Worried About The Fate Of Its Soldiers Captured By Ukraine, Russia Wants To Hold An Emergency UN Security Council Meeting On Prisoners Of War

Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Director of the Russian National Defense Management Center. (Twitter: @mod_russia)

JAKARTA - Russia is concerned that its soldiers captured by Ukraine are not in good condition, urging an international meeting on prisoners of war to be held.

Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of Russia's National Defense Management Center, said his party had reason to believe its members arrested in Ukraine were not doing well.

"Russia has every reason to believe that members of the Russian Armed Forces who are being held as prisoners of war are not doing well," Mizintsev said.

"In addition, it has been confirmed that members of the Russian service were subjected to torture, violence and intimidation, which in their inhumanity imitated the actions of death squads during the Second World War, and all of this was widely publicized on the Internet and in the mass media. Unfortunately, the facts are outrageous. this remains unnoticed by the global community, including the UN, OSCE and ICRC," said the man who also serves as the head of the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.

Yesterday, Russia said it had the right to convene an emergency meeting of the Security Council (DK) of the United Nations (UN), regarding the situation and conditions of Russian prisoners of war.

Russia has turned to the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other international organizations, as well as to the leadership of Germany, France and Turkey.

"All countries actively working on the humanitarian territory of Ukraine (to) make the Ukrainian authorities immediately grant access to Russian prisoners of war international representatives of the Red Cross, with the aim of establishing the conditions of their detention, carrying out in-depth measures, medical examinations with subsequent transfer of reporting documents. to the Russian side and international organizations," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

"The Russian side reserves the right to immediately start an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on this issue, with a detailed report by the representatives of Ukraine and the leadership of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on the conditions of detention and the state of health of Russian servicemen, if the above-mentioned measures are not taken," the diplomat said. that.