Budanov Blunder

Many similar buildings exist

Source: https://www.irishsun.com/news/279411739/ukraine-arrests-woman-who-exposed-azov-battalion-torture-chamber

The Irish Sun reports:

Ukraine arrests woman who exposed Azov battalion's 'torture chamber'

A Ukrainian court has ordered pretrial arrest without bail for the woman who raised allegations of torture at a facility in Kiev operated by the notorious neo-Nazi-linked Azov unit.

Valentina Molodaya arrived at the house in an ambulance and livestreamed herself pleading to be allowed inside to examine men she claimed were being held there in appalling conditions.

At a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, Kiev's Solomiansky District Court ordered Molodaya held for 60 days without bail. She is suspected of obstructing military activities, disclosing military locations and organizing mass unrest.

Molodaya denied accusations of organizing unrest and claimed that she is a medic who came to the house after being tipped off about a man who had allegedly been taken from hospital after surgery and beaten while held at the property.

However, prosecutors are calling Molodaya's qualifications and motivations into question, accusing her of being paid to stage a provocation. She has also been added to the notorious Mirotvorets website - which publishes personal information on people it considers "enemies" of Ukraine - as an alleged "professional provocateur" and is accused of taking part in Russian "information campaigns."

Well if she is a professional provocateur then she is an extraordinarily brave one.

People have been hung from lampposts in Lviv for less.

It was lucky she was filmed otherwise she could have been added to the list of the many 'disappeared'.

It's a different level of 'provocation' to write provocative blog posts online from the safety of your own home to turning up in person at an Azov 'detention' centre in Ukraine and face the wrath of the Ukrainian state.

The MSM seems to be silent on this whole incident as it clearly does not fit the narrative of Ukraine good, Russia bad.

The Hungarian Conservative reports:

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/ukraine-azov-secret-prison-boy-kyrylo-budanov-torture/

Boy, 14, Found in Azov Secret Prison near Kyiv, Budanov Admits Similar Sites Exist

The discovery of the 14-year-old further intensified the scandal. Eyewitnesses said the teenager had been beaten with a shovel, leaving him in a severely distressed condition. Kyrylo Budanov, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, visited the scene and spoke to the boy, describing the situation as ‘something that should not happen’ and promising to investigate the bizarre case.

However, Budanov made an even more alarming revelation when questioned about the existence of the facility. ‘Many similar buildings exist,’ he acknowledged, according to Ukraine’s Channel 24, adding that authorities would investigate why such facilities operated and what happened inside them. He also revealed that 14 people were being held at the property.

According to the Azov Corps, the property had been used by Military Unit 3121 as a ‘temporary deployment facility’, meaning that mobilized servicemen and soldiers apprehended after going absent without leave were ‘accommodated’ there before being transferred to their respective units.

And it's not the first time a 'torture chamber' has been found in Ukraine as the Daily Mail reported in July 2026.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15959527/Blood-stained-torture-chamber-axes-hammers-home-ex-cop-shot-female-Monaco-bomber-dead-revealed-spy-sent-crypto-funds.html

Blood-stained 'torture chamber' with axes and hammers is found in home of 'ex cop who shot female Monaco bomber dead' - as it's revealed 'he and spy had sent her crypto funds'

Although the location of the torture chamber - in Ukraine - was not highlighted by the Mail's report unlike the BBC's headline allegations at much the same time:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kkrx8jeno

Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC

What a PR disaster - now Ukraine is trying to blame Russia for its own torture centres.

You can't make this stuff up.


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