Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine in the Russian Federation, 69 political prisoners have died, according to the report of the Remembrance Project. People died not only in places of detention, but also during a search, under house arrest or shortly after release. Among them are 63 men and 6 women, clarifies the human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memory" in the published report "We are not waiting for freedom". The youngest dead prisoners were 18-year-old Ukrainians Daniil Dakhov and Pavel Grimak, who were kidnapped in the Russian Melitopol. The oldest is the 81-year-old scientist Valery Mitko, who was accused of "treason" and died under house arrest. The average age of the dead at the time of death was about 51 years. Of the total number of deaths, at least 29 people died of medical causes, the report said. In 10 cases the exact cause of death is unknown. At least 20 other people, according to Memorial, died from beatings, torture or their consequences. It is suspected that 10 people committed suicide or died under similar circumstances. Human rights activists devoted a separate part of the report to Ukrainian citizens who died after being detained by Russian security forces. Among them is the journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in September 2024 in Russian prisons. "Unlike the Russians, who are subjected to physical violence mainly during the preliminary investigation, prisoners of war and abducted Ukrainian citizens are subjected to constant violence in their places of detention, beatings and torture in pre-trial detention centers and abuse in the colonies," writes Memorial. On October 26, it was learned that the 52-year-old production designer of the TV series "Khisol" Alexander Kondratov, who had been in pre-trial detention on charges of "treason" since August, after two months of "carousel arrests", died in Botkin Hospital in Moscow.

Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine in the Russian Federation, 69 political prisoners have died, according to the report of the Remembrance Project. People died not only in places of detention, but also during a search, under house arrest or shortly after release. Among them are 63 men and 6 women, clarifies the human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memory" in the published report "We are not waiting for freedom". The youngest dead prisoners were 18-year-old Ukrainians Daniil Dakhov and Pavel Grimak, who were kidnapped in the Russian Melitopol. The oldest is the 81-year-old scientist Valery Mitko, who was accused of "treason" and died under house arrest. The average age of the dead at the time of death was about 51 years. Of the total number of deaths, at least 29 people died of medical causes, the report said. In 10 cases the exact cause of death is unknown. At least 20 other people, according to Memorial, died from beatings, torture or their consequences. It is suspected that 10 people committed suicide or died under similar circumstances. Human rights activists devoted a separate part of the report to Ukrainian citizens who died after being detained by Russian security forces. Among them is the journalist Victoria Roshchina, who died in September 2024 in Russian prisons. "Unlike the Russians, who are subjected to physical violence mainly during the preliminary investigation, prisoners of war and abducted Ukrainian citizens are subjected to constant violence in their places of detention, beatings and torture in pre-trial detention centers and abuse in the colonies," writes Memorial. On October 26, it was learned that the 52-year-old production designer of the TV series "Khisol" Alexander Kondratov, who had been in pre-trial detention on charges of "treason" since August, after two months of "carousel arrests", died in Botkin Hospital in Moscow.