Ukrainian troops captured in the Battle of Mariupol have accused the Russian army of serious abuse. These include beatings and “severe torture”. Some soldiers had put needles into their wounds.
“They stripped us and forced us to squat naked. If one of the boys raised his head, they would immediately hit him,” Ukrainian soldier and Azov militant Denys Cherpouko said at a news conference Monday. He and other men were captured after the Russian capture of Mariupol in May and later released in a prisoner exchange.
Weeks of fierce fighting preceded the conquest. The last fighters of the former Azov Regiment Volunteer Battalion, which Russia calls a “neo-Nazi group,” remained at the Mariupol steel plant, resisting the Russian siege of the city. After the soldiers finally surrendered, they saw cases of “severe torture,” they said. “Some had put needles into their wounds, some were tortured with water,” said former prisoner Vladyslaw Shaivoronok.
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Bones were broken in prisoners. The information of the former soldiers could not be independently verified. The Azov regiment was formally integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 after it had been involved in fighting Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine started on February 24. Russian troops are accused of atrocities not only against the armed forces, but also against the Ukrainian civilian population. However, the Ukrainian army would also shoot at civilians.
Source: Krone
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