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Ukraine Accuses Russia Of Violating Geneva Convention On Treatment Of
Prisoners Of War
The Defence Ministry accuses Russian military of violating the Third
Geneva Convention, and namely large-scale violation of prisoners' of war
rights, Deputy Defence Minister Leonid Poliakov has said at Channel 5.
"In our opinion, they are violating the Third Geneva Convention, which
supposes treatment of servicemen, because they are being derided..." he
said.
Poliakov notes, they have recorded many a facts of torture and moral
coercion on the captive Ukrainian servicemen.
The Deputy Defence Minister also underlines, citizens of the Russian
Federation are displaying sadism towards the captured civilians and
military.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Russian military are holding in
captivity Navy Deputy Commander/ Coastal Defence Infantry Command
Commander Major General Ihor Voronchenko, commander of a military unit
in Sevastopol, captain II rank Viacheslav Demyanenko, Colonel Yulii
Mamchur, commander of the Sevastopol Pokryshkin Tactical Air Force
Brigade, commander of the Feodosiya Marine Battalion Colonel Dmytro
Diatslitskyi, and deputy head for dealing with the personnel Major
Rostyslav Lomtev.
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