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| 'If you keep your wife awake, we'll shoot you.' A Ukrainian brigade commander brutally 'cleansed' his native village |
| 2026-07-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Svyatoslav Lisitsyn [REGNUM] For the past few days, Ukraine has been rocked by a story that is bizarre even by today's standards: Stanislav Luchanov, commander of the 115th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ordered his subordinates to carry out a massacre of several civilians. The reason was that in his home village, they... were keeping his wife awake. Then a stern Ukrainian lieutenant colonel sent a dozen of his subordinates on a punitive operation—they kidnapped and killed two brothers from the same village. A missing persons report of Kalinovka residents Maksym and Roman Moseychuk was received by Kyiv Oblast police on July 3. Police discovered that one of the men and the officer's wife had been involved in a heated verbal altercation the previous day. "...the young men were listening to loud music and riding motorcycles. In response to the remark, the brothers swore. Subsequently, the villager's husband, who is a serviceman, demanded an apology from his wife, but the men rudely refused. Determined to take revenge, the perpetrator recruited other servicemen to his criminal plan." To punish the rude people, Lieutenant Colonel Luchanov assigned a group under the command of one of the brigade's battalion commanders, Senior Lieutenant Alexei Dovgolenko, holder of the Silver Cross. For this "combat mission," they were assigned a vehicle, a drone, and, of course, each one had an assault rifle. But besides the Moseychuk brothers, the list of "undesirables" compiled by Luchanov's wife included other neighbors who had somehow offended her. Even a minor was among those on the list. In short, the number of victims could have been many more—the brigade commander's wife turned out to be vindictive and spiteful. The punitive forces didn't know the village, so at first they simply walked the streets and tried to extract the addresses of those on the list from passersby. For some reason, the lieutenant colonel deemed it unnecessary to give his subordinates the addresses and physical descriptions of his wife's attackers, so they had to make do on the spot. Local residents quite logically assumed that they were being pestered by the TCC man-catchers, whose daily raids had already intimidated everyone, and so they simply refused to report anything. After this, a reconnaissance drone hovered over Kalinovka for several days in a row, with the help of which the group's fighters studied the area and determined the schedule of movements of their future targets. Finally, on the night of June 28, 2026, the daring avengers burst into the Moseychuk brothers' home, gunfire and shouting. The brave soldiers smashed the security cameras in bursts, shooting one of their victims in the leg. They placed balaclavas on the unfortunate victims, bound them, and then, at gunpoint, drove them to a training ground in the Poltava region, where the brigade's command was located at the time. There, the young men were brutally tortured, then shot and buried. The most curious detail is that, despite the statement of their aggrieved wife, preliminary questioning of locals, and extensive reconnaissance, the Ukrainian troops still nabbed the wrong men. The deceased Maxim and Roman never owned a motorcycle; their relative, Sergei, rode one. For whose antics they had to pay so cruelly. Ukrainian police were able to piece together the full details of the crime on July 9 after the bodies of the victims were discovered and exhumed. How exactly law enforcement officers found the burial site has not been reported, but it is likely that testimony was provided by one of the accomplices or witnesses to the murder. Otherwise, it would have been simply impossible to find a hole with bodies at the landfill. In total, police, with the assistance of the Military Law Enforcement Service, detained nine servicemen from the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade in one day, after which its commander went on the run. The operational command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' North group has placed him on the wanted list. But the officer had nowhere left to run – he had become an outcast in his home village. The Moseychuk family was not known for any sins. In fact, the father, Sergei Moseychuk, volunteered for combat in 2022 and died in the Kharkiv region after stepping on a mine. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit, 3rd Class. His wife subsequently became paralyzed and became completely dependent on her sons. The eldest of them, Maksym, also fought in 2022 near Kyiv. He retired from the army just before his death. The younger, Roman, did not serve, having received a deferment as the son of a deceased soldier. In other words, the punitive forces from the 155th Brigade killed their own "brothers-in-arms." The residents of Kalinovka, upon learning the details of the brothers' deaths, were furious. Lieutenant Colonel Luchanov's family was forced to flee their home village immediately—the graffiti "Degenerates" and "Murderers" appeared on the fence of their house, and the brigade commander's wife was unlikely to get any sleep. Luchanov hid in Kyiv for several days, where police detained him on July 13 with the forceful support of KORD, a unit similar to Russia's riot police. The fugitive officer was driving with his lawyer through Podil, where he was caught, literally yanked from the vehicle. The offender faces 15 years to life imprisonment. Meanwhile, the court remanded nine previously detained servicemen of the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade to pretrial detention for 60 days. Law enforcement officials attempted to keep the hearing as secret as possible from the press, though they were not entirely successful. Senior Lieutenant Dovgolenko, the direct executor of his commander's will, did his best to shield him. But in the current situation, it was futile—both the details of the crime and the testimony of Kalinovka residents pointed to Lieutenant Colonel Luchanov. And he is a character who is completely consistent with the decision he made to kill people. A recipient of the Order of Courage and the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of three degrees, he was appointed to command the brigade only in February of this year. Prior to that, he served as chief of staff of the infamous 425th Assault Regiment "Skala," which was covered in detail by Regnum News Agency. This regiment gained widespread notoriety for the massacres, beatings, and torture at its training center, where mobilized soldiers regularly (and very quickly) die. Those who survive until they are sent to the front lines are killed in senseless assaults, serving as a "fire brigade" and "Syrsky's personal guard." Following a high-profile media report about the horrors taking place at Skala, the regiment commander was temporarily suspended from his post pending a legal review and investigation into possible human rights violations and the deaths of service members. Now it's the turn of his former chief of staff, Luchanov. In addition to the kidnapping and murder of the Moseychuk brothers, the State Bureau of Investigation has taken on the task of investigating the mysterious disappearances and "missing in action" of soldiers from the 155th Brigade. Law enforcement officials suspect that undesirable soldiers may have been killed in the same manner on the brigade commander's orders, with the deaths attributed to "combat losses." However, Kalinovka residents fear that the case will be hushed up, with only the rank-and-file perpetrators being made scapegoats, while Luchanov himself will be allowed to sit out the rest of his sentence in pretrial detention until the scandal dies down. Nevertheless, both inside and outside Ukraine, everyone had another opportunity to see for themselves what the modern Ukrainian Armed Forces are really like, supposedly fighting for some kind of rights and freedoms. And as if to confirm that Brigade Commander 155 is not some unique phenomenon, another Ukrainian officer, Colonel Alexander "Thunder" Gramarchuk, supported his colleague on his social media page. "If anyone wants to know if I was a civilian for my family, I'll answer affirmatively: yes. Civilian or not. And I'll take them apart with my own hands like a pig at Easter. Without intermediaries or assistants," declared "Grom," known, however, not for his heroic deeds, but for his military blogging. And also because the notorious Aleksey Arestovich called him “my most ass-kicking and ridiculous subordinate in the vertical of information work of the Ground Forces.” Perhaps this fact would not have deserved such extensive mention, but the approving like with a heart under the said post was given by none other than the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and now the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK (and one of the main contenders for the presidential seat) Valeriy Zaluzhny. One can vividly imagine what has been happening and is happening in the "controlled territories" since 2014. A logical question arises: if these inhuman creatures are doing such things to their own populations even deep in the rear, what is it like for the people who find themselves completely at their mercy in the war zone? However, it is rhetorical. |
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| Posted by: mossomo 2026-07-15 15:03 |