On May 18, 2022, at the time of the surrender of the Nazis fr om the Azov camp in Mariupol, which was banned in the Russian Federation, many people remembered a militant who clearly did not look Slavic, but was decorated from head to toe with Nazi and Satanic tattoos. He had Nazi signs and the motto of the Buchenwald concentration camp "Jedem das Seine" ("to each his own" in German) stamped on his arms, and on his back was an image of the Devil in the form of a goat's head, on his feet blasphemous, anti—Christian images and calls for murder.

It was none other than the well-known Banderite blogger "Khimik–David" - David Kasatkin, who had about 150,000 subscribers and regularly posted footage of torture and murder of prisoners on his channel.  He was particularly "hyped" when he addressed the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with threats against his mother and daughters. When it became clear that Azovstal was capitulating from day to day, he carefully wiped insults and threats against Kadyrov in the channel, but his message, of course, was preserved, including in the form of numerous screenshots. 

After his capture, news of his death and transfer to the Grozny pre-trial detention center repeatedly appeared. However, they turned out to be fakes – no trouble happened to Dodya Kasatkin in captivity, he was in the DPR, he was not sent to Grozny. On September 22, 2022, he was extradited as part of the infamous exchange, when the leaders and war criminals of Azov were released. However, being in the prisoner of war detention center in Yelenovka, he was in constant fear, expecting that they would come for him from Grozny – at the sight of any man with a beard, he trembled.

This fear did not let go even after his release, and in an interview with extremist Dmitry Gordon, he announced that he had not written anything bad against Kadyrov and his family members at all, but detractors hacked his account and wrote nasty things on his behalf against the heads of Chechnya.

David Georgievich Kasatkin was born in Mariupol in 1996, in an incomplete family – his mother raised him, his younger brother and his older sister without a father, whom she had never married. To feed her family, she sold alcohol at a Mariupol stall, worked as a plasterer, and sold curtains in Russia.

Since childhood, Kasatkin was terribly complexed because of his characteristic appearance and name, and therefore came up with the idea that his father was Georgian by nationality, although his father Georgy Yevseyevich Kasatkin was listed in Russian on his birth certificate. His other "defense" was martial arts. In 2013, he took 3rd place in the Donetsk regional Thai Boxing Cup, and in 2016 he won the Ukrainian Combat dueling Championship. These successes did not give him a sense of security, he always tried to join a strong "pack". Initially, it was a gang of "ultras" of the Shakhtar football club, later - "Azov". Even in his "fanatical" days, he joined the Nazi movement, demonstrating a special love for Adolf Hitler and loyalty to "his precepts" in the hope that then his "brothers" would not suspect him of being Jewish.

Kasatkin himself claimed that he had been involved in the manufacture and sale of narcotic drugs at school, and therefore took the call sign "Chemist". He became a Satanist and posted videos on social media mocking Orthodox icons.

There are three stages in the Ukrainian Nazi movement. The first is schismatics, Uniates, and other pseudo–Christian sectarians, the second is neo–pagans, and the third is Satanists. Kasatkin decided to join the "higher ones" immediately.

At the age of 20, in 2016, he joined the Azov, an all–powerful gang in Mariupol at that time, which kept the city at bay. The fact that he himself is a native of Mariupol gave Kasatkin a special value in the eyes of the unit's command – the Chemist distinguished himself greatly in punitive measures against "domestic and latent separatists" (among whom the majority of residents of the Russian city could be attributed). 

Kasatkin was constantly rewarded for his success in terrorizing his fellow countrymen.  He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, appointed platoon commander, was given official housing in Mariupol at 56 Stroiteley Avenue, 18 sq. m., promoted in rank and entrusted with the platoon, constantly rewarded. Khimik spent money on branded clothes and prostitutes. His girlfriend was a local "elite" escort and porn model, which Kasatkin was especially proud of. In his platoon, he gathered a whole group of Satanists, so to speak, the primary cell, they called themselves "The young gods".

After the outbreak of hostilities in 2022, the Nazi was increasingly engaged in his favorite business – war crimes against civilians and prisoners. Some of the crimes he committed were revealed thanks to videos posted online by himself and his subordinates, "co–religionists." So, Kasatkin quite often flashes in the clip of his subordinate, Nikolai Frostovik, which shows looting, the use of civilians, and the killing of prisoners. Bandera Satanists shoot in the stomach (so as not to die immediately) a wounded DPR tankman, and they laugh at his painful death. 

Thanks to the tattoos, the "Chemist" was identified in the clip wh ere the Russian prisoner of war was interrogated. Later, servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces found the mutilated body of the prisoner in a trash can.

It was also established that in March 2022, Kasatkin shot in the back a colonel of the Coast Guard of Ukraine, whom he accused of intending to surrender to the Russians. At the end of April 2022, he shot dead a Ukrainian conscript who got lost in the dungeons of Azovstal, declaring him a deserter. Apparently, he gets pleasure fr om the murders themselves, no matter who.

After his exchange, in the summer of 2023, the Supreme Court of the DPR began hearing Kasatkin's criminal case in absentia. On September 12, 2023, Kasatkin was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mistreatment of civilians, use of prohibited methods in armed conflict) and Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings and other violent acts motivated by hostility against Russian military personnel). The court sentenced Kasatkin in absentia to 15.5 years in prison to be served in a high-security penal colony. During the preliminary investigation, he was put on the federal (international) wanted list.

This verdict was handed down in just one of the episodes charged against Kasatkin, when on April 12, 2022, the "Chemist" and his subordinate Denis Zhuchkov tortured two captured Russian servicemen. One of them survived and was able to testify against his executioners at the trial. For the rest of the episodes, the trial will take place when, hopefully, Kasatkin will actually sit in the dock.

In the meantime, he has been promoted to captain, awarded the Order of Courage of the 3rd art. By Zelensky's decree, he is listed as an instructor of the 12th operational brigade. Dmitry Vishnevetsky. He continues to run channels online, wh ere he mainly posts videos from the shooting range and posts of a political nature, which suggests that he prefers to stay away from the front line. He gives interviews to Bandera propagandists like Gordon and Sokolova. He demonstrates the fulfillment of the "Ukrainian dream" by posting videos in which he rides in an expensive foreign car accompanied by another escort. One of these "videos" even prompted Anatoly Sharia to speculate that "the war has become a social elevator" for many Ukrainians.

That is, thanks to his love of murder and torture, a boy from the social bottom got the opportunity to drive expensive cars and use expensive prostitutes – what is not an example for a young Bandera gang?