He described the same conditions as Vladyslav - crowded conditions, lack of food and water, and the military's refusal to take prisoners to the bathroom. The Russian military accused him of espionage for a text message sent to his brother in America, in which he reported that a Russian military unit had entered Kozarovichi. Other prisoners interviewed by human rights activists recalled the brutal beating and torture of the 'dam worker.'Īnother prisoner held at the Kozarovichi depot was 60-year-old Aleksandr. He came back, picked me up, quickly dragged me to the cell, and threw me inside.' I stayed down, moved the bag from my eyes, and saw a puddle of blood and battered hands. 'Then I heard a gun coming from nearby, and he ran out for a minute. He hit my head hard, and I started screaming because it felt like my head would explode.' Then he kicked me, threw me on my back again, and started kicking me, and I tried to cover my body and face. He asked about the 'relatives of the Ukrainian soldiers' and so on. I was confused, and didn’t understand what he wanted from me.Īfter the blows, I felt my teeth crack. 'He threw me on the ground, started asking who I worked for, and beat me after each question, without waiting for an answer, hitting my face. They tortured Vladyslav again during the interrogation and beat him with a hammer on his fingers because they found a couple of photos of Russian equipment on his phone. The military took the detainees for interrogations. They probably gave me food more often, but I only got waffles, although there were days when they didn't give me anything.” I drank water three or four times during the entire time there, one or two sips at a time. “The Russians gave water in a cork bottle or a mug and let you take a sip or two so that you didn't drink too much. By the end of my stay there, I stretched my bound hands forward because I couldn't stand it anymore.” All the time, we were tied up and blindfolded. I asked to go to the bathroom three or four times, but I only went once. They gave us a bucket for the toilet at the end of our stay. It quickly began to stink because the carpet was soaked with urine. When this happened, the Russians didn't react at all. The Russian military did not let the detainees go to the bathroom: 'Sometimes the guys would go under themselves. The occupants forbade them to talk to each other.

The room was dark and freezing, and everyone had a cold. People could not lie down with their legs stretched out. In a room one and a half meters wide and six to seven meters long, there were 10 people, mostly his fellow villagers. He denied the accusations.įor about seven to ten days, he was held in a warehouse on the outskirts of Kozarovichi.

Vladyslav was beaten severely: they threw him to the ground, hit his face, and demanded he admit that he was a spotter, i.e., that he reported the location of the occupants to the Ukrainian army. They took his phone and documents, did not give them back, put a bag on his head, and took him away from the house. They found a photo of the dam, which he had taken before the war began. They started to search the house and check their phones. An employee of the Irpen Dam, Vladyslav, 29, was hiding in a cellar in Kozarovichi with his parents and younger brother in early March when Russian soldiers came to their house.

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