Captive ukrainians are forced to join the Russian army

Some Ukrainians have been held for weeks without being charged.

This is reported by FreeDOM.

For example, as of the end of November, there were about 10 women and at least 50-60 men, citizens of Ukraine, in the Simferopol detention centre. They were captured in the temporarily occupied territories and taken to Crimea. Some of them are accused of terrorism by the FSB.

There are cases when imprisoned Ukrainian prisoners of war are forced to sign a refusal to exchange. In exchange, they are promised a visit from their loved ones and a pardon. The visit is allowed, then they are given a Russian passport and sent to fight for the Russian Federation.

Olga Romanova, director of the Sitting Russia Foundation, said that it is not only Ukrainian prisoners of war but also captured civilians. There are at least several hundred of them. Many of them have been in Russian prisons since March. They are not allowed to see either a lawyer or representatives of humanitarian organizations.

There are also Ukrainian prisoners from the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions who have been kidnapped by the occupiers. Now they are being offered to fight in the Wagner PMCs against Ukraine.

There is also a category of Ukrainian citizens who have not been filtered. These are often people who once served in the AFU or the police. The Russian Federation considers them prisoners of war, but in fact they are civilians.

Now two very strange formations are being formed in Horlivka: the Bogdan Khmelnytskyy division and the Kovpak partisan detachment. Ukrainian citizens who were in penal colonies are being recruited there," says Olga Romanova about the bandit formations.

They lure them there with promises to see their loved ones. Why do the Russians need our prisoners? From Russian prisons fewer and fewer convicts want to go to fight in the Wagner PMC.

The human rights activist stresses that even Ukrainians with disabilities are being held captive by the Russians.