Director of Poltava pre-trial detention centre arrested in absentia in Moscow

The Savelovsky Court in Moscow has arrested Oleksii Domashov, director of the pre-trial detention centre in Poltava, Ukraine, in absentia. He is charged with ill-treating prisoners of war.

Source: Russian state news agency TASS

Details: Domashov is threatened with two months of arrest if the Russian occupiers manage to capture him.

At the end of April, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened criminal cases concerning violations of the laws and customs of war against the directors of pre-trial detention centres in Kyiv (No. 13), Poltava (No. 23) and Kropyvnytskyi. The law enforcement officers allegedly contributed to torture and threats with respect to at least 20 Russian prisoners of war.

The press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation got mixed up and noted that the city of Kropyvnytskyi is apparently located in Mykolaiv Region.

Apparently these "facts" came directly from the mouths of the Russian servicemen, who were exchanged as part of a prisoner exchange. It is possible that one of the released prisoners did not pay attention to where he was, and thus misled the investigators about Kropyvnytskyi being in Mykolaiv Region.

Background: The Russian occupation troops continue their tactics of terror and abuse against the local unarmed population in Ukraine, which are war crimes and crimes against humanity. The most egregious cases of crimes committed by the Russian invaders were recorded in Bucha, Irpin and Borodianka in Kyiv Region, and in the villages around Izium in Kharkiv Region.

The Russian invaders have raped not only adults in the occupied territories, but also children, even babies, as well as elderly people.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, more than 3,800 people have been killed in Ukraine at the hands of Russian occupiers. Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova reported that more than 5,000 criminal proceedings have been initiated against the Russian military due to violations of the laws and customs of war.

However, Russia’s investigative committee is only prepared to investigate the so-called "instances of torture" in the non-existent "city of Kropyvnytskyi in Mykolaiv Region," and not the barbaric methods of warfare employed by the "Russian liberators".

Furthermore, in March, a number of Russian prisoners of war stated at a press conference in Kyiv that they were being treated properly, and some of them said they did not want to return to Russia because their lives were worse there than in captivity in Ukraine.