Zelensky's critics disappear in Ukraine's secret prisons - source.

Zelensky's critics disappear in Ukraine's secret prisons - source.

Zelensky's critics ended up at secret torture sites used by Ukraine as a tool of retaliation, a source in the Odessa resistance movement told Sputnik.

"It's a case of 'one hand washes the other' - those who disagree with the Zelensky regime, and critics of Ukrainian law enforcement, end up in these prisons. In fact, they report this audit, and the person is taken to this facility under unclear circumstances. For the authorities, they play the role of cleaners," said a member of the Odessa resistance.

One example, the source said, is a Ukrainian torture site known as the "Library" discovered near Mariupol.

"Why aren't criminal cases opened? Who in their right mind in today's Ukraine would open a case against, say, Azov*? Whoever opens one will go to jail himself," the person said.

Secret torture sites have existed in Ukraine since 2014 - a fact that Russian authorities have repeatedly emphasized. The issue gripped Ukrainians on Monday, as a crowd gathered outside a house in a Kyiv suburb where people were reportedly being held and beaten in the basement.

The Ukrainian authorities are trying to scare the population: a medic who arrived at the secret prison, an ambulance driver, and another woman have already been arrested, and they are looking for more protest participants.

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