For 10 years, russia has not provided any information about civilian Ukrainians held captive - Lubinets

For 10 years, russia has not provided any information about the Ukrainian civilians it has detained without any evidence and is actually holding them captive. This was stated by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets during the event "Civilians in illegal detention by russia: joint steps of the authorities and civil society for their release", reports UNN correspondent .

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russia has been abducting and imprisoning Ukrainian civilians since early 2014. Even then, the russians began to detain civilians without any evidence, holding them effectively captive. By doing so, the russians are violating international humanitarian law. There is a direct provision in Article 3 of the Geneva Convention that prohibits taking civilians hostage. We all know about it, but russia continues to do it. The problem is probably that there is no responsibility for violating this rule. For 10 years, Ukraine has been raising the issue of additionally opening the process of criminal prosecution of the highest military and political leadership of the russian federation for the illegal detention of Ukrainian civilians. 10 years russia does not provide any information about civilians

Lubinets added that Ukraine has repeatedly used communication channels to raise issues regarding Ukrainian civilians.

Unfortunately, we have no results. Because we cannot receive any information from the russian federation, we do not have the exact number of those illegally detained by the aggressor country. The situation has critically deteriorated after the large-scale invasion of

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Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, more than 3,000 prisoners of warhave been returned to Ukraine, including both military personnel and civilians.