In Mariupol, Russians execute and torture officials who refused to cooperate - the mayor

ALONA MAZURENKO —  FRIDAY, 3 JUNE 2022, 14:14

In the Mariupol district, occupiers are imprisoning and shooting Ukrainian volunteers and officials who have refused to cooperate with collaborators and the occupying authorities.

Source: Mariupol City Council, quoting Mayor Vadym Boichenko, Interfax-Ukraine

Quote: The "fake court of the DPR" [self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic] sentenced the head of one of the Azov villages to 10 years in prison.

At least one civil servant was executed by firing squad.

Dozens of volunteers are also being held in the Olenivka prison. In March-April, they helped evacuate Mariupol residents and tried to deliver food and water to the besieged city.

A Ukrainian judge is also awaiting the verdict from the fake republic. There are reports of her being tortured."

Details: At a press conference on 3 June, Boichenko said that the occupiers were imposing "sentences" on those who were taken prisoner and refused to work with the occupiers.

According to him, the minimum term of such imprisonment is 10 years.

The mayor of Mariupol added that "thousands of Mariupol residents and people from the region" are in the [newly] established prisons in the occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast.

According to Boichenko, the captured people are being held in terrible conditions: "This is a 2 by 3 (metres - ed.) cell, and 10-15 men or women are being held in it. They are allowed to go to the toilet once a day; they are given something resembling food once a day and they are given water."