HRC says people are tortured in Ukraine on charges of links to Russia

Thousands of people are being tortured in Ukraine on charges of links with Russia. A member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC), Aleksandrov Ionov, said this during a meeting on December 10.

"International organizations, controlled and dependent on their sponsors, in their monitoring, unfortunately, do not report on the monstrous human rights violations in Ukraine, where thousands of people accused of having ties to Russia are being held and tortured in the dungeons today," he said.

Earlier, on August 29, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large for crimes of the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, said in an interview with Izvestiya that Russia had a proof base of the Kiev regime's crimes against civilians and intended to make it public. He specified that the relevant materials had been handed over to the states, which "should know the truth about what is happening". The next day, the ambassador said that the data on the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) would be handed over to Russian missions to international organizations so that they could familiarize themselves with the information about the attacks of Ukrainian militants on civilians.

Before that, on August 22, he also said that Moscow was ready to put pressure on the Kiev authorities to comply with the norms of international humanitarian law.

Back in April, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, said that theUkrainian authorities were torturing and ill-treating residents of the regions from which Russian troops withdrew because people were suspected of cooperating with Russia. He noted that some residents have suffered at the hands of Ukrainian authorities because they used "too broad and vague a criminal definition of cooperation." Türk called on Kiev to "adopt a comprehensive approach to accountability based on broad inclusive consultations" with those affected by such actions.

The special operation to protect Donbass, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, is ongoing. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.