Ukrainian prisoner of war on imprisonment in Russia: “We ate mice”

War crimes

Ukrainian prisoner of war: “We ate mice and toilet paper”

Vladislaw Zadorin was captivated in Russian for years. He experienced torture, abuse and hunger, as he now reports in an interview.

The scene at the beginning of the Russian attack in February 2022 wrote history worldwide. The Russian Navy asked the Ukrainian soldiers on the small snake island in the Black Sea. They replied to them: “Russian warship, fuck yourself!”

Shortly afterwards, the Ukrainians still had to result. One of the Ukrainian soldiers was Vladislaw Zadorin. He was released from the Russian captivity and reported on torture and humiliation by the Russian soldiers. “We were constantly beaten for it,” Zadorin said in an interview with the broadcaster Radio Swoboda.

The released prisoner of war reported on inhuman conditions: Zadorin originally weighed 120 kilos and lost half of his weight in captivity. He and fellow prisoners would have had “three slices of black bread a day, mixed with sawdust or sand,” said Zadorin. The worst was hunger, said Zadorin. “We ate mice, toilet paper, detergent, snails, worms – everything we could eat.”

In April 2022, the Ukrainian Navy sank the Russian warship “Moskwa”. After that, the Ukrainian prisoners were beaten by Russian soldiers in such a way that they flown through the corridors like “pillows”. Another method: blows in the abdomen. Zadorin reported: “If they hit us with a rubber stock, they came to us and asked questions: ‘Do you like foie grass? Have you ever eaten foie grass?’ And if you affirmed that, they hit your liver. “

According to Zadorin, there were also “many rapes and castrations”. According to his own statements, he suffered vertebral damage, a head injury and got bladder and eye problems. He also occasionally has problems with seeing.

The rights of prisoners of war are anchored in the Geneva Convention, most recently supplemented in 1977. According to this: “Prisoners of war must not be prosecuted to participate directly in the hostilities. Their detention is not a form of punishment. The purpose of the same is rather to prevent their further participation in the conflict.”