Filtration camp for torturing Ukrainian POWs uncovered in Belarus
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The exact location of the filtration camp in Belarus, where Ukrainian prisoners were tortured, has been revealed. The camp was organized on the territory of a state-owned enterprise.
This is stated in a journalistic investigation published by Radio Liberty on Thursday, November 28.
Filtration camp in Belarus for Ukrainian prisoners
At the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Russian military set up a filtration camp in the Belarusian town of Narovlya. Ukrainians who were captured were held there and tortured. We are talking about both military and civilians. Detainees were tortured and forced to appear in propaganda videos.
The Schemes journalists, in cooperation with their colleagues from the Belarusian Investigative Center, the Belarusian edition of Radio Liberty, and with the support of The Reckoning Project and the Cyber Partisans hacker group, established his exact location. This was possible thanks to the analysis of propaganda videos with prisoners.
"The footage showed the area, including a building with a destroyed roof, military vehicles and several large army tents ," the statement said.
The journalists showed the same footage to former prisoners. They confirmed that they were held there.
"After comparing the video with satellite images, the journalists found out that the "camp" was located on the basis of one of the buildings belonging to the Belarusian state-owned enterprise Pripyat Alliance," the report says.
To recap, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation into the shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian invaders. It happened near Novodarivka in Zaporizhzhia.
The wife of the captured defender, Nadiia, took part in the FreeAzov action in Kyiv. The woman said that her son last saw his father when he was one year old, and now the boy is four.
