They're really used as cannon fodder. 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. In most cases, Ukrainian prisoners were released without having received adequate medical care. On Sunday, the British defense intelligence agencysaidthat over the past two weeks, Russia had probably suffered its highest rate of casualties since the first week of the invasion. It's so dystopian that it's really hard to believe. There have been many instances of troops being captured by both Ukrainian and Russian forces throughout the invasion. We were hit by machine-gun fire, said the soldier, a private named Sergei. Relatives mourn the death of Fathullo Narzulloev, a Tajik convict who was killed in Ukraine. [citation needed], According to Ukraine, as of 30 December 2022, 3,392 Ukrainian servicemen were being held by Russia as prisoners of war, while 15,000 soldiers and civilians were missing. Editor's note: The following article contains graphic material detailing reports of torture and sexual violence. WebA report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights found that Russian forces committed widespread abuse against prisoners captured in Ukraine. On the little training the Wagner Group mercenary soldiers get. According to Bogner, however, UN observers had also received information that Russian soldiers were allegedly mistreated and tortured after their capture. On the dangers of investigating Prigozhin. [16] Two Kyrgyz and one Georgian have also been killed fighting on the separatist side. In October last year, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry accused the Wagner group of forcibly drafting Russian prisoners with HIV and hepatitis. An additional 150,000 are in training camps, officials said, meaning there is the potential for half a million soldiers to join the offensive. If you try to run away, we'll shoot you. DW was able to get exclusive access and speak with prisoners in one facility. Though they are prisoners of war overseen by Ukrainians, the Russians said they spoke freely. [79] The BBC further stated that "Every week, we discover new evidence of Russian military funerals in different localities of Russia, which were not reported by local authorities. Russian POWs, held by Ukraine, told interviewers of summary executions and several cases of torture and ill-treatment, mostly when they were captured, first interrogated, or moved to transit camps and places of internment. "He offers to set up a kind of private military company, which will be able to do the Kremlin's work for it, but retain that kind of deniability. Emergency and search-and-rescue teams have deployed to assess and prioritize urgent needs and to provide life-saving assistance following the devastating earthquake near the Trkiye-Syria border. [111][112] According to Ukraine, 350 children have also been reported missing, and 16,222 deported, as of 6 February 2023. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much 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 [375] Amnesty International argued that Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention prohibits videos of captured soldiers. ), He responded toan online advertisement he came across and was sent to Donetsk, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists. The government of Ukraine dismissed the report as a provocation. Eight soldiers were killed, one escaped back to Russian lines and Sergei was captured by Ukrainians. But I was immediately sent to the front lines." The DPR stated 4,176 of its servicemen were killed and 17,379 wounded between 1 January and 22 December, "Consequently, the authors estimate that the total number of fatalities from February 24, 2022, to February 22, 2023, includes between 50,000 and 60,000 soldiers from Russian government units and private military companies, along with approximately 10,000 soldiers from the Donetsk and Luhansk militias (for a total of 60,000 to 70,000 fatalities).". [+] 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. ", Asked why he went to Ukraine, Artyom says: "On television, they tell us that we are supposedly fighting for a good causebut in reality that is not the case at all. It's not the cosmopolitan elites. 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. A Russian mercenary boss has defended the idea of sending prisoners to fight in the Ukraine war after a video showed him recruiting at a prison. In an interview with DW, the head of the UN Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, said that the conditions of detention for Russian prisoners of war were satisfactory overall. Russia Behind Bars, a prison rights group, has estimated that as many as 50,000 Russian prisoners have been recruited since last summer, with most sent to the battle for Bakhmut. Copyright IBTimes 2023. Some women said they were ordered to undress, bend over and touch their feet while guards beat their backs with batons, according to the report. "Here are some helpful resources to make sense of it all. Their number is constantly changing due to regular exchanges. 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. The overall number of estimated deaths in the War in Donbas, from 6 April 2014 until 31 December 2021, was 14,20014,400. We are nobody and have no rights.. According to the guards, plastic cutlery is normally used inprison for safety reasons. Kherson, UkraineNov. Ukraine has released the names of more than 100 Russian prisoners of war captured during the ongoing conflict in the country, urging their mothers to come and "take your sons." DW is not naming the exact location of the building for security reasons. WebAt a pretrial detention facility in Ukraine, the second floor is reserved for Russian prisoners of 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. A Russian private military company is sending prisoners suffering from AIDS or other serious illnesses to the war in Ukraine, according to the accounts of a Ukrainian soldier. Poorly trained Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine describe being used as cannon fodder by commanders throwing waves of bodies into an assault. Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said that 116 Ukrainians were freed. Rights advocates, lawyers say they have no idea on what basis he's able to make this offer. Many are taking the deadly gamble. Western intel says its forces are being ripped apart by artillery and not getting proper care", Ukrainian Innovation in a War of Attrition, " , : ", "Russian casualties in Ukraine. [98], With respect to Russian military losses, Ukrainian estimates tended to be high, while Russian estimates of their own losses tended to be low. Sergei, sat, shoulders slumped, on the sofa in the wardens office of the Ukrainian detention center. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Footage allegedly shows Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian prisoner of war video, BBC investigators attempted to biometrically match, discovery of mass civilian graves in Bucha. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. [368][369][370] Among the released Ukrainian soldiers was one of 13 Ukrainian border-guard members captured during the Russian attack on Snake Island. Permission was granted on the condition that DW would not report the exact whereabouts of the prisoners or show their faces. [56][57] Additionally, at least 262 foreign-born Ukrainian citizens or foreigners died on the Ukrainian side. They brought us to a basement, divided us into five-person groups and, though we hadnt been trained, told us to run ahead, as far as we could go, he said of his commanders. "Honestly, we were deceived,"Roman, who is from Vyborg in Russia, tells us. But with these heavy losses, they sometimes advance.. He lay in the dark until he was captured by Ukrainians who slipped into the buffer area between the two trench lines. BBC investigators attempted to biometrically match the face of one of the men in the video, who can be seen facing the camera with a distinctive beard. Others said they had to eat from dirty dishes or dishes with detergent residue, which caused them digestive problems. There are currently around 1,000 Russian soldiers in the country. 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. AP Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, reported that a platoon of the 74th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade from Kemerovo Oblast surrendered to Ukraine, saying they "didn't know that they were brought to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians". The footage was originally shared on social media app Telegram. 345 unidentified bodies, of mostly soldiers, were also confirmed to be held at morgues in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast or buried. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. The soldiers arrived at the front straight from Russias penal colony system, which is rife with abuse and where obedience to harsh codes of conduct in a violent setting is enforced by prison gangs and guards alike. The Chief Executive of Clearview claimed that the technology could be more effective than matching fingerprints or other identifiable aspects of the individual, although a study by US Department of Energy highlighted the concern of decomposition reducing the effectiveness. 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. Prisoners said they were denied access to natural light or fresh air, and were kept in a single cell with up to 30 other people. In the early phases of thewar, the Russian Army had copious armored vehicles, artillery and other heavy weaponry but relatively few soldiers on the battlefield. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh investigates Russia's use of prisoners to fight the war in Ukraine. We want to hear from you. They then lost contact with the commander and his unit was captured by the Ukrainian army soon after. It's going to be absolutely horrible. A prisoner from Russia, whose leg had been amputated, in the infirmary where he was receiving treatment. Ukraine struggles to return its defenders. Mediazona count, updated", "WAR IN UKRAINE. Russia dangles freedom to prisoners if they fight in Ukraine. Their hands were tied and eyes covered so tightly with duct tape that wounds were left on their wrists and faces that continued to bleed for up to several days. [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. By Farangis Najibullah. WASHINGTON A report commissioned by the United Nations found that Russian forces have committed widespread abuse against prisoners captured during the invasion of Ukraine. Russian prisoners of war at the detention center canteen this month. "We are asked every day if we need anything. "They simply had fun and were not interested in my replies to their questions," he told U.N. investigators. Were bringing the voice of Ukraine to the world. 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 sequential assaults on Ukrainian lines by small units of former Russian prisoners have become a signature Russian tactic in the effort to capture Bakhmut. But after his one experience in an assault, he changed his mind. The cutlery is made of metal. Ukraines foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Thursday he was aware of the video and it would definitely be investigated. There are no official figures on how many Russian soldiers are detained in Ukraine. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said he had not seen the video, but stated: I will say that every report on potential violations of international law should be followed or looked into, and of course, any violation of international law and any war crime is always unacceptable.. 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.. Female prisoners told investigators they were subjected to invasive examinations during admission procedures in the presence of male guards. Perhaps a couple of weeks [of training]. Several POWs released from various places of detention described being forced to consume their food in a harmful or humiliating manner. Friday marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and two Alabama men went to Ukraine to support them in the fight. At least 55 of the war-related child deaths were from the Kyiv area and another 34 were from Kharkiv. But, when he arrived in the Kharkiv region, he says, he didn't see a single nationalist. And then that moment, I think, is really the beginning of the Prigozhin we have today as the kind of warlord.". [49], In December 2017, a large prisoner exchange took place where the rebels released 73 out of 176 prisoners they were holding, while Ukraine released 306 out of 380 of their prisoners. You have no business being here!'". 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. [89] It also claimed 61,207 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 49,368 wounded by this point. He got very quick medical attention. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images The report said prisoners of war, or POWs, were then sent to places of internment in inhumane ways: They were often transported in overcrowded trucks or buses and sometimes lacked access to water or toilets for more than a day. Web15 November 2022 Human Rights. His unit tried to return to Russia, but the commander forbade it. Primary Menu Sections. One woman told U.N. investigators, "I still cannot stand the sound of duct tape. It's a bit of a disregard, really, for human life. Another five or six prisoners released by the separatists decided to stay in rebel-controlled territories. Only when we were already on Ukrainian territory and saw the signs and flags did we realize where we were,"he says. [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. "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. 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. [141] An American citizen was also detained by pro-Russian separatists forces and accused of 'participation in pro-Ukrainian protests'. It's these prisoners. This brought the overall number of prisoners released by the rebels to 3,215. 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. The video emerges days after the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accused the Russian military of undertaking the worst war crimes since the second world war after the discovery of mass civilian graves in Bucha, a city 15 miles north of Kyiv. Yes, they have heavy losses. Now she is convinced that, of course, this attack was linked to her investigation and they managed to rush her husband to [the] hospital. 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[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. Ukraine and Russia traded almost 200 prisoners of war in a swap announced separately by both sides on Saturday, with the bodies of two British volunteers also being sent back to Ukraine. Veteran foreign correspondent Shaun Walker has written about the company that recruits and fields the mercenaries, the Wagner Group, as well as the colorful past of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin. And what do they think of the war? The dead included three protesters,[2][3][4][5] two Ukrainian soldiers[6] and one Russian Cossack paramilitary. It's cramped but clean. So it's clear that Prigozhin has the authority to do this. Part of Prigozhin's pitch really is that patriotic, real Russia is not the guys that go to Paris for the weekend. He spent three months at the front as a stretcher bearer before being ordered forward. In this episode, we draw lessons from this past year: the strength of Ukrainian society, its transformative power, its grassroots nature, as well as the weakness of Russian authoritarianism and its imprisonment in the past. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. It was only here that I realized that.". Relatives mourn the death of Fathullo Narzulloev, a Tajik convict who was killed in Ukraine. But the first set of people have already done that six months and some of them have been freed. All Rights Reserved. So it's kind of a bit of a sort of mafia touch. "He comes out of prison and he starts off selling hotdogs. Of course it wasnt worth it., Our Losses Were Gigantic: Life in a Sacrificial Russian Assault Wave, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-prisoners.html. Earlier, CNN reported that prisoners for the war against Ukraine are now directly recruited by the Russian Defense Ministry. On the other hand, Artyom, another prisoner, says he made a conscious decision to take part in the "special military operation" against Ukraine. WebUkraine and Russia traded almost 200 prisoners of war in a swap announced separately by both sides on Saturday, with the bodies of two British volunteers also being sent back to Excluding the Russian and Ukrainian military casualties, at least 215 combatants and volunteers, foreign citizens or foreign-born, were killed during the war. The Ukrainian president's chief of staff, 2. They found a match to a Georgian man with close links to Ukraine, but are yet to confirm his identity. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. 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. A warden kept watch this month over prisoners of war at a camp in western Ukraine. They are not surprised by the visit of journalists. [17] Eventually, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry stated that the numbers recorded by the National Museum of Military History were the official ones, although still incomplete,[22] with 4,647 deaths (4,509 identified and 138 unidentified) cataloged by 1 December 2021. But yet it has happened. The conditions of the Russian detention facilities were described as overcrowded and dirty with insufficient lighting and heat, according to investigators. CSIS estimated Russia suffered an average of roughly 5,000 to 5,800 military fatalities per month over the first year of the war. At least 44 civilian foreign citizens from 20 countries are confirmed to have been killed during the war. WebRussia-Ukraine War: Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed a desire to meet Xi Jinping to discuss the 12-point peace proposal put forth by China to stop the Russia-Ukraine war. Look, hes still alive. WebRussian prisoners of war at the detention center canteen this month. WebFeb 4, 2023, 11:52 PM SGT. 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. Dozens of families in Central Asia "[Prigozhin] spent his whole 20s pretty much in jail. WebThese are the voices of Russian prisoners of war now held by Ukraine. A few days ago, Ukraine released the names of more than Combat deaths can be inferred from a variety of sources, including satellite imagery and video image of military actions. 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. "But you go to the front, you put in your service after six months, you're free to go.". 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