Russia has established a network of torture chambers for Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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June 8, 2025
According to Mykola Polozov, co-founder of the “Search. Captivity” initiative, there are at least five secret prisons in Russia holding Ukrainian POWs, which human rights defenders discovered only in the fourth year of the full-scale war. These facilities have no official addresses or procurement records and may be sites of torture and sexual violence.
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Inferno is an independent platform documenting prisons where Ukrainian prisoners of war are held by Russia. We collect and systematise open-source data to expose the full scale of abuse and human rights violations.
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