The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said there was evidence that Russia tortured or ill-treated captured Ukrainian soldiers, but the Russian side did not allow access to the United Nations and others.
Matilda Bogner, an investigator at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told her press briefing that "the actions or treatment of some prisoners of war by Russia may constitute war crimes."
According to the UN, testimonies have been obtained from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that some Ukrainian prisoners of war suffered severe beatings as they entered the detention facilities as a rite of passage.
In the case of the Olenivka Prison Camp in Ukraine, where a shelling incident at the end of July killed 55 people, there were reports that the prisoners suffered from infectious diseases such as hepatitis A and tuberculosis.
Allegations that Russia is abusing Ukrainian prisoners of war have been raised several times since the start of the war in February, but the Russian side has completely denied it.
Russian Kremlin spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that "we don't know who approached the military. We don't have enough information so we can't comment."
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