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  1. “Most importantly, the Council must promote the establishment of the accountability mechanisms that are needed to bring Russia and Russian war criminals to justice.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  2. “That is why we are urging the Council to create effective mechanisms for monitoring Russia’s compliance with the norms of international law in order to ensure that it stops its illegal detention of Ukrainian citizens who have not passed so-called filtration; ends its practices of torture, physical violence, threats and humiliation; provides complete and comprehensive information on the location and state of health of detainees at the request of relatives and official representatives of the State of Ukraine; and provides legal protection in the event of official allegations against those persons, including access to lawyers, international monitors and, where applicable, sponsor countries.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  3. “That is why Russia must be stopped and its war criminals brought to justice. Otherwise those atrocities will continue, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians will continue to suffer and Russia will continue to do whatever it wants and invade countries whenever it wants. If it is not stopped, who knows which country it will come to liberate next?”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  4. “Basically, Russia has established a zone of complete lawlessness in the occupied territories, and by holding fake referendums and declaring those territories independent, the Government is attempting to shift the responsibility away from itself for the monstrous atrocities that are being committed there. The centres I have visited have never been independent. They are occupied by Russia, which as the occupying Power is fully responsible for adhering to the provisions of international law in those territories. Instead, Russia’s army, under Russia’s political and military leadership, is ignoring international law or twisting it completely for the purposes of its propaganda. Basically it is doing whatever it wants. Ukraine is not even the first country that Russia has invaded in the past 30 years, but Russia has always got away with it.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  5. “Moreover, based on the information that the Center for Civil Liberties collected over the past eight years, the filtration practices did not start with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February. Rather, Russia has been conducting them in the occupied territories since its first military invasion in Ukraine in 2014. It later scaled that experience to all of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. It is currently estimated that tens of thousands of Ukrainians — as many as 100,000 — are being kept in filtration camps or detention centres in areas occupied by Russia or in Russia itself. That has developed into an organized and branched system of facilities, which has been extensively covered in a recent report by Conflict Observatory that coincides in many instances with the data we possess.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  6. “But that does not even include all the civilian hostages that Russians and Russian-controlled groups in the occupied territories have illegally detained. Many are being kidnapped and taken from their homes. They just disappear from the occupied territories until we find out that they are being detained in one of many detention centres somewhere in the occupied territories or in Russia or Belarus. And those are not just rare individual cases. The Center for Civil Liberties alone — just one human rights organization — has already received information about at least 600 such cases, often from relatives of the Ukrainians who are being detained. It is a systematic, planned and organized activity.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  7. “It is not rare to hear in the testimonies of those who have passed filtration that it appears that those who failed to pass the filtration were killed. As recently published satellite images reveal, there are mass graves close to some of the filtration camps, which could mean that some of the detainees may have been killed or tortured to death. All the people who go through the so-called filtration procedures find themselves in the position of being civilian hostages, humiliated and kept in inhumane conditions, with no access to basic sanitary needs, food, water and medical care while they are tortured and witness the torture of others. They have no legal status because according to international law they cannot be held in Russia at all.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  8. “Some civilian hostages are tortured so that they will admit that they are linked to the Ukrainian military, as illustrated by the testimony provided by a survivor named Aleksei Dubrovskiy, who was taken hostage on 25 March in the Zaporizhzhya region and held in a number of different locations, including the Melitopol airport, a shed, a police station in Melitopol and a detention centre in Kursk, in Russia. He and other hostages were hit and kicked, tortured with electric shocks and forced to crawl on the floor, and given no medical assistance of any kind. As he testified, some of the torture was aimed at forcing civilians to admit that they were linked to the Ukrainian army, as if Russia needed to prepare those hostages as part of an exchange fund.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  9. “We can imagine what goes on in them from the testimonies of survivors such as 16-year-old Vadym Buriak, who was detained while attempting to leave Melitopol and kept for three months. He had to live in a prison cell without even a working toilet. Almost daily, he would hear and see the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war and then be forced to clean up the blood in the torture rooms. And that is the case when people are able to get out at all, while many have ended up like Ivan Kozlov, from Kherson. He was detained during the filtration in Crimea, according to information available to us, and has been kept in detention centres in Sevastopol and Simferopol since April. During all that time, his relatives have had no opportunity to speak to him, learn about his condition or contact him in any way.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  10. “Another story is that of a 17-year-old musician named Marya Vychenko, whose entire family went through a similar humiliating procedure at a filtration camp in Mangush. The only difference was that she was also sexually harassed during her interrogation but was spared violence because the Russian soldiers did not find her pretty enough. “Maybe the next one will be prettier”, they said to her. Meanwhile, her father had to go through all the steps of the humiliating procedure only because he had erased the data on his phone before the filtration, which the Russians did not like. Those who do not pass filtration can be detained in filtration camps for months. From there they may be sent to detention centres or prisons in the occupied territories or Russia.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  11. “His father was shot by Russian soldiers. His home city was destroyed, and, after hiding in a basement for weeks, he and his 80-year-old grandmother, who had cancer, were taken to go through the filtration process twice — first in Donetsk and then at the Russian border. There he was fingerprinted, photographed, interrogated and psychologically pressured through interrogation by a former member of the Ukrainian military, along with a Russian wearing civilian clothes and holding a baseball bat in his hands. He was also asked to give up his Ukrainian passport, but he refused and kept it. Four days later, as soon as he could, he left Russia and made his way through Georgia and Türkiye to Germany.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  12. “He realized that all his dental fillings had fallen out during his torture. While lying on the floor, he noticed brown- coloured stains. It was blood, but it was not his. It was the blood of those who had been there before him. Then Russians grabbed him and pointed to a nearby log to which handcuffs were attached. It was also covered in blood and white shards that looked like bone fragments. He was saved only by the arrival of Russian military officers who wanted him to work for them in Mariupol. However, Mr. Yakov asked if he could take his family to Russia on a pretext of his child’s need for medical care. Subsequently, the entire family managed to escape to Europe. Another story involves a 21-year-old student from Mariupol, Taras Tselenchenko, who uses his real name because he no longer has anything to lose.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  13. “When they found out that his wife was donating to the Ukrainian army, they called her a fascist and Nazi and attempted to take away their child for what they call re-education, as they often do with the children of parents whom Russia detains in the occupied territories. The desperate parents decided that they would rather kill themselves than give away their child. However, the Russians got interested in Yakov’s professional skills. They continued his interrogation by asking him questions about the defenders of Mariupol and the Azov battalion. When Mr. Yakov had nothing to say, because he did not belong to the Ukrainian military, they began beating him and repeatedly hit him in the groin. They then connected electrical contacts to his neck. When Mr. Yakov recovered after the electric shocks, he started coughing.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  14. “Basically, Russia has expanded its experience and practices into the other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine with its full-scale invasion in February. Just to give members a taste of what that process looks like for Ukrainians these days, I would like to recount some of the stories of the people who passed through filtration and were brave enough to share their stories. Some of their names have been changed for security reasons. Mr. Yakov testified that he was interrogated by Russian military intelligence officers and Russian- controlled forces in occupied Donetsk.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  15. “As of the end of August, the initiative’s database contains information pertaining to around 30 different types of crimes, including direct attacks on and damage to civilian objects; deaths and injuries caused by shelling; the use of weapons causing superfluous injury; damage to buildings dedicated to religion, education, art and science; the forced disappearance of persons; pillaging of an occupied town or place; murder; the wilful killing of civilians; illegal detention; and depriving civilians of their liberty. That last crime often takes place during so- called filtration, which includes unlawful practices that Russia has been implementing in the occupied territories of Ukraine over the past eight years, as the monitoring activities of the Center for Civil Liberties have revealed.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  16. “Ms. Drik: During the six months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Center for Civil Liberties, together with the partners from the Tribunal for Putin initiative, which is a coalition of Ukrainian human rights non-governmental organizations, has documented more than 17,000 potential international crimes committed by the Russian army in Ukraine.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source