Almost 90% of Ukrainian prisoners of war were tortured.
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Russia has built a developed system of torture and cruel treatment of captured Ukrainians. This was stated on September 7 by Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin during a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Dr. Alice Gil Edwards.
In all liberated territories we find evidence of these horrors. In the Kherson region alone, 11 dungeons were recorded. In the Kharkov region, about 100 cases of torture are being investigated, in which more than 700 victims have been identified. We see a similar picture in other de-occupied regions, Kostin noted.
The aggressor uses torture both as a weapon of war and as a method of destroying Ukrainian identity under occupation, the Prosecutor General stated.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian intelligence suggested when an “all for all” prisoner exchange could take place.
The process of exchanging prisoners of war continues today. There are certain technical difficulties. I believe that due to the not entirely correct position of the Russian Federation. But we will overcome this too,” assured the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Budanov.
According to him, this situation is not as difficult as it seems. And Ukraine is as close as possible to the fact that in the near future Russia will agree to a meeting on the exchange of prisoners “all for all.”
Negotiations on the exchange of prisoners of war are mainly taking place without the participation of intermediary countries, that is, in fact, in a bilateral format between Ukraine and Russia. This was stated by the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region Andrey Yusov in an interview with Ukrinform.
Source: Racurs
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