They gave very little food and water.
terrible conditions of detention of Ukrainian prisoners of war. During the briefing, he noted that our defenders were beaten with rubber batons, forced to sleep on cold concrete and deprived of normal means of subsistence – toilet paper, soap, toothbrushes and paste.
“This was not an exception. , but as a general practice,” Lubinets summarized about sleeping on concrete, adding that Ukrainians were not given mattresses or blankets.
He notes that the places where our citizens were kept were not suitable for such a number of prisoners.
The commissioner said that the usual “procedure” for Russian prisoners was applied to the Ukrainian defenders – men and women were “passed through the formation, where they were beaten with rubber batons.” Moreover, they beat with such force that these clubs broke, after which the Ukrainians were already beaten with wooden sticks.
Another way of bullying is “rods down”, when a person has to stand with his head down in the middle of the square or yard. Those who violated the order were beaten.
The Commissioner also spoke about the fact that the Ukrainian prisoners were given very little food and water. A few days ago, the head of the “Azov” patronage service, Olena Tolkachova, said that almost all 215 people who returned from Russian captivity on September 21 have extreme degree of anorexia.
“It all started with the procedure of capture. It is clear that some legal aspects such as recognition as prisoners of war, combatant status did not happen,” the ombudsman said.
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We remind you that on the evening of September 21 in the Chernihiv region a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war took place. Home 215 Ukrainian soldiers returned, including defenders of “Azovstal”. Among them are also commanders of the Mariupol garrison– Denys Prokopenko (call sign “Radis”), Svyatoslav Palamar and Serhiy Volynskyi. All of them will be in Turkey under the personal protection of President Recep Erdogan until the end of the war against Ukraine.
As part of a large-scale exchange, Ukraine also managed to free ten foreigners. Among them are citizens of Morocco, USA, Great Britain, Sweden and Croatia. Some of them were “sentenced” by the occupiers to the death penalty. These are the British Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as the Moroccan Saadoun Brahim.
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