Media: The occupiers took more than two thousand Ukrainian prisoners to ten colonies in Russia

During the retreat from the Kherson region, the occupiers took Ukrainian prisoners to ten colonies on the territory of the Russian Federation.

This was reported by the Russian publication "Sirena" with reference to relatives of the prisoners and human rights organizations from the Russian Federation.

In May, prisoners from colonies in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions were taken to the correctional colony in Stara Zburyivka (50 kilometers from Kherson). And in November, two weeks before the retreat of Russian troops from Kherson, the Russian military began transporting prisoners to Russian colonies.

Relatives of prisoners told journalists that approximately 2,500 citizens of Ukraine ended up in colonies in the Krasnodar Territory and the Volgograd Region of the Russian Federation.

According to human rights defenders, Ukrainian prisoners also appeared in the Vladimir region. In total, they counted 10 colonies where Ukrainians are located, most of them are located in the Krasnodar Territory.

According to the head of the Russian organization Gulagu.net, Ukrainian prisoners are treated cruelly in Russia; electric shocks are used on them. They are also isolated from Russian prisoners.

• Ukrainian military entered Kherson on November 11. Before that, the Russians announced that they were withdrawing troops from the right bank of the Dnieper and Kherson itself.
• 166 prisoners, who were released by the occupiers before leaving Kherson, have already been returned to pretrial detention centers. Personal files of prisoners were found on the territory of Kherson pre-trial detention center — this information was passed on to law enforcement officers and checkpoints. The head of the National Police Ihor Klymenko clarified that it is about 450 people.
• On November 22, law enforcement officers detained a collaborator who, during the occupation, was "the head of the security department of the Kherson detention center." He contributed to the mass escape of prisoners.