‘Beyond cynical’ – Russian doctor carved ‘Glory to Russia’ scar on POW during operation, Ukraine says
kyivindependent.com
After more than three years of Russia’s full-scale invasion, each new revelation of cruel treatment of Ukrainians in Russian captivity hardly surprises anyone. But when a photo recently emerged online, showing a “Glory to Russia” scar on the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war (POW), it sent shockwaves

Better photo available here: https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/ukraine-begins-treating-soldier-scarred-with-glory-to-russia-phrase-from-russian-captivity-50522497.html

The words, written in Russian, were branded into the right side of the body alongside the letter “Z,” a symbol of the full-scale invasion that many Ukrainians and critics of the war liken to the Nazi swastika.

According to the United Nations, more than 95% of freed Ukrainian POWs have said they were tortured during their captivity. Survivors have recounted harrowing treatment, including being brutally beaten, electrocuted, and forced to endure painful stress positions.
Many have faced mock executions, threats of rape or death, and were denied basic medical care. Some were left without food, locked in isolation for weeks, or permanently marked with burns or scars.

For Turkevych and his team, seeing the scars left by Russian captivity on Ukrainian POWs has become a routine part of their work.

[…] Turkevych and his team have treated several released defenders bearing swastika-shaped scars, some even on their foreheads […]

  • Zombie-MantisEnglish
    1•2 days ago

    Not subhuman, that would imply that they’re lesser humans, of which there is no such thing.

    They aren’t human at all, not anymore. They forfit their human once they took part in this project of genocide.

    These demented husks, which can only take pleasure in the suffering of people, are what’s left of the humans they once were. They’re already dead.

    • @PunkRockSportsFanEnglish
      11•2 days ago

      Insisting that I treat inhuman murderers with humanity is a nonstarter.

      I know what they want to do to me and the people I love.

      I will die fighting them before I give them an ounce of compassion.

      • @parody@lemmings.worldEnglish
        6•2 days ago

        Insisting that I treat inhuman murderers with humanity is a nonstarter.

        I mean you’d bomb them to save lives right and if someone tricked them into walking into a jail cell you would lock it? You wouldn’t rape them to death if you had a cabinet full of lethal injection drugs… So you’re being better than them by treating them with no less than the minimal baseline of humanity right? (Or you completely disagree or partially with my attempt at getting a little more granular there)

      • Zombie-MantisEnglish
        2•2 days ago

        I didn’t suggest you should give them compassion, my words would imply they don’t deserve any at all.

        I’m a hard anti-spiritualist, but to the extent that I can accept the concept of a human spirit of soul at all, as a sort of metaphor, I can declare with absolute conviction that those skinwalkers have no soul to speak of.

        We must not yield to them, for the sake of our own humanity, and humanity at large.