At the United Nations Security Council, former Ukrainian prisoners of war and their officials brought forward testimony that more than 95 percent of those held in Russian captivity experienced systematic torture — beatings, electric shocks, prolonged isolation, and sexual violence. The evidence, gathered from survivors themselves, points not to the chaos of individual cruelty but to something deliberate and organized. Russia denied the claims and countered with accusations of its own, and in that familiar deadlock, thousands of prisoners remain unaccounted for, suspended between competing narr
95% of Ukrainian POWs report torture in Russian detention, U.N. told
Thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians remain in Russian detention after experiencing documented torture, sexual abuse, and systematic ill-treatment.