Russian MP Oleg Nilov, who is also the deputy head of the “Just Russia” party, joked about Ukrainian children at a charity event in Russia, saying that a boy from Kyiv “dreams of rockets”, writes The Guardian.

Russian MP Oleg NilovPhoto: video shooting

In the video, Nilov stands in front of a Christmas tree at a charity event, collects a children’s note from the Christmas tree and says: “Vova, a boy from Kyiv dreams of rockets. Vova, you will receive rockets – wait.”

He adds: “It’s a joke, of course.”

The video of the shooting emerged on the same day that Ukrainian authorities said they had discovered a camera used by the Russians to detain and torture children during the occupation of Kherson.

According to the testimony of local residents and other victims of torture in the facility, they knew that minor Ukrainians were being held there by the Russian special services, who called the facility a “children’s cell.”

Dmytro Lubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, says that the minors received little water and almost no food.

According to local residents, the children were subjected to psychological abuse by Russian prisoners, who told them that their parents had abandoned them and that they would never return home.

According to Lubinets, the 14-year-old boy was arrested and then tortured just for taking pictures of broken Russian equipment.