A representative of GUR cited facts about the system of violation of the rights of prisoners built in the Russian Federation at the forum “Genocidal practices in the Russian Federation in Ukraine: from the Holodomor to the Russian-Ukrainian war”.
According to him, according to a study by UN experts, more than 95% of military personnel released from Russian captivity were subjected to torture or has suffered from other violations of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.
“In most cases, it was not about using violence to get information. It was intentional torture to break a person’s resistance, break his personality, humiliate his dignity and force him to give up everything that is valuable to this person. Or to break the one next to him,” – said Yusov.
In addition, he noted that the Russian Federation has a whole system of torture:
“Individual people are responsible for this. This is how individual “specialists” are trained – the types of torture are described, and they are taught from them. This is something that no representative of a Western civilized country can imagine.
According to Yusov, the structures responsible for monitoring compliance and protection of the Geneva Conventions and humanitarian law are not functioning.
“Yes, we are talking about the International Committee of the Red Cross, which Russia, on the one hand, actually deprives of the opportunity to work: it does not allow access to places of detention, does not involve training and exchanges where absolutely obvious examples of violations of the Geneva Conventions by the Russian Federation are registered, “should this is not being talked about by Ukraine as a victim, but by the structures responsible for monitoring compliance and implementation of the Geneva Conventions, which in many cases is not the case,” Yusov emphasized.
He reminded that even under these difficult conditions, Ukraine continues to work for the return of our captured defenders and abducted civilians from captivity. During the full-scale invasion, 58 exchanges have already taken place: almost 4 thousand Ukrainians have returned home.
“Unfortunately, we are talking about thousands of others and we have to fight for them: both for the military and for civilians,” emphasized the GUR representative.
