The ICC's priority for this year and next year will be the block on torture of Ukrainians in places of detention
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The International Criminal Court prioritizes the investigation of torture of Ukrainians by Russians in detention centers. Ukraine emphasizes that this is a systemic policy of the Russian Federation, not isolated cases.
The priority of the International Criminal Court for this year and next year will be a large block on torture of Ukrainians by Russians in places of detention. This was announced by Yuriy Belousov, Head of the Department for Combating Crimes in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General's Office, during an event dedicated to the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Olenivka: “Olenivka is a place of Russian war crime”, reports UNN correspondent .
For this year and next year, in addition to the deportation of our children and attacks on our energy structure, the next major block of the International Criminal Court's priorities is torture in places of detention. For the ICC, what is happening in places of detention in the occupied territories of Ukraine and in Russia is evidence of a systemic policy of the Russians. For us, it is also
He noted that Ukraine is trying to convey to the world that Russians are torturing Ukrainian civilians and military.
These are not isolated cases, this is a whole filtering system
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Yuriy Belousov, head of the Department for Combating Crimes in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said that the investigation is considering several versions of the terrorist attack in the colony in Olenivka, where 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and more than 70 were injured, but the main version is that a thermobaric charge was detonated, given the consequences.
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During the explosion on the night of July 29, 2022, which occurred on the territory of the former penal colony in the village of Olenivka in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, a building where Ukrainian prisoners of war were held was destroyed.
On July 7, 2023, Ukraine managed to return the bodies of prisoners of war who died as a result of a terrorist attack in a colony in the occupied village of Olenivka in Donetsk region. Most of the bodies have been identified.
The UN rejected Russian claimsthat Ukrainian prisoners of war killed in Olenivka were killed by a Ukrainian HIMARS strike.
