28,000 Ukrainian civilians are held captive by the Russian Federation

The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Dmytro Lubinets, said that 28,000 Ukrainian civilians are currently held captive by the occupiers.

He said this during a speech at the international conference on human rights “Freedom or Fear”.

The ombudsman spoke about the conditions in which prisoners are kept. People lose tens of kilograms of weight, are in critical condition and undergo long rehabilitation. Eyewitnesses who were captured and returned say that the Russians feed the prisoners with something similar to dyed water.

“The largest officially recorded weight loss of a person during 5 months of Russian captivity is 77 kilograms,” Lubinets notes.

Currently, Ukraine does not have the opportunity to find out where the captured Ukrainians are and to establish their exact number.