The monitoring mission says that in Ukraine it has direct access to captured Russians, unlike Russia.
The UN says more than 95% of Ukrainian military personnel were tortured in Russian captivity. The organization simultaneously notes that in Ukraine, prison camps comply with the standards of humanitarian law. This was said by the head of the UN monitoring mission for human rights in Ukraine, Danielle Bell, on the air of the Dutch television channel NOS.
“The prisoners were tortured during their first interrogation. They were beaten with metal rods and sticks, stripped, and given severe electric shocks. It was horrible. It was the worst thing I have seen in my 20-year career in visiting prisoners on behalf of the U.N. This happened to more than 95% of prisoners of war in Ukraine.
According to him, information about the time in captivity of Ukrainian prisoners of war is often collected in conversations after their return.
While the monitoring mission has direct access to Russian prisoners of war and can directly inspect the detention area.
“The Ukrainian authorities give us access to camps and temporary prisons for prisoners of war. In the first days there were some problems there, but in the last 1.5 years we have observed the conditions of detention which follows the standards of the humanitarian law of war,” the head of the monitoring mission stressed.
As we have already written, the Ukrainian prisoner of war Alexander Ishchenko, who served as a driver in the regiment Azov, died in a pre-trial detention center in Russian Rostov-on-Don.
Source: korrespondent
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