Horrifying torture practices have been reported in Russian prison camps, where captured Ukrainian soldiers are fed dog food and subjected to nauseating brutality, the Mirror reports.
Russian authorities have long halted prisoner exchanges with Ukraine, and those who returned from prison camps in Russia recalled being repeatedly beaten to the point of losing consciousness and being fed scraps of dog food mixed with dog hair.
Moreover, the bodies of soldiers who died in Russian prisons have been returned to Ukraine bearing marks of torture.
Ukrainian Oleksandr “Sasha” Hrytsiuk died in captivity in Russia, apparently from tuberculosis. His body was only identifiable by his tattoos. His wife Oksana said he had been in good health, weighing 110 kg before his incarceration, but at the time he weighed less than 50 kg.
“All that was left of him was bones and skin. His head was bruised, his nose was crooked and the nail on his index finger was missing. I don't know if it was plucked out or crushed,” she said.
Fellow prisoner Oleksiy Kulets said he witnessed the torture of two prisoners, who were hit with electric shocks on their genitals. He said guards knocked out his teeth. Machine gunners and snipers were subjected to particularly brutal torture.
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