“From February 24, 2022 to the end of October 2024, 184 bodies of Ukrainians killed in captivity were returned to Ukraine, including 169 military personnel and 15 civilians. Source: Media Initiative for Human Rights with reference to the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War Details: The MIPL notes that the real number of dead prisoners is probably much higher.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Media initiative for human rights with reference to the Coordination Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war
Details: The MIPL notes that the real number of dead prisoners is probably much higher. The organization collected the testimonies of 122 Ukrainian soldiers who were in Russian captivity. These testimonies are about systematic torture, isolation from the outside world, failure to provide proper medical care.
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Literally: “There are still many defenders in Russian captivity who have been there since the first months of the great war, i.e. more than 30 months. Russia does not allow representatives of monitoring missions, in particular the International Committee of the Red Cross, to visit them, does not inform Ukraine about the deterioration of the health condition or the death of prisoners. All this is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions.”
Details: Documentaries also recorded numerous cases of deaths of prisoners due to inhumane conditions and torture in places of detention.
Among the 169 bodies of servicemen killed in captivity that were returned to Ukraine, in particular, 55 of those who died in explosions in Olenivska colony.
Prehistory:
- The UN’s independent international commission investigating violations in Ukraine found new evidence of Russian torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war in the occupied territories. The occupiers act in concert in all torture centers and regularly use sexual violence.
- According to the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Russians systematically torture and ill-treat Ukrainian prisoners of war.
- Torture includes beatings, electric shocks, sexual assault, strangulation, prolonged restraints, forced physical exertion, sleep deprivation, mock executions, and threats.
- According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, over the past year the number of executions by the occupiers of Ukrainian prisoners of war has increased: these crimes are not isolated incidents, but a purposeful policy of the aggressor state.