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Human Rights Watch: Russians have systematically tortured Ukrainian POWs

Human Rights Watch, the international human rights organisation, has published a report based on testimonies of former Ukrainian prisoners of war. The organisation states that Russian authorities and military forces have systematically tortured and ill-treated Ukrainian POWs.

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Russians executed five captured Ukrainian soldiers

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that Russian military personnel deliberately shot Ukrainian soldiers who were in captivity. It occurred on the morning of November 27, 2025, in the direction of Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region.

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Russia withdraws from the Convention against torture

Russian President Putin has signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The document was published on the official legal information portal of the Russian Federation.

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OSCE experts have published a report on Russia’s crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war

An independent mission of experts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has published a report on Russia's treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war. The report by experts of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism is a comprehensive international document focusing on the systematic nature of Russia's crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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Russia has established a network of torture chambers for Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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.

268 Ukrainian POWs Executed by Russian Forces – Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office Investigates

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, at least 268 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been executed by Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion.

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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.

We rely on verified sources: testimonies of released POWs, investigative journalism, official documents, human rights reports, and open databases.

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