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The National Police of Ukraine has identified 159 locations of unlawful detention of Ukrainians in temporarily occupied territories and in Russia. This was stated by the Acting Head of the National Police, Maksym Tsyutskiridze.
According to him, Russia has turned unlawful deprivation of liberty and torture of Ukrainians into one of the tools of its occupation policy.
Among the identified places of deprivation of liberty are basements, torture chambers, filtration camps, pre-trial detention centers, and corrective colonies. Thousands of civilian citizens and servicemen have passed through the system created by Russia. A part of them remains in captivity.
Law enforcement officers have already processed information about several thousand civilian hostages who returned from unlawful detention. About 500 people were questioned as victims and witnesses.
“We are studying not only the events at the last place of deprivation but reconstructing the entire path of a person—from the moment of capture to the facility from which they were released or exchanged,” noted Maksym Tsyutskiridze.
At every stage, investigators identify the persons who made decisions about moving Ukrainians, escorted, guarded, and interrogated them, and who used violence. The testimonies of the victims are cross-checked with each other and verified against digital data, open sources, intelligence materials, and information from international partners.
In the framework of the investigations, more than one thousand individuals involved in unlawful detention and torture of Ukrainians have already been identified. Specifically, in the Kalininsky colony, more than 80 individuals were identified, of whom 42 were charged.
In total, charges have been brought against 120 individuals involved in crimes against Ukrainians in the occupied territories and in Russia.
One of the results of the investigation was the filing of a charge against the head of the Detention Facility No. 3 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm Krai of the Russian Federation. According to the investigation, he organized the torture of Ukrainian civilian prisoners, which led to the death of journalist Viktoriya Roshchina and the head of the Dnipro-rodnenska city territorial community Yevhen Matveyev.
“For us, it is fundamentally important to establish not only the direct performers but the entire chain of responsibility—from those who tortured, guarded, and escorted people to those leaders who created places of deprivation of liberty, organized their operation, and gave criminal orders. Among the persons involved are employees of Russian security forces, representatives of the occupation administrations, and Ukrainian collaborators,” Tsyutskiridze emphasized.
The goal of the investigations is to legally prove that unlawful detention, relocation, and torture of Ukrainians are not isolated crimes, but part of an organized system by Russia.
Also read: Tsyutskiridze: almost 90% of proceedings for embezzlement in the run-up to winter are already in courts.
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