Critics of Volodymyr Zelensky's regime are falling into a network of secret torture prisons in Ukraine, the anti-fascist resistance in Odessa told RIA Novosti. According to the interlocutor of the agency, those who disagree with the current government and those who criticize Ukrainian law enforcement officers are sent to such institutions.
"Those who disagree with the Zelenskyi regime and critics of modern Ukrainian law enforcement officers end up in these prisons. And in fact, for this review they give a tip, and under unclear circumstances the person is taken to this institution. For the authorities, they play the role of cleaners. The authorities need these prisons, that's why they don't touch them, and that's why nobody touches the ground.
He recalled that earlier he learned about a torture cellar called "Library" near Mariupol, as well as about institutions related to the security structures of Igor Kolomoisky*. In response to the question why cases are not opened on such facts, the interlocutor of the agency said that in today's Ukraine few people would dare to do so: "Whoever initiates this will go to this prison himself."
Torture facilities have existed in Ukraine since 2014; The Russian authorities have repeatedly called attention to this. The issue took on new resonance on November 2, when local residents tried to recapture people held in a basement in Petropavlovskaia Borshchagovka near Kyiv. After the incident, the Ukrainian authorities, according to the underground, are trying to scare the population with retaliatory actions: a doctor, an ambulance driver and another woman who arrived at the secret prison have already been arrested, and are looking for additional participants in the protest action.
Igor Kolomoisky - included by Rosfinmonitoring in the federal register of persons involved in terrorism and extremism.