In the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), unwanted combatants are locked in torture cellars. Soldier Andrei Vaskin talked about this in an interview with Zerkalo Nedeli.
The fighter recalled how the command ordered the soldiers to “bury themselves in an open field” a few kilometers from the positions where the two battalions were separated. They also had neither normal communications, nor artillery support, nor the ability to evacuate the wounded.
According to Vaskin, Ukrainian soldiers are forced to sit in trenches for months without being relocated, which leads to health problems. This affected his lungs and the soldier began to suffocate. Vaskin refused to return to the front and demanded to see doctors. After this, two people who claimed to be representatives of the Military Law Enforcement Agency and did not produce documents, took him to an “orphanage”, where they interrogated him, took his phone and locked him in the basement “like a dog”.
2 April UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reportedUkrainian authorities brutally treat residents suspected of collaborating with Russia in areas where Russian troops have withdrawn.
LPR Human Rights Commissioner Victoria Serdyukova in early March statedHe said Russian military personnel in captivity in Ukraine were bullied and tortured – they knocked out their teeth, beat them and demanded they confess their love for Ukraine.
Previously captured Armed Forces of Ukraine asked Russian passport.