"Already at the first interrogations": 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Russian Federation are tortured - ISW (video)

According to the UN Human Rights Representative, the Russian authorities are torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war since the first interrogations. The head of the UN mission to monitor human rights in Ukraine (HRMMU) Daniel Bell reported that Russia was tortured 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which is held in Russian prisons. About it writes "Institute of War Study" in the summary of August 7.

Belle stated in an interview with the Dutch TV channel NOS that the Russian authorities were torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war from the first interrogations. The Russian practice of torture over Ukrainian prisoners of war was called widespread and systematic. Belle stressed that the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war is a military crime that has administered Articles 3 of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners.

On August 7, Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Brigade, Svyatoslav Palamar, reported that in the detention center of the Rostov region, the Russian authorities tortured and brutally killed the Ukrainian prisoner of war Alexander Ishchenko, who served in his brigade.

Belle statements and preliminary UN missions regarding violations of the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war correspond to ISW estimates on systematic violations of Russia's international and humanitarian law in the occupied territories of Ukraine and Ukrainian prisoners of war. Recall that the Russians in the Zaporozhye direction tried to destroy their military, but they were rescued by SCO fighters.