Oleh Hushchyn: russia detains Ukrainian prisoners in over 300 facilities with no access to human rights monitors

russia is holding Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians in more than 300 detention facilities, including sites in the temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine and even in Belarus, with no access granted to international organizations or human rights groups.

This was reported by Oleh Hushchyn, representative of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, during a briefing at the Media Center Ukraine. 

“How many detention facilities for Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians do you think there are in russia and the occupied territories? Five, maybe ten, twenty? A hundred? Three hundred?” Hushchyn said. “Ukraine has five prisoner-of-war camps and five temporary detention centers. All of them are fully open and accessible to human rights organizations, international institutions, the ICRC, the UN, and others. russia, on the other hand, operates 300 facilities, including those in the occupied territories and in the Republic of Belarus, with zero access granted to any of these bodies. Not the Red Cross, not the UN, not the OSCE, not even independent human rights defenders,” he emphasized.

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