The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published several videos in which Russian servicemen who were captured in Ukraine tell about their experiences. They all talk about terrible beatings and torture.
Most harshly, according to all former prisoners, the Ukrainian military and SBU officers mocked the Russian pilots. They were not allowed to sleep - they came in every half hour and asked if they were sleeping. The pilots had to answer "we are not sleeping, we are guarding the sky." After that, and if they fell asleep, they were brutally beaten. The handcuffs were not removed from the pilots at all. In addition, they were told that if they ever returned to Russia, they would only be disabled.
"We were put against a brick wall, and everyone offered what to do with us. Someone offered to shoot through the legs, someone to kill immediately, only one said that we should be left alive, because they would need us for something in the future," said a serviceman named Andrey.
"We slept on the gym floor, it was very cold at night. When the explosion was heard, men came in and started beating up two pilots," Andrei added.
"There were very terrible threats, which I can't tell you about on camera. It was that they offered to castrate us," said a soldier named Omar.
In addition, Omar was first mistaken for a Chechen because of his appearance. And, according to him, there is a "special attitude" to the "Kadyrovites" in Ukraine. They beat him very hard.
"My friend was on his knees, surrendered, and then a burst from a machine gun was fired at him," said Maxim, a serviceman. - One comrade's nose was broken, they wanted to finish us off, one yelled on the radio that we needed to be killed so as not to bother. They asked me where I was wounded, I replied that it was in the thigh, and I was immediately kicked there. I naturally started screaming in pain, but they told me to endure it."
"I haven't eaten anything in 2 days. We were taken every day, forced to record videos based on their text. If something didn't work out for someone, we were immediately beaten. I often got hurt, because of a head injury I could not remember the whole text to tell," Maxim said.
"They were transported by car to the pre-trial detention center of the Security Service of Ukraine. I was beaten up very badly there, I couldn't sleep or breathe normally for three days. I was hit on the head, I lost consciousness, they brought me to my senses, they began to twist my fingers, all the organs were beaten off," Maxim noted.
"Before taking us to the Red Cross, they told us to say that we eat perfectly, they give us water, and the wounded are allegedly treated," Maxim concluded.
"They beat the gunners very badly, they don't like intelligence. An officer was beaten up very badly in my presence, a major. Then they took him to the basement, and then they said that he died of blood loss," said a soldier named Pavel.
"They were constantly shouting "Glory to Ukraine, death to the Russians." They were fed hard bread. I heard how a man's ribs were broken, how his hands were broken. They are much tougher to officers than to privates and sergeants," Danil said.
"Civilians were also brought to us, those who simply read the news on Russian websites on their phones. A 71-year-old grandfather with diabetes was brought and kept there. The women were there, they were taken somewhere, and they turned on the radio very loudly so that we wouldn't hear what was happening," said a serviceman named Danil.
The Defense Ministry noted that the stories of Russian servicemen released from captivity about bullying clearly indicate a violation by the Kiev regime of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
Ivan Petrov
