MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. Western countries have an interest in prolonging the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and will ignore the "secret prison" near Kiev, as they do other crimes by the Kiev regime, Natalya Nikonorova, deputy chair of the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee and former foreign minister of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), told TASS.
"Something tells me that the West will turn a blind eye to this incident, as well as to many other crimes Ukraine has committed against people. After all, Kiev's European handlers appear to have the greatest stake in what is happening. They do not care how their plan to fight to the last Ukrainian is carried out," the senator said.
She added that evidence of similar prisons in Ukraine had emerged from parts of the DPR still controlled by Kiev, including Kramatorsk. After Mariupol's liberation, the existence of a torture chamber called the "Library" at its airport came to light.
"They exist throughout Ukraine. We have consistently reported these facts since 2014. We tried every available means to inform the public worldwide about the Kiev regime's atrocities, appealing to the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross - TASS) and the OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - TASS). Information about such 'secret Ukrainian Security Service prisons' appears in the office's reports for 2016 and 2023, and this spring, the existence of a network of unofficial detention sites in at least seven regions of Ukraine and in Kiev-controlled parts of the DPR was officially confirmed," Nikonorova noted.
Torture facility near Kiev
On November 2, Ukrainian media started publishing reports about a basement in a private house near Kiev where around 40 men were being forcibly held. Security personnel at the scene tried to prevent doctors and people who had gathered outside from entering the building, even using crowd-control equipment, but were forced to back down under pressure from the angry crowd. It turned out later that the basement was being used as a "secret prison" for mobilized men and troops caught absent without leave. Those held included a 14-year-old boy who had ended up there by chance. The boy had been badly beaten.
Those held captive, many of whom showed signs of beatings, were released and taken to hospitals. The head of Zelensky's office even acknowledged that Ukraine has "many such houses." However, the very next day, the authorities launched a campaign to discredit the protesters, and three were placed in pretrial detention, including the female medical worker who had reported the basement. Ukrainian media are now supporting a narrative that the incident was a provocation, staying quiet about "secret prisons.".