Russian authorities fabricate at least 200 criminal cases against Ukrainians for “war crimes”, – Russian human rights activists say

Russian authorities plan to hold at least 200 high-profile criminal trials against Ukrainians, including prisoners of war, on war crimes charges. This information was provided by Volodymyr Osechkin, coordinator of the Russian information resource gulagu.net.

Thus, Russian human rights activists have information that the Russian authorities have a plan to hold at least 200 criminal trials accusing Ukrainians, including prisoners of war, of war crimes.

“People who are selected based on filtering to participate in such processes are placed in a pre-trial detention centre in Russia. These are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog,” Mikhail Savva said.

He also said that the so-called press brigades of convicts and detainees were being brought to these jails from other places of detention. They may be used to put pressure on Ukrainians. “The situation of these people, who have already been identified as victims, is a separate issue that needs to be addressed,” said the expert.

He also said that Ukrainians who are at large in Russia also have serious problems. Ukrainian SIM cards and bank cards do not work in Russia. Sometimes people do not have foreign passports, and often do not have the money to leave Russia.

In addition, the main purpose of the Solidarity Talks expert discussions is to find common algorithms for the actions of human rights defenders from different countries, in particular, the formats of joint actions to help Ukrainians who found themselves during the war in Russia.