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Former Chechen commander wanted by Ukraine war crimes Leading Russia’s earthquake relief efforts committed last year turkey.
Daniil Martynov was in several locations in Ukraine during the early weeks of last year’s Russian invasion. He is considered close to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and has been featured in several videos on Kadyrov’s official Telegram channel.
Recently he interview From Turkey’s seismic zone to the Russian press after being appointed adviser to Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations last year.
Authorities have continued to race against time free survivor Thousands have died in Turkey and Syria as buildings collapsed from the wreckage of a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck early Monday morning.dozens of countries have sent help Support rescue efforts.
In August last year, the SBU, Ukraine’s security service, said: Alleged Martynov committed a series of war crimes in the town of Volodyanka, north of Kyiv.
The SBU described Martynov as the deputy commander of the Chechen Republic’s National Guard and said it was “responsible for Kadyrov’s personal security detail training.”
SBU is Occupation of Volodyanka Psychiatric Hospital March. According to his orders, “about 500 people were taken hostage (patients, staff and locals), including more than 100 bedridden patients,” he said.
The SBU claimed that the hospital had “become a firing range for the occupiers” and said Martynov was accused of “violating the law and customs of war and mistreated prisoners of war or civilians”.
CNN report About the hospital occupation in March last year.
The director of the psychiatric hospital, Marina Hanitska, told Russian independent media Medusa last year that the Russians had “laid mines all around us. I saw them digging trenches” in the first of March. 1 week.
Medusa quotes from Hanitzka: He said it was Russian Army Colonel Daniil Martynov. He said that if we behave ourselves, we will survive.
Hanitzka tells Medusa that Martynov told her:
‘I asked, what should I be grateful for?
CNN cannot independently confirm that it was Martynov who spoke with the hospital director.
There is no record of Martynov reacting to Ukraine’s allegations. While dismissing the SBU’s accusations last August, Kadyrov said:he works with MES [Ministry of Emergency Situations.]”
and voice recordingKadyrov said.
Martynov was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2020 for “serious human rights violations in Russia.” He was “Kadyrov’s personal security adviser, [and] acted or intended to act, directly or indirectly, for or on behalf of Kadyrov; ”
Several videos posted on Kadyrov’s official Telegram channel last year show Martynov in various locations in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
for one he explained As a member of the Ukrainian Chechen Special Forces.
in where he was saw The town of Popasna in the Luhansk region, completely destroyed by Russian artillery fire.
He also saw In the city of Luhansk, I visited a wounded soldier at an undisclosed location.
CNN has reached out to Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations and Martynov’s role in the ministry, as well as contacting Ukraine’s security services.
