It has created conditions for holding people with wounds: amputees and those lying down. The Russian side deliberately refuses to return the disabled and sick.
Captured Russians
A new “Center-5” has opened in Ukraine, where special conditions have been created for holding prisoners of war with wounds.
This was reported by the press service of the state project of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, “I Want to Live.”
“Since the number of Russians who are handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces every month significantly exceeds the number of those whom Russia returns in exchanges, the places where prisoners of war are held in Ukraine are filling up very quickly,” the statement said.
The conditions in the camp meet all the requirements of international humanitarian law: separate sleeping places, three hot meals a day, showers with hot water, access to medical care.
The peculiarity of “Center-5” is that the camp has created conditions for holding prisoners of war with wounds: amputees, lying, prisoners of war with various diseases.
“There are a lot of such Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, and the Russian side deliberately refuses to return the disabled and sick. For 2.5 years now, Russia has refused to comply with the requirements of the Geneva Conventions and has blocked the creation of mixed medical commissions to repatriate the wounded and sick,” the report says.
“Ukraine maintains the greatest possible openness regarding the treatment of prisoners of war. Therefore, various international observers and media can visit both “Center-5″ and other places where Russian prisoners are being held.”
- At the beginning of the year, it was reported that Ukraine already had two camps for holding Russian prisoners of war and that a third was planned. In May, a new prisoner of war camp, “Center-3”, opened and received its first Russian prisoners.
- Prisoners of war are held in Ukraine in accordance with the requirements of the Geneva Convention. They can send and receive letters from their families, and jobs have been created for them.
- Instead, the health of Ukrainians who have returned from Russian captivity is quite poor. Most of them need rehabilitation; they have chronic diseases that require medical care. More than 90% of prisoners have been tortured.
- Russia also uses prisoners of war to provoke protests in Ukraine.