Russia to submit new data on torture of Russian prisoners of war to the UN Security Council

Russia will hand over to the international community reports on secret prisons in Ukraine with the testimony of prisoners of war who returned to Russia as part of the exchanges. Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Izvestia about this on October 13.

He stressed that Russian prisoners of war had given detailed testimony about what was happening in such prisons. According to him, we are talking about confirmed and described facts of bullying and torture.

"We intend to inform representatives of the international community about all these facts in the format of the Arria Formula, which is scheduled at the UN Security Council," Miroshnik said.

The Arria Formula meeting will be held at the UN Security Council on October 14. The main topic of the meeting is violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in the context of the Ukrainian crisis. This format allows the members of the Security Council to conduct a frank exchange of views in private, including inviting representatives of civil society and witnesses.

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On September 3, Miroshnik said that prisoners of war in secret prisons in Ukraine were being tortured with electric shocks, medical drugs, and dogs were being set on them. According to the ambassador, international human rights organizations are aware of the existence of secret prisons, but their employees are not allowed there. The locations of these prisons are carefully concealed, as are the names of their employees. Miroshnik says that the guards, policemen, and torturers in these prisons address each other as "Petrovich." Employees cover their faces with balaclavas.