A recent report by U.N.-backed human rights experts has revealed new evidence of widespread and systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian authorities. The Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine highlighted the 'horrific treatment' of POWs, including beatings, verbal abuse, electric shocks, and deprivation of food and water at various sites in Russia.
The commission emphasized that such practices could amount to war crimes and pointed to the ongoing civilian suffering resulting from the conflict that began more than two years ago when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine.
