Russia Vows to Press OSCE for Response to Reports on Ukraine’s Torture Chambers — Envoy
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MOSCOW, (Sputnik) — Russia will raise the issue of torture chambers in Ukraine at a Thursday meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council and call on the organization’s relevant institutions to assess these events, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyanskiy told RIA Novosti.»We will certainly bring this issue up within the OSCE framework and call on the organization’s relevant institutions to provide an assessment,» Polyanskiy said. He added that new details about torture chambers in Ukraine echo an account given by former Ukrainian serviceman Vladimir Lipko in October, during an online meeting organized by the Russian Mission to the OSCE as part of the Vienna Discussions. Lipko described the use of torture and forced conscription into the Ukrainian army at the time.Polyanskiy noted that that account, along with broader reports about such torture chambers, points to a reluctance among Ukrainians to participate in the ongoing hostilities, which Western countries try to ignore, simultaneously pushing for the conflict to continue, while rejecting any peaceful resolution.
