‘Many’ Ukrainians handed over to Kyiv by Moscow ‘tortured’ in captivity – Yahoo News

“Absolutely all” exchanged Ukrainians “need psychological rehabilitation,” the authorities said. A detention sometimes lasting several weeks. “Many” of Ukrainians handed over to Kyiv by Moscow in a major POW exchange were “brutally tortured” in captivity, a senior Ukrainian official said on Thursday. “Many of them were brutally tortured “, declared at a press conference Kyrylo Boudanov, in charge of the intelligence department within the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, without giving details on the nature of these alleged tortures. According to him, there are also ” people whose physical condition is more or less normal apart from chronic undernourishment due to the poor conditions of detention. in Russia, he added, he who participated in the organization of this exchange. According to the Minister of the Interior Denys Monastyrsky, “absolutely all” exchanged Ukrainians “need rehabilitation p Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday carried out the largest exchange of military prisoners since the start of the Russian invasion in late February. the city of Mariupol, a symbol of resistance to the Russian invasion. In exchange, Moscow obtained 55 Russians and a former Ukrainian MP Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Original article published on BFMTV.comVIDEO – War in Ukraine: In liberated Ukrainian villages, residents claim to have been tortured