‘Absolute evil’: according to a prisoner who was there.

[David Morris]

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‘Absolute evil’: inside the Russian prison camp where dozens of Ukrainians
burned to death

Screams from soldiers being tortured, overflowing cells, inhuman
conditions, a regime of intimidation and murder. Inedible gruel, no
communication with the outside world.

This, according to a prisoner who was there, is what conditions are like
inside Olenivka, the notorious detention centre outside Donetsk
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/30/ukraine-donetsk-olenivka-prison-bombing-russia-war>
where
dozens of Ukrainian soldiers burned to death while in Russian captivity.

Anna Vorosheva – a 45-year-old Ukrainian – gave a harrowing account to the
Observer of her time inside the jail. She spent 100 days in Olenivka after
being detained in mid-March at a checkpoint. She had been trying to deliver
humanitarian supplies to Mariupol, her home city.

Now recovering in France, Vorosheva said she had no doubt Russia “cynically
and deliberately” murdered Ukrainian prisoners of war. “We are talking
about absolute evil,” she said.

“Russia didn’t want them to stay alive. I’m sure some of those ‘killed’ in
the explosion were already corpses. It was a convenient way of accounting
for the fact they had been tortured to death,” she said.