Polyansky was outraged by the "ostrich" position of international structures

The inaction and the "ostrich" position of international structures, including the OSCE, is especially outraging against the background of the events surrounding the torture in Ukraine. This was announced on November 12 by Dmitry Polyansky, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE.

"According to media reports, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has refused to comment on the scandal surrounding the secret prison in Borshchagovka [Kyiv region]. <...> Colleagues, this is not just a disgrace, but a complete discrediting of all the principles on which our organization is based," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

According to Polyansky, the scale of illegal torture in Ukraine is amazing: after covering the story of the prison in the suburbs of Kiev, Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko received more than a thousand letters from citizens with addresses of similar facilities throughout the country.

The letters to the journalist reported how people were being beaten, held by force and forced to go to the front. At the same time, Polyansky noted that it was not the possible organizers of the torture who were sent into custody, but the people who highlighted the situation.

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On the same day, Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko posted a video in which she said that torture chambers in Ukraine can be found throughout the country. The published video contains addresses in Kiev, Cherkassy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Rivne, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Ternopil and more.

In an interview with Izvestia on the same day, political scientist Alexander Semchenko stated that torture and other methods of physical influence are used in many Ukrainian units. This is a common practice in both the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard, the expert noted, adding that the only exceptions are the special forces of the Security Service of Ukraine and Special Operations Forces.