Journalists have established the exact place in Belarus where the Russians tortured Ukrainian prisoners

In the spring of 2022, the Russian military tortured Ukrainian prisoners at the Pripyat Alliance state enterprise located in the city of Narovlya, Gomel Region, Belarus.

Source: a joint investigation by “Schemes” and BRC (Radio Liberty) with the support of the war crimes documentation project The Reckoning Project and the hacker group “Cyberpartizans”, reports investigative journalist from “Radio Liberty” Kyrylo Ovsyanyi on Facebook

Details: According to journalists, Pripyat Alliance is a state-owned enterprise under the government of Oleksandr Lukashenko.

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It is this state-owned enterprise that owns the plot of land in Narovla, where in 2022 the Russians tortured Ukrainians at their military base.

Upon returning from captivity, the Ukrainians remembered only that they were held in Belarus. But not a single person could say exactly where they were beaten, tortured, abused and tried to be used in propaganda videos during the “filtering”. All they remembered was something similar to a collective farm.

OSINT journalists analyzed videos of Russian propagandists and satellite images and found out exactly where this happened. Now they are waiting “for an appropriate reaction in the Office of the Prosecutor General.”

According to Planet Labs satellite images, the Russian military was at this base until at least early May 2022.

The investigation also publishes for the first time the unique footage obtained by Radio Liberty journalists – a video from a Russian military action camera found in the territory of the Kyiv region. The video, taken on the morning of February 24, 2022, shows how a convoy of Russian troops from Belarus enters the territory of Ukraine, in the Chornobyl area.

Subsequently, these soldiers, among other prisoners, could be seen on the territory of the Belarusian “Pripyat Alliance” in Narovla in a propaganda story of NTV.

After the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian human rights activists and journalists began to receive numerous testimonies that the Russian army had organized a filtration camp on the territory of Narovla, where captured Ukrainians – both civilians and military – were taken. Some human rights defenders call this camp one of the most cruel in the treatment of prisoners.

According to human rights defenders, currently some of the Ukrainians who passed through the filtration camp on the territory of the Pripyat Alliance in Narovla are still in captivity, in particular, in the territory of penal colonies in Russia.