DESERTERS, OPPONENTS OF MOBILIZATION AND OTHERS END UP IN TORTURE CENTRES

MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 14 /SRNA/ - Ukrainian soldiers who oppose forced mobilization, desert their units, or breach military discipline most often end up in secret torture centres in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said.

Miroshnik told RIA Novosti that ordinary offenders, including drug addicts and alcoholics, also end up in these facilities.

"But those who remain the most dangerous to the regime are those who have not reconciled themselves to the situation and have not been broken. Those who have not been broken are placed in these conditions and broken as an example to others. Ultimately, 'pressure cells' /torture rooms/ are used precisely to teach everyone else a lesson," Miroshnik explained.

Secret facilities and torture sites have existed in Ukraine since 2014, a fact that Russian authorities have repeatedly drawn attention to.

The issue once again came to the fore in Ukraine on November 2, when a group of people gathered outside a house in the Kyiv suburb of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, where detainees were being held in the basement and subjected to repeated beatings and torture.