“A 49-year-old owner of a war zone mobile hospital in
eastern Ukraine has disclosed that he ordered his
doctors to “castrate captured Russian troops” because
they are “cockroaches, not people”.
Gennadiy Druzenko, was forced to apologize after his
interview with the Ukraine-24 channel about Russian
military prisoners of war and claimed that he had
always been a “great humanist” but changed his
beliefs when it came to the Russians.
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He said: “‘I have always been a great humanist and
said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an
enemy but a patient.
‘But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all
[captured Russian] men, because they are
cockroaches, not people.”
Druzenko set up the first First Voluntary Mobile
Hospital which sends out civilian doctors and nurses in
the conflict zone close to the separatist republics in
eastern Ukraine.
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He also told famous Russian TV host Yevgeny
Kiselyov: “Believe, all doctors who saved the patients
– Russians will die here. Die in large numbers.
“Those who [come here] will remember their nightmare
on Ukrainian soil.
“Like the Germans remember Stalingrad.”
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a
criminal case into the comments made by Druzenko,
which meant that he could face trial under Russian
law.
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But the medic has since apologized on social media
for his comments and claimed that the hospital “does
not castrate anyone and is not going to”.
He added that his words came from “emotions”.
In a statement on the hospital’s website, they said
Druzenko “made an emotional statement about the
sterilization of the invaders’ and claimed it was
‘prompted by threats against Gennady and his family
personally”.