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We planned our action as peaceful, we didn't have any weapons
and when we realized that it is the ambush
when from the left side of Regional State Administration ran out a crowd of Berkut [special police forces]
about a hundred people
and they ran to us with wild cries
We decided to move away to the right side of the Authority
but there they were waiting for us already
there were so called titushky [thugs hired by the authorities] sitting in cars
Men there had pretty strong constitution and were of middle age
Dressed in sportswear, in leather clothing
On the right hand, we noticed, they wore yellow ribbons
That means that they camouflage themselves as our self-defense forces
and in order to distinguish between us themselves, they wore such ribbons
When I ran past these cars, I saw as one of our guys was knocked down by two of such attackers
They had bits and they began to beat him
He tried to defend against them. I ran closer to stand up for him and pulled one of the titushko over myself
Then, later, there was such a battle among us, it cannot be called a fight
but really the second one also switched to me, and then the third came closer and I was hit to the head and then I fainted
After then, Berkut ran closer and they gave me to them
Berkut beat me with their batons when I was lying. How many hits there were?.. I think probably from 20 to 30
I was already in the conscious state, so I felt them good
Actually, the difference in beating me by them was...
in that that they did not beat me to the head as it was already injured
He beat me all over my body, where he could reach. I defended...
and often he inflicted blows right in the same place, that is, to break for sure
After that, Berkut dragged us...
there have been several such victims...
I think... about nine people according to rollcall...
they did it in the paddy...
But first they dragged us into the Berkut's bus and laid us to the floor
Meanwhile they also brutally beaten us and jumped down
That is, they made jumps over our bodies to break ribs or something
I was a little lucky there because they put another person on top of me
That is, I was lying under someone, and they jumped over him
Many people begged not to be beaten and so on
There was a lot of blood over the floor... This I remember well, the floor was slippery with blood
Then, after we were moved to the paddy
In the paddy the soldiers of internal troops have led
They treated us less harshly. They did not beat anybody
but very severely packed our there
There were small cells designed for one person
but they packed in three
And there was an older man who suffered a lot
He is sick with diabetes, he was breathing very heavily
and asked to leave, because he could die: "Let me out, because I could die"
We stood there three
The two stood and this older man was sitting
He asked to be freed very much, but nobody considered it
Finally, we who were with him also started to ask to release him, those older man
And next to me was a reporter from a Belarusian channel, as I recall, Byelsat
he showed his card and he was finally freed from this paddy
But then we met in the hospital, because he had a wound on his head that was sewed up
Well, finally, thank God
it can happen to the best that I have had severe damage
and I was taken by an ambulance from the Sosnivsky district police department
With two more people
I then was able to get away from the hospital
because the police came to me straight to the hospital
Two police officers watched on the storey
doctor would not let them to me, said I was in a serious condition
And two more watched at the entrance
From there my friends kidnapped me, you can say so