According to the traces of brother graves. American samples that Russia created in the DPR more than 20 filtration points for Ukrainians
American project Conflict Observatorycreated by the US State Department to document military events on the part of Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine, published a report stating that the patrol inspection in the DPR has more than 20 filtration camps that are used for interrogation and detention of Ukrainian citizens and prisoners of war.
Experts from Yale University, the Smithsonian Institution and the company PlanetScape Ai, which is engaged in developments in the field of artificial intelligence. During the check, they also used a mapping program Esri.
Filtration
After studying satellite imagery and data from open sources, the authors of the report came to the conclusion that individual emissions for Ukrainians – a total coverage of 21 objects – are part of a whole “filtering system” that Russia and the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic deployed on the territory they occupied.
As a result of the analysis of the constituents, there are four types of objects:
- conditional registration;
- isolation wards for detainees;
- re-request centers;
- in conditions of detention.
The location and purpose of all objects reported, it is said that it is about “as a maximum number of five identified sources of oil.” According to observations, they live in the villages of Bezymennoye, Bugas, Kazatskoye, Mangush, Nikolskoye, Starobeshevo, Vasilievka, Yelenovka and the cities of Dokuchaevsk, Novoazovsk, Enakievo, Volnovakha and Donetsk.
In some cases, finding the location of an object, or proof that the site was used as a filtration camp (such as the presence of tents and buses), used satellite maps.
If correctional colonies are mainly used for long-term detention, then conditional filtration of the system is equipped in schools, penalties are levied, in the House of Culture, in the market and police stations.
Mediazona noted that the Ukrainians detained in the Russian-controlled territory required filtration, during which checks were found to see if they had been incurred by the Ukrainian army or law enforcement agencies: they demanded to show phones and tattoos on their bodies, they were forced to take fingerprints and take pictures.
“In general, all those unfiltered people who end up in the DPR, who fall into such one big black hole – there are no lawyers who are ready to work with endless cases, there are no any correct systems, these people would have disappeared into the desert by chance” , – a reverse human rights activist of the Moscow Helsinki Group Roman Kiselev.
Graves in Yelenovka
After examining satellite imagery, the observations also point to sightings of dug up soil in a “correctional colony” near the village of Yelenovka in the Volnovakhsky District, which they believe is mass graves. They note that on the night of July 28-29, traces of shelling of the territory of the colony were found, as a result of which 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed.
One site appeared in the April 11th imagery – “simultaneously with message from open sources about the alleged digging of graves, ”the report says, the second on July 27, two days before the explosion.
“Behind the barracks, where [российские военные] kept prisoners of war, there are structures similar to graves that arose in detainees at a time when, according to information about the released prisoners, they were digging graves – told Wired one of the statistical laboratories of the humanities and the professor at the Yale School of Deep Relations Nathaniel Raymon – and these objects are about two to two and a half meters in the ground.
Russia claimed that the colony was hit by a rocket launcher HIMARSgiven to the US. Interviewed CNN what if the shelling was carried out from HIMARSHit targets at a distance of up to 300 kilometers and there is no need to use a fairly expensive weapon to hit a target that is only 15 kilometers from the front.
Ukraine accessoriesthat the Russians staged shelling to cover up torture and executions.
Colony No. 120 in Yelenovka began to be used for keeping prisoners back in 2014. After the start of the Russian invasions in August 2022, captured non-combatants began to be transported to the camp. Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryuko arguedthat in May, the colony could contain “three or four participants who were recognized as unreliable and did not pass the filter.”
“Media History” told about 32 abductees in Mariupol, who brought humanitarian aid to the city and facilitated the evacuation from it. They spent 100 days in captivity, they managed to catch almost all the volunteers abducted in Mariupol.
Volunteers faced the circumstances of detention in colonies and torture, which they brought to justice during interrogations.
“Almost at all meetings we are blindfolded. They wrapped our eyes and hands with scotch tape, put bags on our heads. We were led face to the floor like terrorists. If we didn’t sit like that, didn’t stand like that, or our guards didn’t like something, they beat us. If I sat incorrectly, they beat me on the legs. If I lowered my arms, they hit me on the arm,” recalled one of them, Konstantin Velichko.
According to volunteer Anna Vorzheva, “drinking water was especially scarce”: “We measured the amount of water in the amount of 150-200 milliliters per day. Sometimes we don’t even get it.”
Former prisoners of detention, that there were no medicines or doctors in the colony. “Nobody got sick, even those who had a crushed jaw, broken legs. I had to start smoking because it was the only way to relieve the pain. I got arches from braces, because of this, all my cheeks are scarred from the inside, ”Vorozheva turned.
Violation of human rights and Russian surveillance
The total number of people who passed through the filtration system is not given in full, the authors of the study say. In the report on the results and data of the dismissed due to false messages Ombudswoman of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova, who, by mid-June, at least 1.7 million world Ukrainians were taken to Russia, including 276 thousand children, including more than 550 thousand children.
It is also unknown how many people are now held in filtration facilities. “We do not evaluate only on the basis of geodata and OSINThow many people are in connection and how many have passed through [лагеря]. It is methodologically impossible.” He speaks Nathaniel Raymond.
The Russian authorities reject the functions of filtration camps. In March, at the Russian Embassy in the United States commented reports about the camps in Mariupol are as follows: “We are talking about inspection points for civilians, causing active actions. The servicemen of the RF Armed Forces in many sabotage operations of the Ukrainian national battalions reliably inspect vehicles, heading to safe regions. We will detain all bandits and fascists. There are no barriers for private individuals to the civilian population.”
Today the embassy commented on the report itself, naming his “another fake aimed at discrediting the Russian special operation.”
However, the Russian filtration system, which includes extrajudicial arrests and incommunicado detention, includes international aggression. humanitarian law, doctors say.
The authors of the report identify five main problems related to the violation of human rights in the occupied territories:
- accusation of detention in cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions of detention, as well as torture;
- aggressive displacement (deportation) for the development of Russia;
- the separation of families and the spread of children;
- forced labor;
- large-scale collection of personal data.
They call for observers to be given access to filtration tanks in the territories of the DPR and inside Russia.
In early August, a few days after the advance of Ukrainian prisoners in the Yelenovka colony, the International Committee of the Red Cross complained that the DPR authorities did not allow employees to enter medical facilities and do not take medicine for the wounded.
Editor: Agata Shcheglova