DONETSK, April 14. /TASS/. Ukrainian soldiers who take part in tortures of prisoners of war will be brought to criminal liability, human rights ombudswoman of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Darya Morrozova told TASS on Wednesday.
"We know who these people are, where they serve and at some point, all of them will be brought to criminal liability for their war crimes," she said.
According to Morozova, the position of international organizations, which are indifferent to tortures of prisoners in Ukraine, is perplexing. "I was shocked by representatives of Ukraine’s official structures, who call for not posting in the internet photos and videos of tortures of prisoners. They don’t say that tortures are inadmissible, they just ask not to hype these facts. I think such statements have simply buried Ukraine’s law. After that, Ukraine cannot be seen as a law-rules state," she said.
Earlier, Ukraine’s mass media posted videos of tortures of Russian and DPR soldiers. Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, drew the West’s attention to tortures of Russian prisoners of war.
Russian human rights ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova called on international organizations to push Ukraine toward observing the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s press office said earlier that Ukraine’s authorities has informed the UK Foreign Office that they would not observe the Geneva Convention while treating Russian prisoners.