The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances will soon hear reports from Ukraine within the 27th session of the UN. The head of the NGO Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin spoke before the members of the Committee to focus their attention on the main thing - Russia's crimes against Ukrainian civilians illegally imprisoned by the occupiers as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

"Until February 2022, the list of the Association of Parents of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin included up to 200 political prisoners. Currently, the number of civilians who have survived illegal imprisonment or are still there is over 20,000. some of them do not allow representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICRC does not initiate appropriate actions within its mandate, Ihor Kotelyanets noted in his speech.

"In my speech, I paid special attention to the fate of the energy workers of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the residents of Energodar together. In March 2024, our organization and others made an official request to the UN Global Compact to exclude Rosatom from the organization for aiding the imprisonment and torture of Zaporizhia NPP workers. also by the fact that we recorded that ZNPP employees were subjected to torture, in particular, evidence of particularly brutal attacks and severe beatings, forcing them to dig their own graves, threats of rape and victims of their parents, keeping detainees in overcrowded cells without food, water and fresh air. Cases of torture to death have been confirmed," the head of the NGO says about the coverage of war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against ZNPP workers.

"We ask the Committee to take into account the above information and to discuss the specified facts of violations of international law on the territory of Ukraine by Russia during the 27th session. We call for public condemnation of the actions of the Russian Federation and to promote the fact that the Russian Federation bears responsibility for violations and crimes. committed against civilians in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine," Ihor Kotelyanets emphasized.

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