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Ukrainian defense intelligence provided CNN with transcripts of audio intercepts from the May incident, revealing a Russian commander explicitly ordering his subordinates to kill surrendering Ukrainian soldiers. This evidence suggests that such actions may be endorsed by Russian military leadership.

Representatives of the ICC have inspected torture cellars set up by the Russian army in Kharkiv Region

The evidence collected, reports the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, confirms that the detainees were subjected to torture, as well as physical, psychological and sexual abuse.

"People were barely fed and given only technical water to drink. Teeth were filed down, wrists of hands were tied and with the help of a crane with a metal hook people's bodies were lifted into the air, fingernails were torn out, electric current was applied through wires tied to different parts of the body, they were beaten with rubber truncheons,” the report said.

A total of 25 such places were found in Kharkiv region.

Ukrainian soldier Ostap Shved witnessed the Russian terror attack on Olenivka prison in August 2022, where Ukrainian POWs were held and left to die. This summary highlights the brutal conditions. Ostap was exchanged on May 6, 2023—the last time Azov soldiers were swapped.

"The only time I saw representatives of the Red Cross when we got on the bus after evacuating from Azovstal, and they gave us forms to fill out."

"The explosion happened between 10:30 p.m. and midnight. I was lying with my head facing the epicenter, and as soon as I heard the detonation, I jumped down from the second floor. Then I heard the second explosion, and everything caught fire...

...There were a lot of screams. The smell of burning human flesh... I better not describe the details."

"Olenivka: a fragment hit my hand, and eight fragments hit my leg. I started pulling the guys out through a window that was blown out by the shockwave. One of my comrades had his bicep torn off."

"We also pulled out the bodies we could. Just to make sure they didn’t burn."

"We were outside, and I saw a wounded comrade with a hole in his chest. I was looking for something to cover the wound, found some bag near the trash, and there was a cap from oil inside. I put one on top of the other and told him to hold it tight."

"There was no administration. The guards who were supposed to be watching us were gone. We dragged the wounded to the exit ourselves. I approached with my hands raised, asking for help, and they threw a stun grenade at us and fired warning shots."

"We asked to pull the wounded to the fence to help them under the lights, and they eventually allowed it and gave us only one first aid kit. There was one Esmarch tourniquet and one ipp [Israeli personal bandage].

...I tore the bandage in half and put it on the amputated leg of one guy and on the amputated arm of another."

"Then we started taking off whatever we had—our clothes—and used them as makeshift tourniquets. I was only in my underwear and had nothing left to take off."

"I was covered in blood and didn’t even notice my own injury. I wrapped my hand with a piece of a T-shirt and continued."

"We sorted all the wounded. The most serious ones were on the left side near the entrance, the moderately wounded on the right, and the lightly wounded a bit further away."

"We had a few medics including me, and a couple of paramedics for the entire barracks, and we helped each other."

"I approached a guy whose leg was badly torn, wrapped it with a piece of a T-shirt, and snapped off a tree branch. I twisted it to create pressure and told his friends to hold it, as he was starting to pass out from blood loss."

"By 4 a.m., we had only received a few bottles of water and some torn sheets."

"But there was another barrack with captured medics who weren’t allowed to help us. They were begging to be let out, and they were only allowed to help around 4-5 a.m. [The explosions happened between 10:30 p.m. and midnight].

By that time, some of the guys had bled out and died."

"There’s a medical unit and firefighters on the colony grounds, but they didn’t want to help. They were waiting for us to bleed out. They were waiting for more of us to die."

"There were ambulances on the grounds, but all the injured were loaded into a truck. When there wasn’t enough room, they told us to stack people on top of each other. Seventy-six people were taken to the hospital."

"Seventy-five were left behind and crammed into two cells. They put 35 of us in a cell meant for six. Almost all of us had shrapnel wounds in our arms, legs, heads, and burns. We spent about a month like that."

"On the fifth day, they let our medics, who were also prisoners, help us. They were given a few bandages and some green antiseptic with iodine."

"We were all covered in blood and fiberglass. The barracks where we slept were insulated with fiberglass, and it fell on us during the explosions. The girls [female medics who were also prisoners] asked if we could take a shower."

"From time to time, the doors would open, and they would shout at us, 'Are you pigs still alive? Haven’t you died yet?'"

"We couldn’t sleep in such a small cell. You could only lie on your side because there wasn’t enough room. It was August, it was hot, and they gave us very little water. We had 11 liters of water a day, and we had to use it to clean our wounds as well."

"Now, I seek revenge for the dishonor and shame I suffered in captivity. As a medic, I continue to help the guys, I train, and from time to time, I go on combat missions."

"The Red Cross never showed up, neither in Olenivka nor in Taganrog. And even after we were released, they didn’t appear. I hope that if we keep telling them what we went through, they will eventually start to act."

"I think we must demand from international bodies that more of our guys be included in exchanges. And we need to shed light on what’s happening in captivity."

Ukrainian defender, 30-year-old kickboxer Oleksiy Anulya from Chernihiv, who spent 10 months in Russian captivity, shared his experiences of the abuse and torture he endured in the captivity. Please share.

WARNING: This story contains descriptions of torture and violence.

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Verelased hukkavad Pokrovski suunal vangi langenud 16 ukraina sõjaväelast.

Representatives of the 12th Azov Brigade held meetings at the NATO headquarters dedicated to Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The delegation of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov fighters Serhiy Rotchuk, Nestor Barchuk and Anastasia Lytvynenko, the representative of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of POWs Marianna Homeriki and the representative of the Association of Azovstal defenders' families @AzovstalFam, sister of convicted Azov fighter Yevheniya Synelnyk, held a number of meetings at NATO Headquarters to discuss the issue of Ukrainian prisoners of war held in Russian colonies.

The Ukrainian delegation met with NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Marie-Doha Besancenot, Head of the Ukraine Cooperation Division and Transformation of NATO's Operations Division Francis Wells, representatives of NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, and Daniel Bate of the Human Security Unit of the NATO Secretary General's Office.

In addition, the Ukrainian delegation met with the Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO Natalia Galibarenko and the Military Representative of Ukraine to NATO Major General Serhiy Salkutsan.

The main topic of the meeting was the issue of Mariupol defenders’ exchange, in particular, the servicemen of the 12th Azov Brigade. Fighters of the Azov Brigade who had been captured by Russia told about their experiences and described the cruel treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which violated all the rules established by international treaties.

In addition, Yevhenia Synelnyk told the story of her brother who was illegally imprisoned in Russia. The process of exchanging such POWs is even more complicated. The sister of an illegally convicted Azov fighter said that she and other family members of POWs receive no information about the whereabouts and health of the fighters.

Russia's failure to comply with the Geneva Conventions, systematic violations of the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and obstruction of visits by international organizations to places where our fighters are being held are another important topic of the delegation's reports.

We hope that in the future European leaders will pay constant and systematic attention to the treatment of prisoners of war. We will bring back each and every fighter.