a n owner of a war zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine has revealed that he instructed his doctors to “castrate captured Russian soldiers” because they are “cockroaches, not people”. Gennadiy Druzenko, 49, was forced to apologise 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. 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.”

ads 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. 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.

ads But the medic has since apologised 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 sterilisation of the invaders’ and claimed it was ‘prompted by threats against Gennady and his family personally”.

ads In other news, Ukrainian troops have deployed a new anti-tank weapon that they received from Germany which can reportedly destroy any Russian tank. The Panzerfaust 3-IT anti-tank weapon was first used between 1978 and 1985 after having been ordered by West Germany in order to pierce through Soviet armour. In a picture posted on Reddit, a Ukrainian soldier is seen holding the massive weapon, seemingly ready to use it against any Russian invaders it comes across. In what seems to be a cruel twist of irony, the original Panzerfaust was used in World War Two by the Germans against the Soviets and now its successor is being used against the Russians by the Ukrainians.