DW is not naming the exact location of the building for security reasons. A prisoner from Russia, whose leg had been amputated, in the infirmary where he was receiving treatment. Another captured Russian, Eduard, 22, enlisted to get four years cut from a sentence for car theft. A private named Aleksandr, 44, who shaved three years off a sentence for illegal logging by enlisting with Wagner, said that before deploying to the front he was told he would be shot if he disobeyed orders to advance. Guards used it to immobilize their victims and start torturing them.". Russian President Vladimir Putin is placing children displaced from Ukraine with families KYIV Ukraine and Russia traded almost 200 prisoners of war (POWs) in a swop announced separately by both sides on Saturday, with the bodies of Eventually the catering contracts expanded to include military services. The figure includes 560 soldiers who were killed over the past day. ", On how Prigozhin's criminal past enables him to connect to prisoners. Russia dangles freedom to prisoners if they fight in Ukraine. None of the prisoners DW spoke with complained about poor prison conditions or inhumane treatment. The DPR stated 1,102 civilians were killed in its territories between 1 January 2022 and 12 January 2023. [+] Ukraine on the 1st anniversary of the Ukraine - Russia war in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., United States on February 25, 2023. The conditions of the Russian detention facilities were described as overcrowded and dirty with insufficient lighting and heat, according to investigators. The vast majority of the deaths took place in the first year of the war, when major combat took place before the Minsk agreements. Viktor Kovalenko. WebAmerican mercenary John McIntyre, who served in the foreign legion of Ukraine and went over to the side of Russia, said in an interview with the TV channel RT February 28, as He was balding and wore shoes without laces. Sick soldiers are reportedly marked using wristbands: red for those who are HIV-positive and white for fighters with hepatitis. "It's so dystopian that it's really hard to believe. Deputy Justice Minister Olena Vysozka told DW that the expenses are justified because the detention conditions for prisoners of war have to comply with the Geneva Convention.In addition, Russian prisoners need to be healthy and in good shape for exchangeswith Ukrainians captured by the Russians, she said. hide caption, A poster displays a Russian soldier with a slogan reading "Glory to the Heroes of Russia.". In the interview, he admitted to dealing marijuana and meth, for which he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2020. WebDenis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed head of the part of Ukraine's Donetsk region that is under Russian control, said earlier that a prisoner swap with Kyiv was taking place, Ukrainian prisoners of war are seen after a swap in an unknown location of Ukraine on Saturday. On the night of Jan. 1, they were commanded to advance 500 yards along the tree line, then dig in and wait for a subsequent wave to arrive. [81][82] Analysts warned about accepting the Ukrainian claims as fact, as Western countries were emphasizing the Russian military's toll, while Russian news outlets have largely stopped reporting on the Russian death toll. It's a bit of a disregard, really, for human life. On the little training the Wagner Group mercenary soldiers get. Their accounts could not be independently corroborated but conformed with assessments of the fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut by Western governments and military analysts. A war crime is defined by the United Nations as a serious breach of international law committed against civilians or enemy forces during an armed conflict. In interviews last week, half a dozen prisoners of war provided rare firsthand accounts of what it is like to be part ofa sacrificial Russian assault. Kyiv, Ukraine CNN On March 8, three Ukrainian military helicopters were shot down as they returned from a combat mission inside Russian-occupied territory. And what do they think of the war? A Russian spokeswoman claimed that she had also told Johnson during a phone call about the men's treatment that the UK should "show mercy" to the Ukrainian citizens by stopping military aid to the Ukrainian government when asked to show the men mercy. Based on these observations, we can assume that the list of confirmed losses maintained by the BBC contain at least 40-60% fewer names of the dead than actually buried in Russia. In comparison, Russia suffered somewhere between 13,000 to 25,000 fatalities in Chechnya over a period of 15 years and the Soviet Union also suffered roughly 14,000 to 16,000 combat fatalities in Afghanistan. Ukrainian marine servicemen stand on a street in front of the residential building which was heavily bombed by Russian forces, in the frontline city of Vuhledar, Ukraine. They are not surprised by the visit of journalists. Ukrainian prisoners described so-called "admission procedures" upon arrival at the place of internment, which involved prolonged beatings, strangling, twisting or breaking of joints or bones, attacks by dog, tasering, mock executions, sexual violence, stripping and use of stress positions. Look, hes still alive. "It turns out that the best courageous men are dying on Ukraine's side, while the Russians are mobilizing prisoners who would have died of their illnesses in a year or so anyway.". [262], Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, announced on 27 February 2022, that the country had reached out to the International Committee of the Red Cross for help in the repatriation effort of the bodies of killed Russian soldiers. Permission was granted on the condition that DW would not report the exact whereabouts of the prisoners or show their faces. [11][12], According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1,175 of the Ukrainian servicemen died due to non-combat causes by 5 March 2021. 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[59], In late August 2015, according to a reported leak by a Russian news site, Business Life (Delovaya Zhizn), 2,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine by 1 February 2015.[60][61]. Earlier, Russia did not, so interviews were conducted with Ukrainian POWs when they were released. We want to hear from you. In addition, there are expenses for medical equipment and medicine, as well as staffing costs. Ukraine struggles to return its defenders. Nobody could ever believe such a thing could exist, Sergei said of Wagner tactics. The reportby the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights found that both Russia and Ukraine have captured a high number of prisoners of war. Laundry hung in a courtyard at the camp. He got very quick medical attention. It's so dystopian that it's really hard to believe. Dozens of families in Central Asia Killed by a quadcopter dropped explosive device on a vehicle at the Troebortnoye border checkpoint, in Russia's Bryansk Region, Includes soldiers, border guards, police officers and 9 foreign fighters from the. They are not aggressive and are usually just waiting for a prisoner exchange. Me and my colleague, when we were researching this article, we managed to get hold of a few prisoners who are still in prison and speak with them either by text message or in other ways, and ask them how they saw this guy, why people agreed to go, why, in that case, they didn't agree to go. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. During the interviews, DW journalists were accompanied by prison staff who allowed themto choose the men theywanted to interview. Detainees watching Ukrainian television news this month at the camp in western Ukraine. WebA report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights found that Russian forces committed widespread abuse against prisoners captured in Ukraine. But, when he arrived in the Kharkiv region, he says, he didn't see a single nationalist. [55] The United States Department of State estimated 400500 of these were regular Russian soldiers. ANKARA Over 2,000 prisoners have been exchanged between Russia and Ukraine since the start of the war on Feb. 24 last year, according to figures compiled by Anadolu. Yermak said the released POWs include And not long after one of these investigations came out, her husband was just arriving home to their apartment when [an] unknown assailant appeared, stabbed him in the leg with a syringe and ran off, and he then collapsed. We're going to throw you right in at the front line. Audio interview adapted to NPR.org by: Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper. Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said that 116 Ukrainians were freed. 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"I believed the news on television that we were going to travel to Ukraine to help, that there were nationalists here who would kill and torture their own people," he says. [265][266] Kyiv authorities have also reached out to the International Commission on Missing Persons, which was formed to help after the 1990s Balkan conflicts and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and identifies individuals by collecting DNA samples from the deceased and families to cross match. 24.02.2023, 11:02. "The Kremlin is sort of looking for ways to disguise the fact that its troops are active in Ukraine [and] Prigozhin steps in," Walker says. NATO: Finland forges ahead of Sweden toward membership, Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy calls for ICC Russia probe, Russian troops step up fight to cut off Bakhmut supply lines. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. Receive daily updates directly in your inbox -, Ukrainian and Russian POWs tortured and ill-treated: OHCHR, UNs human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, Bucha killings raise serious questions about possible war crimes: Bachelet, Ukraine: Support for war crimes investigations of paramount importance, UNs Bachelet condemns horrors faced by Ukraines civilians, General Assembly adopts resolution on Russian reparations for Ukraine. [268] In some locations villagers kept track of the deceased, such as in Yahidne, a village north of Kyiv, where they used a school basement wall to write the names of the deceased while under Russian control. On the dangers of investigating Prigozhin. POWs described being beaten, including with batons and wooden hammers, being kicked, and given electric shocks with tasers and a military phone known as TAPik. "My cousin is fighting in a neighboring unit, and there were prisoners from Wagner already diagnosed with AIDS, syphilis, and hepatitis, but I know they still received medical care," he said. Talking to Ukrainians who have been on the other side of the lines and kind of watched the Wagner troops approach them, they've said the same thing: that it's really strength in numbers. WebFeb 4, 2023, 11:52 PM SGT. WebWith Putin's blessing, the Wagner Group has recruited inmates from Russian prisons to fight in the war in Ukraine promising a pardon if they survive six months on the battlefield. With Putin's blessing, the Wagner Group has recruited inmates from Russian prisons to fight in the war in Ukraine promising a pardon if they survive six months on the battlefield. A Peruvian citizen was also reported missing while fighting alongside the Ukrainian military. As the Russian military has struggled in the war, tens of thousands of mercenary soldiers, many of them convicts recruited from Russian prisons, have joined the fight. "He comes out of prison and he starts off selling hotdogs. ", "It's just so out of the realms of fantasy that this former convict is going to fly around prisons in his helicopter and offer people salvation for fighting for him at the front, and then lead these battalions of prisoners to their almost certain death," Walker says. [58] One of those killed was the former Chechen rebel commander Isa Munayev. [citation needed] According to The Guardian, while it was likely that Ukraine was using the discomfort of captured soldiers for propaganda purposes, still the videos succeeded in showing the Russian servicemen's "authentic sense" of regret for having come to Ukraine. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. February 25, 2023 14:25 GMT. [citation needed] The head of the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for POW Treatment, Iryna Vereshchuk, raised concerns that Russia had not released information to Ukrainian authorities on the location of any Ukrainian POW's and the International Red Cross had not been allowed to see them, as of 16 March. The fighting would turn out to be far more dangerous than he had imagined. [53][54], Foreign volunteers have been involved in the conflict, fighting on both sides. [37] By the end of December 2017, the number of confirmed missing on the Ukrainian side was 402,[38] including 123 soldiers. Documentation and identification of the bodies began with many hastily dug graves and rubble being cleared away to photograph and identify the bodies as well as count the number involved. In some cases, the investigators found that Ukrainian forces tortured Russian troops, though those incidents were less frequent. Women POWs told interviewers that they were not subjected to physical violence but described being psychologically tormented by the screams of male POWs being tortured in nearby cells. There he learned to drive a T-72 tank in just a few days. [107][102] The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) considers the number of civilian casualties to be considerably higher than the one the United Nations are able to certify. Ukraine gave the mission access to Russian POWs where they were being held. Get this delivered to your inbox, and more info about our products and services. During interviews with him and two other POWs, a guard, a psychologist from the pre-trial detention center, and other prisoners were present. They say representatives of the United Nations or the Red Cross come by every week. [7] On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid near the Crimean town of Armiansk which killed two Russian servicemen. The former convicts, Colonel Kostenko said, are herded into the battlefield by harsh discipline: They have orders, and they cannot disobey orders, especially in Wagner.. American mercenary John McIntyre, who served in the foreign legion of Ukraine and went over to the side of Russia, said in an interview with the TV channel RT February 28, as Ukrainian militants tortured prisoners of war. Their number is constantly changing due to regular exchanges. "But you go to the front, you put in your service after six months, you're free to go.". Matilda Bogner, Head of the UNs human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, said that, over the past few months, her team had interviewed 159 prisoners of war or POWs - both men and women, held by Russia, and 175 male prisoners of war held by Ukraine. While some have raised concerns that the conferences breach the Geneva Convention through potential unnecessary humiliation, US journalists who spoke to POW's independently of the conference claimed there was no intervention by Ukraine officials, by physical or mental coercion. [39] The separatists also reported 433 missing on their side by mid-December 2016,[40] and 321 missing by mid-February 2022. All Rights Reserved. One of the soldiers died heroically on the battlefield. Ukraine also tended to be quieter about its own military fatalities. In most cases, Ukrainian prisoners were released without having received adequate medical care. It's not the cosmopolitan elites. But after just three days,he was ordered to encircle Kharkiv, a city of over a million people. By luck, the bullets missed him, he said. [89] It also claimed 61,207 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 49,368 wounded by this point. KYIV, Ukraine Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned home following a prisoner swap, officials on both sides said Saturday. We've had very different figures of how many have been captured or killed or wounded. All of these people said, "We wouldn't trust a normal Russian official, but this guy had something about him that made us think he was one of us." "Some identified hunger as the most severe hardship suffered while in captivity," the authors of the report wrote. The DW journalists personally had the impression that the presence of detention facility staff had no impact on the prisoners' narratives or their willingness to speak. Excluding the Russian and Ukrainian military casualties, at least 215 combatants and volunteers, foreign citizens or foreign-born, were killed during the war. It was only here that I realized that.". The report added that other prisoners described similar forms of sexual violence such as "pulling a victim by a rope tied around his genitalia.". Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh spent three months in captivity after being captured by Russian troops. WebFebruary 25, 2023 14:25 GMT. The UN has called on both sides to treat POWs humanely and to promptly and effectively investigate all alleged cases of torture and ill-treatment. It could be, Colonel Kostenko said, that such infantry assaults on entrenched defenses will remain mostly confined to the fight for Bakhmut and that they are being used to conserve tanks and armored personnel carriers for the expected offensive. 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As of Monday, Russia lost a total of 148,690 military personnel in combat, as per estimates from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. (Editor's note: This is the official Kremlin term for Russia's war against Ukraine. Prisoners of war on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine have told UN human rights investigators that they have been subjected to torture and ill hide caption. Interviews with former Wagner soldiers at the Ukrainian detention center aligned with these descriptions of the fighting and shed light on a violent, harrowing experience for Russian soldiers. And I guess in certain constituencies in Russia, that's something people find horrifying. [167] Below is a list of the nationalities of the foreign fighter casualties. According to Bogner, however, UN observers had also received information that Russian soldiers were allegedly mistreated and tortured after their capture. All of the reports we've had of the way that the convicts are used by the Wagner Group is that they're not used on sort of difficult strategic operations or anything particularly targeted and careful. The women prisoners who were interviewed said that while they were not physically tortured, they were placed in cells close to where male prisoners were being beaten and tortured. In several cases, Russian POWs said they were stabbed or given electric shocks with the TAPik phone by Ukrainian law enforcement officers or military personnel guarding them. It follows the emergence of a video from the front line in WebUkrainian and Russian primary sources enable us to integrate the civilian Soviet population into the story of the Wehrmacht's treatment of Soviet POWs during World War II. There's nothing in the Russian legal code, and there's been no amendments to suggest that it's possible to simply take people out of prisons and pardon them. But the first set of people have already done that six months and some of them have been freed. Russia has already sent approximately 300 persons to the combat zone, as reported by The Media Line (TML) and the Telegram channel of Radio Liberty. According to the meal plan posted in the hallway, food is served three times a day. The soldiers in Sergeis squad were recruited from penal colonies by the private military company known as Wagner, whose forces have mostly been deployed in the Bakhmut area. The BBC has confirmed the location west of Kyiv and found satellite images showing bodies on the ground. The fighting is incredibly intense. All rights reserved. CSIS estimated Russia suffered an average of roughly 5,000 to 5,800 military fatalities per month over the first year of the war. [375] Amnesty International argued that Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention prohibits videos of captured soldiers. Former convicts from Russia have become an integral part of Russias military strategy as itfights for Bakhmut, Ukraine. From there, some are returned to Russia in prisoner exchanges. What Prigozhin is trying to do is really redefine who makes up Russian society and the Russian nation. The exchange of prisoners is the biggest between Moscow and Kyiv since the start of Russia's invasion in February. [23] Subsequently, the military did not publish new figures on their non-combat losses, stating they could be considered a state secret.[24]. At the beginning of June 2015, the Donetsk region's prosecutors reported 1,592 civilians had gone missing in government-controlled areas, of which 208 had been located. "They were constantly psychologically tormented by the screams of male POWs being tortured or ill-treated. It's these prisoners. Thus, according to CSIS's analysis, the average rate of Russian fatalities per month over the first year of the conflict in Ukraine was at least 25 times more than in Chechnya and at least 35 times more than in the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan. United Nations investigators found that some prisoners lost up to a quarter of their body weight as a result of the lack of food, poor hygiene and sickness. Russia claimed to have captured 572 Ukrainian soldiers by 2 March 2022,[364] while Ukraine claimed 562 Russian soldiers were being held as prisoners as of 20 March,[365] with 10 previously reported released in prisoner exchanges for five Ukrainian soldiers and the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov. From his time as a stretcher bearer, he said, he estimated that half of the men in each assault were wounded or killed, with shrapnel and bullet wounds the most common injuries. Prison staff say that Russian soldier Vadim S., who was also imprisoned along with the prisoners here, allegedly only confessed to shooting and killing a civilian in the Sumy region during a lie detector test. The broadcaster believes the word Gruziny which means Georgians in Russian can also be heard. DW was able to get exclusive access and speak with prisoners in one facility. Several POWs released from various places of detention described being forced to consume their food in a harmful or humiliating manner. It was a very strong animal tranquilizer that had been injected into his leg. DW spoke with prisoner Oleg from Karelia in private in a separate room. [100] Mid-June, Davyd Arakhamia, Ukraine's chief negotiator with Russia, told Axios that between 200 and 500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed every day. There have been two prisoner exchanges since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy came to power in May 2019 -- one in September and the other in late December. "Here are some helpful resources to make sense of it all. [379] On 22 April, Yuri Sirovatko, Minister of Justice of the Donetsk People's Republic, claimed that some 3,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war were held in the territory of the DPR. He's not sugarcoating this at all. WebCNN's Nick Paton Walsh investigates Russia's use of prisoners to fight the war in Ukraine. and are usually just waiting for a prisoner exchange. Mediazona added that "the real toll is likely in the tens of thousands. The remains of a bombed out bedroom in Borodianka, Kyiv. [103] According to BBC News, Ukrainian claims of Russian fatalities were including the injured as well. Show Transcript. Vo vojne dajne zomrel Slovk, ktor bojoval na strane Rusov", " "" , "" , "" . Russia is recruiting young Palestinians and Syrians for the war against Ukraine. https://t.co/HO6VltRiSM https://t.co/6AAGbqaFXU. Slogan reading `` Glory to the Heroes of Russia 's invasion in February about poor prison conditions inhumane... 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