05/04/2022 13:18

Mass cases of torture of civilians are recorded in the territories liberated from the racist occupiers

In the Kyiv region, the «Prolisok children's camp» housed the base of a racist army unit for three weeks.  Five corpses of men with their hands tied behind their backs were found in the basement of the building.  They were tortured and then killed in cold blood.  One of the victims had his skull crushed with butt blows with special hardness.  Others were shot in the back of the head or chest.

In the village of Viktorivka in the Chernihiv region, which has been under occupation for 25 days, racists held people hostage in the basement, from the elderly to newborns. Residents were escorted to collect at least a bucket of water.

No medication was given, even to those whose lives depended on certain medications.  A man with asthma has died.  Russian militants ordered the hostages to bury the body next to them in the woods.

Due to inhumane living conditions and infections brought by the occupiers, a number of diseases began, including chickenpox.

At least three tortured peaceful Ukrainians have already been found in the Konotop district of Sumy region on the sites of former enemy camps.

Torture and killing of civilians is a crime against humanity and a war crime under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, for which racists are awaited by an international military tribunal.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these war crimes and crimes against humanity and human rights in Ukraine.