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[Regnum] The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirms dozens of cases of killings and torture of unarmed people and captured servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces by Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, starting in February 2022. Such data is presented in the report of the Office on the human rights situation in Ukraine, published on June 30.
“OHCHR has confirmed the execution of 26 persons incapacitated for combat (all males), including Russian prisoners of war, by the Ukrainian Armed Forces since February 2022,” the document says.
Most of the incidents reported were recorded in 2022 and early 2023, with one incident occurring in late 2024.
The department also reported cases of torture of prisoners of war by Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. 59 of the 95 prisoners of war interviewed reported torture and ill-treatment. The methods used during torture included beatings with sticks and plastic tubes, electric shocks, dog attacks, death threats, sexual violence, mock executions, and humiliation.
In addition, OHCHR identified two internment sites near Kyiv where prisoners of war were held incommunicado for over a year. In at least one of these sites, they were subjected to beatings.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian fighters who returned from Ukrainian captivity on June 26 in accordance with the Istanbul agreements reported that they were subjected to torture and abuse by the Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. They reported, among other things, torture in the electric chair and abuse by Ukrainian Armed Forces medics.
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