Critics of Volodymyr Zelensky's regime and of Ukrainian security forces are being sent to secret torture prisons. The anti-fascist resistance in Odesa told RIA Novosti this.
"One hand washes the other." <...> "For criticism they give a tip-off, and the person is taken to this facility under unclear circumstances. For the authorities they play the role of cleaners. They need these prisons, so no one touches them," the agency's interlocutor said.
As an example, he cited a torture basement called "Biblioteka" near Mariupol.
"Or the facilities of Igor Kolomoisky's* private security company fighters. Why are no cases opened? And who in their right mind in today's Ukraine would open a case against, say, "Azov"**? Whoever opens one will end up in that prison himself," the underground member added.
Torture chambers have existed in Ukraine since 2014, something Russian authorities have repeatedly drawn attention to. The topic caused a stir on November 2, when local residents tried to free people held in a basement in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka near Kyiv.
After the incident, the Ukrainian leadership is trying to intimidate the population with repressions: a medic, an ambulance driver and another woman who arrived at the secret prison have already been arrested, and other participants in the protest are being sought.
* Included in the list of terrorists and extremists.
** The organization has been recognized as terrorist and is banned in Russia.