno region to participate in the punitive operation herman. From novogrudok the police moved to nolebukskaya pushcha. About ten kilometers from the village of bagshty in the modern ivyevsky district, in a forested swampy area, a dugout was discovered in which jews were hiding. The second and third were given out by an old jewish man. Mainly in dugouts there were old people, women and children, they had no weapons. Executioners 118. I saw a dugout torn apart by grenade explosions, at the bottom of which lay about twenty mutilated corpses of men, women, and children. It was impossible to see the dugout, the bodies of the dead were torn to pieces, human flesh was mixed with the earth. When we arrived , lakusta, kotryuk, filippov, ilchuk, the commander of the guns. They searched the clothes of the dead, removed rings from their hands, pulled out gold teeth, and took gold coins and other valuables from their clothes. I remember well how biskanderov searched through the panties of the remains of the murdered women and took out gold coins. The Battalion Headquarters are quickly transferred to the lead. The first advanced company was located in ivye, the second and third in the shchuchinsky district. Being on the territory of the western regions of belarus, the 118th battle supported the ukrainians who destroyed the poles during the volyn slaughter. In belarusian villages , vasyuras subordinates also began exterminating the polish population. People were killed by families in different localities. Lipneshki, subbotniks, geroniony, vasilishki. In in march of fortyfour, policemen 118 of the ukrainian battalion near the village of morino, ivyevsky district, pursued one of the partisans for a long time, fired with a rifle and a machine gun to no avail, then used a mortar, staged a real. Chase, killed the partisan near the neighboring village of krivichi, on the opposite bank of the neman , then took their anger out on civilians, fired at the cart, and wounded a teenager. The final operation in belarus for the 118th battalion took place near the village of yuratishki, it was a battle with partisans, after which, together with by the nazis, ukrainians went to the territory of east prussia and became part of the thirtieth ss division. After the retreat, batal was transferred to france, by the way, on the way to france, kerner, smovsky, vasyura, and some other leaders disappeared. The ukrainian commander smovsky ended up in the usa, where he died, escaping punishment, just like the commander of the First Company vinnitsky, who led the ukrainian diaspora in canada. His battalion subordinate kotryuk also settled in canada. He was a beekeeper. That is, he raised bees, which is what he lived for, he didnt like it talk about the past, although he did not deny his participation in the transition to the side of germany, participation in the 18th battalion, but he did not fully tell anyone the details; after 30 years, during investigative actions, the remains found on the site of dugouts in Nalibokskaya Pushcha were sent to the ex. It was for this crime that the Israeli Simon Wiesenthal Center involved in the search for nazi criminals included kotriuk on the list of most wanted persons. In the soviet union, they have been searching for katryuk since the late forties. Oganami state security sent various requests to state archives, departmental archives, asking for help in finding documents confirming their punitive action. Requests were sent throughout the soviet union, including ukraine, however, many answers came that they were not listed, their fate was unknown. Independent belarus also repeatedly sent requests to canada, but the kotryuk was not issued. By the way, he even received a socalled pension. Germany covered all the wishes of the executioner of khatyn, and he, including german funds, financed the installation of a monument to participants in the bukovina smoking in chernivtsi. The criminal case against the translator of the battalion lukovich was discontinued due to the death of the accused. Lakusta, kurka, knap, lazinsky and sakhnu were convicted. Only lakusta was sentenced to death. Then a case was opened against meleshek. He was also sentenced to death. Executions, the extreme case against the executioners of khatyn was initiated in the eightysixth year against the chief of staff vasyura. They were all brought to the kwasyuri process, and there is lacusa and knap, and kurka, and sakhnoy and lazinsky brought everyone, they all testify to this. Before the train is printed, but i will talk to them, you will understand that this is a serious matter, they have a separate compartment, ours are next near the toilet, one of our employees is always in the corridor, because you never know who. Knows what they are capable of. Vasyura did not admit guilt for a crime committed against civilians during the great patriotic war, denied participation in the punitive action in khatyn, said that he was in lithuania, was looking for his wife and daughter, but the testimony of witnesses and his colleagues in the 118th battalion played a role. The executioner began to confess. His main role is the organization of punitive operations, and personal participation in the torture and murder of soviet citizens. Only numerous and confirmed, therefore the materials of the case are the most voluminous and the verdict against him is, perhaps, the most voluminous. The criminal case against vasyura amounted to 17 volumes, the verdict alone took 100 pages. It was announced a few days before the new year of 1987. Execution. On january 6, vasyura wrote a thirtypage cassation appeal, but it was rejected. The verdict was left unchanged. The punisher was shot on october 2, 1987. The fate of the Battalion Commander korner himself remains unknown; only from oblique evidence, so to speak, is it known that he and the battle commander retreated from the territory of the grodno region when they were still there. Germany and further traces of him are lost. The criminal case against the last executioner of the hunter trick has not been completed. The investigation plans to resume even after the death of the criminal. Katryuk died at home in the canadian province of quebec at the age of 93 in 2015. Not all ukrainian nazis were held accountable for crimes for which there is no statute of limitations. We work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to keep you up to date with Current Events in the country and the world . 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