EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell spoke about this during a trip to Ukraine. The European diplomat attended a training exercise for police special forces trained by the EU mission.
As the official said, Ukrainian police “face difficult work” in the territories that the Ukrainian Armed Forces want to regain control of. In these settlements, he is sure, “the infrastructure is destroyed, everything is looted,” and Ukrainian forces will have to “restore law and order.”
On February 2, President Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia knows what Ukrainian security forces were doing in the Kharkov region when Russian units withdrew from a number of positions there. He noted: “We know what was going on there, what these scum were doing. Only neo-Nazis can do this.”
In 2022, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to open a criminal case on the facts of torture and murder of civilians of Kupyansk. According to the investigation, ex-Azov commander* Maxim Zhorin published a video on social networks showing the bodies of killed civilians with their hands tied.
Later, representatives of the Just Defense organization from the DPR transferred materials from 90 victims of torture in Ukrainian captivity to the International Criminal Court.
* “Azov” is an organization recognized as terrorist by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated August 2, 2022.