The Russians invented a new type of psychological torture for captured Ukrainians, Lubinets

The Russians continue to terrorize the Ukrainian population. The occupiers invented a new method of psychological torture of captured Ukrainians.

The ombudsman said that the occupiers take out Ukrainian prisoners from places of detention allegedly for exchange, and then return them to the colonies. At the same time, the invaders say that Ukraine refuses to exchange them.

What are the actions of the authorities

In Ukraine, this is considered a form of psychological torture. Lubinets emphasized that Ukraine did not refuse a single person offered by the Russian side for exchange.

In addition, the ombudsman reminded that Ukraine constantly raises the issue of the treatment of our prisoners at the international level.

Thanks to this pressure, housing conditions have recently improved. According to Lubinets, this is evidenced by those who returned from captivity.

Ukraine returns its citizens from captivity: briefly

• A 16-year-old boy who was illegally taken to Russia was returned to Ukraine. The boy lived on the territory of the aggressor state for more than 8 months.
• As part of the exchange of prisoners, on December 14, a priest of the UOC MP was handed over to Russia. Instead, it was possible to return a US citizen kidnapped in the Kherson region.
• On the same day, 64 servicemen of the Armed Forces returned home. They fought in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions. In particular, they defended Bakhmut from Russian aggression.
• The preliminary exchange of prisoners took place on December 6. On Armed Forces Day, another 60 soldiers returned home. We are talking about military personnel of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, the State Security Service – 58 men and 2 women. Among those released are 15 officers and 45 privates and sergeants.

In the occupied territories, the Russians planned in advance the murders, tortures and interrogations of influential local residents in order to suppress any resistance. With threats, the Russians tried to force other Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories to inform and cooperate.

Journalists documented 61 cases across Ukraine, drawing on lists of names from Russians obtained by Ukrainian authorities, photographic evidence of the crimes, Russian media reports, and interviews with dozens of victims, families and friends, as well as Ukrainian officials and activists.

According to survivors, some victims were held in detention centers where they were interrogated, beaten and electrocuted. Some got to the Russian Federation, others died.

In three cases recorded by journalists, the Russians forced people to inform on others. In addition, the occupiers kidnapped family members, including children, to exert pressure.

“These lists are part of a growing body of evidence that most of the violence in Ukraine was planned, not random. “Russia has used brutality as a strategy of war, developed and implemented in the command structures of its military and intelligence services,” the article says.

According to US intelligence and British analysts, Russian intelligence spent months compiling hit lists before the February 24 invasion.

For the first time in Ukraine, torture chambers of Russians for children were recorded – ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.

At the same time, Ukrainian spies talked about the fact that in the summer of 2021, the unit of the Russian special service, which was engaged in planning the subjugation and occupation of Ukraine — the Ninth Department of the Fifth Service of the FSB — became more active.

The agents classified influential Ukrainians as “potential collaborators or unreliable persons.”

“This political strategy of targeted killings was driven from a very high level in the Kremlin,” said Jack Watling, a senior fellow at the Royal Joint Institute for Defense Studies.

The Russians shelled Kramatorsk with missiles: a boarding school was hit

People were not injured. The Russian occupiers hit Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, with rockets. Local authorities are asking residents of the city to stay in shelters.

This was reported by the chairman Oleksandr Honcharenko.

“Orcs are attacking Kramatorsk. The danger has not passed, stay in shelters,” the message reads.

The President’s Office specified that the occupiers launched two rocket strikes on the city. One Russian rocket hit the boarding school building, the other hit the industrial zone of one of the city’s enterprises. There were no casualties.

The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, spoke about the consequences of the strikes of the Russian army on Kramatorsk, Kurakhovo and Chasovoy Yar in the afternoon on Thursday, December 22.

He said that as a result of enemy attacks, only civilian infrastructure was damaged, and the occupiers were carrying out targeted strikes.

So, about 15 shells flew down Chasovoy Yar. As a result, one person died and two others were injured. In Kramatorsk, Russian troops hit the territory of the enterprise and one of the schools, and there were no casualties.

The consequences of the shelling of Kurakhovo are still being established.

Kyrylenko called on residents of the region to evacuate.

The situation at the front in Donetsk remains the most difficult. Fierce battles are taking place in the Bakhmut area, the Russian army is trying to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of shelling of Donetsk, 3 coal mining enterprises were cut off.

Mines named after Skochinsky, the “Lidiivka” mine and the mine named after Abakumov, which are part of the main police department of the DРR “Donetsk Coal Energy Company”.

According to preliminary information in the mine workings of the mine named after Skochinsky was home to 104 people. There were 104 people in Skochinsky, and 3.4 in the “Lidiivka” mine.

21 strikes on Donetsk region – the police document the consequences of Russia’s military aggression.

During the day, 10 settlements were shelled. The occupiers injured civilians, the police of Donetsk region reported.

The enemy covered Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Liman, Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka, Toretsk, the town of Velika Novosilka, New York, the villages of Vremivka, Kurakhivka with fire.

23 civilian objects were destroyed and damaged – 17 residential buildings, a school, a factory, a store, an outbuilding, and cars.

Missile strikes from the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were recorded on Kostyantynivka, Lyman and Pokrovsk. Infrastructure objects and houses were destroyed. According to preliminary information, no one was injured.

The occupiers launched an airstrike on Velika Novosilka. Avdiivka was covered from “Grady”. There was no information on casualties and damage.

As a result of artillery and mortar shelling, we have injured people in Bakhmut and Toretsk.

The incidence of viral infections is increasing in Mariupol. It is not known for certain whether this is an epidemic of SARS, whether it is the flu, or a coronavirus. But whole families of people get sick.

“In our family, my son first got sick, then I, then my parents,” Inna K. said.

The official statistics of the occupiers also confirm the information about the epidemic. According to the reports of the occupiers, 1,390 cases of SARS were registered last week, including 792 children.

According to the sanitary doctors of the Mariupol laboratory center, the number of patients has increased both among adults and among children. “Cases of hospitalization of patients with complications from SARS are being registered. Last week, 80 cases of influenza type A and B were detected. Thirty patients had to be hospitalized,” she notes.

The occupiers also talk about the so-called “atypical pneumonia” – 238 residents of Mariupol fell ill.

According to SES data, 7,410 cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Mariupol since the beginning of this year.

However, we cannot trust this information, since a large part of Mariupol residents do not have access to medical care, cannot physically reach medical facilities. People engage in self-medication.

In social networks, people are asking about medicines that can be used to treat these “atypical pneumonias”. People prescribe Russian-made antibiotics and antiviral drugs of dubious characteristics to each other.

The state of health of Mariupol residents is affected by the damp and cold weather that has settled in Mariupol. A large part of the city remains without heating.

In Severodonetsk, the occupiers continue to break into the homes of residents who left the city.

According to the “administration” of the “lnr” grouping, it is planned to open apartments at a number of addresses. The owners are offered to appear in the “administration” and give consent to move into their residential premises or sign a refusal. The list includes apartments on Velesov, Gagarin, Donetska, Kosmonavtiv, Novikov, Kurchatov streets, on Gvardiyskyi Avenue.

This is the fourth part of the list of housing that the occupants take from the owners. Last time, in the third part, the apartments on Gvardiysky Avenue, Gagarina Street were indicated. That list was published in early December.