Thế Giới

Russia announced the arrest of a group that tortured prisoners

The chairman of the Defense Committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament said that the Russian special forces arrested two people from a group believed to be Ukrainian soldiers abusing Russian prisoners of war.

“The joy of our military torturers didn’t last long. Three days after the video came out, our task force arrested these bastards. Now they’re begging to be invited. mercy,” said Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, or lower house of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Shamanov on March 29.

The Russian lawmaker did not name two people believed to be Ukrainian soldiers arrested, only saying that they were extremist members of a group of supporters of Ukrainian football club Metalist.

The Russian Defense Ministry has not confirmed the MP’s statement. Ukraine has not yet commented.





The image of a group of Russian POWs being tortured in the video appeared on social networks over the weekend.  Photo: RT.

The image of a group of Russian POWs being tortured in the video appeared on social networks over the weekend. Photo: RT.

The video is almost 6 minutes long An appearance on social media over the weekend showed a group of people believed to be Ukrainian soldiers saying they had captured a Russian reconnaissance group operating in Olkhovka, a settlement in Kharkov, northeastern Ukraine, 32 kilometers from the Russian border. The group of prisoners lay on the ground, apparently beaten and with wounds to their legs.

The prisoners were interrogated by armed soldiers. Many soldiers wear blue armbands, commonly used by Ukrainian units. Several POWs appear to have died in the process. The video also shows three other prisoners being asked to get out of the vehicle and shot in the leg.

The chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, announced on March 27 that an investigation had been opened “to determine all the circumstances, collect evidence and identify those involved in order to force them to face justice”. The founder of the US government-funded Bellingcat investigative journalism group, Eliot Higgins, described the incident as a “very serious incident” and called for “further investigation”.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on March 27 that the government is seriously looking into the video and will launch an immediate investigation. Meanwhile, the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi accused “the adversary of filming and distributing staged videos showing Ukrainian soldiers inhumane treatment of Russian prisoners of war in order to discredit the defense forces”. defense of Ukraine”.

Russia on February 24 launched a special military operation to “de-arm and de-fascist Ukraine”. After several rounds of negotiations for more than a month, the discussion between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 29 raised hopes for peace with Moscow agreeing to “dramatically reduce” military activities in the region. north and around the Ukrainian capital, while Kiev stated conditions for the agreement on neutrality.

Huyen Le (According to Sputnik)

You are reading the article Russia announced the arrest of a group that tortured prisoners
at Blogtuan.info – Source: vnexpress.net – Read the original article here

Back to top button