After returning to Ukraine, Ukrainian citizens exchange allegations of humiliation and inhumane conditions in russian captivity.
Among those rescued are severely wounded, with sepsis, amputated limbs.
Capturing Ukrainian men, the russians took their boots, filled them with water and put them on again. After that, the prisoners were forced to lie face down on the ground in the cold for three or four days.
With frostbitten limbs and blindfolds, the men were taken to russian camps, then to SIZO, a prison in the russian city of Kursk, where they received no medical treatment.
Instead, Ukrainians were dressed in the form of prisoners, had their hair cut, tortured, forced to learn patriotic russian songs and perform them for their supervisors. Interrogations took place two or three times a day, after which the men were severely beaten and later forced to sign documents stating that they had been treated well.
The occupiers decided to exchange the seriously ill, with limbs and toes amputated due to frostbite. Due to the lack of ambulances, the occupiers exchanged seriously wounded Ukrainians for five hours on freight railway platforms. The russians placed the wounded on the road on a stretcher, where they were taken away by soldiers.
By taking civilians hostage, the russian occupiers are violating international humanitarian law, including Article 34 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949, which explicitly prohibits the unjustified detention of civilian hostages.
