MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. The group of opposition MEPs who called for closing torture prisons in Ukraine showed some real sense, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs and leader of the LDPR Party, told TASS.

Earlier, a group of deputies led by Luxembourg's Fernand Kartheiser demanded that Kiev close torture prisons throughout the country, release illegal prisoners held there, as well as the people who protested there on November 2, including a female medic and an ambulance driver detained by Kiev security forces.

"The EU deliberately conceals the atrocities of the neo-Nazis. However, the extent of the genocide of one's own people cannot but outrage sensible European politicians," Slutsky said. "This step is worthy of respect."

The parliamentarian also called Ukraine under Vladimir Zelensky "a concentration camp in the very center of Europe," where people are tortured and killed to preserve power and "a system of blood kickbacks to European sponsors." "If, after disclosing information at a high European level about blatant human rights violations, Brussels continues to defend its puppet Zelensky, the European bureaucrats are simply signing up to be directly complicit in his crimes," Slutsky said.

On November 2, reports surfaced about a basement in a private house near Kiev, where about 40 men were being held against their will. The security forces present at the scene tried to prevent both the doctor and people from entering the building, and even used special equipment, but had to retreat under pressure from the outraged crowd. The basement was used as a "secret prison" for conscripted and military personnel who had gone AWOL, and a 14-year-old teenager who accidentally wound up there. He was badly beaten.

The prisoners, many of whom had signs of beatings, were released and sent to hospitals, and head of Zelensky's office Kirill Budanov (listed in Russia as a terrorist and extremist) even admitted that there are "many such houses" in Ukraine. However, the very next day, the authorities launched a campaign to discredit the protesters, and three were sent to jail, including a female doctor who reported the basement. Currently, the narrative of "provocation" is spreading in the Ukrainian media, and the topic of "secret prisons" is being hushed up.