MOSCOW, November 15./TASS/. The commission for international cooperation on human rights of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights has turned to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission and other international human rights organizations in connection with an AP photo showing people suspected of collaborating with Russia tied to poles in Kherson.

"The Associated Press photos of torture in Kherson is yet further proof of the unlawful activities of the Ukrainian security services. We urge the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the mission of the International Red Cross in Ukraine, and other international human rights and humanitarian organizations to pay attention to the facts of public torture and humiliation committed by the Ukrainian security services and give them a proper assessment," reads the appeal posted on the presidential council’s website.

The document points out that after the entry of Ukrainian troops in Kherson, a photograph from the Associated Press news agency appeared in the media, which shows local residents tied to the city's street poles. Some Western outlets, the Daily Mail for example, wrote that the photo showed people supporting Russia.

"Knowing the barbaric practice of such degradation in Ukraine - tying people to poles and exposing them to public humiliation - in this particular case we would like to draw the attention of members of international and humanitarian organizations to one important and revealing detail: the photo shows Kherson residents chained to poles with plastic handcuffs, used as riot control weapons by various Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, including the Ukrainian Security Service," the document went on to say.

"This is not scotch tape, traditionally used to tape people to lamppost for public humiliation, not a clothesline - these are means from the arsenal of special services". "This means that in the photo from an international news agency we see documentary evidence of humiliation and torture organized by the state special service of Ukraine, the Security Service," the document stressed.

The Associated Press circulated a photo on Sunday showing two individuals suspected of collaborating with Russian authorities tied to a pole in Kherson.

The description of the photo says it was taken on November 13, after the city had come under the control of the Ukrainian authorities.