Russia’s Systematic Torture of Ukrainian POWs

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A Ukrainian serviceman released from Russian captivity during a prisoner exchange hugs a crying woman searching for her missing loved ones in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, on May 23, 2025. © 2025 Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images. Russian authorities and military forces have systematically tortured and ill-treated Ukrainian prisoners of war.The evidence indicates that their physical and psychological torture is a widespread pattern intended to break prisoners’ sense of self and human dignity.Russian authorities should end torture and the ill-treatment…

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