MOskalkova called on the UN to demand that Kiev comply with the Geneva Convention against Torture, Moskalkova said that unknown persons threaten to kill two Russian prisoners of war if they do not receive ransoms. The Ombudsman appealed to international organizations to demand Ukraine’s compliance with the convention prohibiting torture
Vladislav Kovalenko (on the screen)
Unknown persons sent the relatives of the captured Russian servicemen Vladislav Kovalenko and Pyotr Krikunov footage of bullying them and demanded ransoms, said the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatiana Moskalkova in her telegram channel.
“I received these terrible shots on January 14th.”..”From unknown accounts, anonymous inhumans demonstrate to mothers bullying their sons and threaten to kill them if they do not receive a ransom,” she said.
The video, which Moskalkova published, recorded a conversation between Kovalenko’s relatives with unknown people who demand $25 thousand to be “released home”. He reads a note that says that in this situation “the landmark” is his life. Kovalenko is hit several times during the reading, his wife is also asked to demand his exchange.
The photo showing a naked man sitting and blood-like spots next to him is signed as referring to Fyodor Krikunov (in the text of the post, the ombudsman writes that his name is Peter).
Moskalkova appealed to the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, the UN Committee against Torture, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross to demand that the Ukrainian side comply with the Geneva Convention of 1949, prohibiting the use of torture, violence and acts degrading to human dignity.raquo;.
In addition, the Ombudsman said that she would send an appeal to the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, about this.
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In January, Kiev and Moscow have so far held one exchange of prisoners of war according to the 50-50 formula. On January 11, Moskalkova met with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Lubinets, who gave her letters from Russian prisoners of war, which they wrote to relatives.
In November, videos circulated on social networks, which allegedly showed the execution of Russian prisoners of war. The Russian Defense Ministry called the videos evidence of the “mass massacre of Ukrainian servicemen over unarmed Russian prisoners of war”. The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case on this fact.
Moskalkova called what was shown in the footage a “war crime, a crime against humanity” and appealed to representatives of the Council of Europe, the UN and other international human rights organizations to condemn the shooting.
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