By its exit from the European Convention on the prevention of torture or inhuman or humiliating the dignity of appeal or punishment, Russia is actually recognized in the crime. In particular, in the systemic practice of torture and the desire to avoid responsibility for gross violations of human rights. This was stated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

" The decision to withdraw from the Convention on torture only consolidates this reality and finally puts Russia in a number of countries for which the price of human life and dignity is zero are equal. Unlike most other international treaties in this area, which rely mainly on declarations, reporting or periodic reviews, the convention contains a preventive mechanism of both regular and sudden visits to the non -freedom places to prevent torture (ECSK/SRT) in order to directly check the conditions of maintenance and treatment of people, ”the Foreign Ministry said in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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The department noted that since February 2022, when the Russian Federation has carried out a full-scale invasion, Ukraine systematically insists on the exclusion of a aggressor country from all cooperation mechanisms within the framework of the Council of Europe. After all, Russia has become a totalitarian country with a repressive apparatus, which systematically violates human rights, undermines democracy and despises the rule of law.

" At the same time, Russia actually destroyed the mechanism of the Convention: it did not take real participation in the work of the ECPK and did not allow the committee experts to study and document the situation with torture, ”the Foreign Ministry said.

The statement states that this corresponds to Russia's practice to block independent access to the places of non -freedom, including where Ukrainian prisoners of war are contained. And this, noted in the Foreign Ministry, testifies that the Russian Federation sequentially “closes” any channels of international control, tries to hide the truth about the created system of dungeons, and also regains the famous reputation of the “Empire of Primes”.

" A country using torture as an integral component of its policy cannot be a party to the Convention, which should unite legal states. The responsibility of the aggressor state for numerous crimes, in particular torture, should be inevitable. Ukraine insists on the speedy use of international mechanisms for holding and urges the international community to act actively and without delay, ”they summed up in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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According to The Wall Street Journal, after the full-scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, the heads of regional departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation (FSIN, or Russian FSIN) ordered their subordinates to be especially cruel with Ukrainian prisoners of war and not neglect the use of force. “Be cruel, do not regret them,” said Igor Potapenko, head of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, employees of the employees of elite units of the service who were instructed to control the flow of prisoners. Similar instructions were received by employees of the service in other regions.

However, Russians are trying not only prisoners of war, but also civilians, in particular journalists. Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina did not survive. Victoria Roshchina's body was returned to Ukraine only in February 2025. According to " INFO ”, the invaders cruelly tortured her and hid her from checks: the journalist had stab wounds on the journalist’s body, and the weight before his death did not exceed 30 kilograms. And the authors of the Victoria project said that they had to exchange the grove in early September 2024, but the Russians tore off the exchange. Soon after, Victoria died.

According to investigators, in the body that was returned to Ukraine, there were no organs - the brain, eyeballs and part of the trachea. This may indicate that the cause of death was strangulation.

In addition, for the entire time of the occupation of the Crimean peninsula, many cases of improper handling of the Crimean Tatars are recorded, who were imprisoned in falsified matters. In particular, this content in inhuman conditions, non -ordering of medical care and the like.