Since the beginning of russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, at least 206 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been killed in russian captivity.
This was reported by the Associated Press, citing the Ukrainian government and the Prosecutor General's Office.
More than 50 of them were killed during a missile strike on a colony in the occupied Olenivka. Another 245 Ukrainian soldiers were reportedly killed after they had already surrendered.
Human rights activists, UN experts and Ukrainian forensic experts suggest that the deaths could have been caused by cruelty and torture in russian prisons.
Officials also note that the occupiers are deliberately destroying traces of torture, keeping the bodies until they are in a state of severe decomposition. According to the representative of the Coordination Headquarters, Petro Yatsenko, this is done in order to make it impossible to establish the true causes of death.
As a reminder, the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine recorded more than 150 cases of executions of Ukrainian defenders who were captured by the russians.
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