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The Russian Federation continues to violate the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.
This was stated by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova, the Censor informs.No.
"During a monitoring visit to the health care facility where the Ukrainian soldiers released from captivity are being held, they reported on the facts of torture and ill-treatment of the invaders.
Most of the Ukrainian servicemen were captured by the invaders near Mariupol. At first, they were kept in basements and outbuildings. Then they were transferred to the brig, pre-trial detention center in Donetsk and correctional colony No. 120, which are located in the temporarily occupied territory. Later, our soldiers were transferred to pre-trial detention centers in Taganrog and Voronezh.
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During the transfer, Ukrainian soldiers wrapped their eyes with tape, put a bag on their heads, and tied their hands with ropes.
In captivity, Ukrainian servicemen were tortured – threatened with murder, beaten and humiliated," the report says.
According to Denisova, torture was used with particular cruelty against officers and fighters of the "Azov".
"During interrogations, Ukrainian prisoners of war were put on their knees, beaten with the butt of a machine gun on their toes and open wounds, used pliers, threw a noose around their necks and strangled. In addition, they were electrocuted, beaten with a mallet and kicked.
Ukrainian servicemen reported that the rashists [Russian fascist] injected them with unknown drugs with the letter "M", after which they lost consciousness and lost their memory.
The invaders forced Ukrainian soldiers to learn the poem "forgive us, native Russians", the national anthem of the Russian Federation, the history of the creation of the coat of arms and flag of the Russian Federation, otherwise they used torture and torture.
Ukrainian women prisoners of war who were held in the Donetsk pre – trial detention center said that there were at least 17-20 of them in cells designed for 2-3 people. The women were deprived of hygiene products and the opportunity to wash. Psychological pressure was exerted on them - Ukrainian captured men were brutally beaten in front of their eyes. Captives were also forced to perform sexual acts.
Vital medical care was not provided to the wounded Ukrainian servicemen. The doctor examined them only before moving them to a prisoner-of-war camp in Sevastopol, where representatives of the ICRC provided assistance.
Ukrainians were not given water, only 1.5 liters for 30-40 people, restricted in nutrition – in the territory of the Ordo, the daily diet consisted of a piece of bread and lard. Sometimes giving meat rashists mocked and said that it was "human".
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Ukrainian servicemen were deprived of the opportunity to contact their relatives. The identity cards of the prisoner of war for informing his family of the ICRC Central Investigation Agency, provided for in Article 70 of the 1949 Geneva Convention, which must be sent immediately after capture, were filled out only immediately before the exchange.
By these criminal actions, the Russian Federation violated the rights of prisoners of War guaranteed by the provisions of the Articles 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24-27, 29-31, 46, 48, 69-71 the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war," Denisova said.
She appealed to the UN Commission for the investigation of human rights violations during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine to take into account new facts of violations. Source: https://censor.net/ua/n3344457