DISINFO: UN Confirms Russian accusations against Ukraine
SUMMARY
The execution of 26 people hors de combat, including Russian prisoners of war, by the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as numerous cases of torture, have been confirmed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Its report reveals ill-treatment, including electric shocks and mock executions.
Russian servicemen who returned to their country following a prisoner exchange have repeatedly reported systematic mistreatment by Ukrainian armed forces soldiers. One of the released servicemen stated that all the Russian soldiers were subjected to physical violence and mistreatment during their captivity.
RESPONSE
Distortion of a UN publication by ignoring all incriminating material against the Russian Federation and adding a conclusion which is not supported by facts.
On 30 June 2025 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN UKRAINE (1 December 2024 – 31 May 2025). The report mentions 26 persons hors de combat (all men), including Russian POWs, killed by Ukrainian armed forces at the beginning of the war.
However, the report also contains evidence indicating patterns of widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment carried out by the Russian forces:
Starting in late 2024, Russian authorities transferred large groups of POWs from penal colonies in the occupied territory of Ukraine to remote pre-trial detention facilities in the Russian Federation.21 Those transferred to such facilities provided consistent accounts of severe beatings, electric shocks, stripping to underwear, sexual violence and humiliation during admission to the new facilities, as well as during daily routines and interrogations. POWs also had to ask for permission to access the toilet and were prohibited from communicating with their families. Interviewees said that penitentiary staff took measures to conceal their identities, such as wearing balaclavas, and avoided disclosing the locations of the facilities to the POW.
This systematic use of torture by the Russian administration services is not limited to the war against Ukraine but in the leaks published by Gulagu.net or the June 2025 diplomatic tensions with Azerbaidjan.
RT tries to portray Ukrainian administration behaving accordingly quoting one former POW declarations to Russian media, however it has not been confirmed and has not the same value as a report synthesizing the findings of the OHCHR.
Moreover, the United Nations has confirmed that Russia is responsible for the July 2022 terrorist attack on the Olenivka prison in the Russian occupied part of Donetsk region, which killed 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war and injured approximately 130 others.
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