Russia denies attacking civilians in the war and rejects accusations of mistreating them.
Lubinets, who has filed a series of reports on alleged torture, said conditions were worse than in places of confinement investigated in other recaptured areas.
“We found 10 torture chambers in the Kherson region, four in the city of Kherson,” he told reporters at a briefing. “In one of the torture chambers we found a separate room, a cell where children were locked up… even the occupants called it that, a children’s cell.”
The cell differed from the adjacent rooms only in that the occupying forces laid thin mats on the floor, he said.
“We have documented that the children were not given water, they were given water every other day. They were given virtually no food,” Lubinets said.
“They used psychological pressure. They told them that their parents had abandoned them and that they would not return.”
A 14-year-old boy was detained, he said, for taking photos of damaged Russian military equipment.
“They were children who, in the eyes of the invaders, were resisting,” Lubinets said.
Lubinets did not provide evidence for his claims. Reuters could not immediately confirm the veracity of his account.
Lubinets also said some 12,000 Ukrainian children had been taken to Russia since the invasion began in February, including 8,600 taken by force.
Western officials have spoken of mass deportations of Ukrainians forced through “filtration” points. The US ambassador to the United Nations in September estimated deportations between 900,000 and 1.6 million.
Russia denies organizing mass deportations to Russia, neither of adults nor of children. (Reporting by Nick Starkov and Ron Popeski, editing by David Ljunggren and Rosalba O’Brien)
Source: Ambito
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