The head of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), Danielle Bell, said that russia tortured 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) held in russian prisons.
This is reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Thus, in an interview with the Dutch TV channel NOS, Bell stated that the russian authorities torture Ukrainian prisoners of war, starting from the first interrogations, and characterized the russian practice of torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war as "widespread and systematic." According to her, the russian federation tortured 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Bell emphasized that the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war is a war crime. Torture of prisoners of war is a violation of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
It is recalled that on August 7, the deputy commander of the Ukrainian brigade reported that the russian authorities tortured and "brutally" killed a Ukrainian prisoner of war, who served in his brigade, in a pretrial detention center in the Rostov Oblast.
"Bell's statements and previous reports by the HRMMU on russia's violations of the rights of ukrainian prisoners of war are consistent with ISW's long-standing assessments of russia's systematic violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in occupied Ukraine and in relation to Ukrainian prisoners of war," the analysts added.
It will be recalled that 55-year-old Oleksandr Ishchenko, a captured serviceman of the Azov regiment, died in Rostov-on-Don, russia. He was beaten to death. Before that, he tried to commit suicide due to constant beatings and abuse of the guards.
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