About 20% of the population of Ukraine has left the country since the beginning of the Russian invasion, said on Wednesday the commissioner for human rights in the Ukrainian parliament, Dmytro Lubinets, quoted by EFE and Agerpres.
Speaking to the press, the head of the Commission on Human Rights in the Ukrainian Parliament noted that about 7.9 million citizens out of approximately 41 million residents of Ukraine left the country at the end of last year.
“Seven million nine hundred thousand people left the country in search of asylum abroad, which is 20% of the population of our country,” he said.
In addition, 4.9 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced due to the military action launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, and an estimated one-third of them are pensioners and people with disabilities, he added.
Despite the growing number of refugees and displaced persons, Lubinets said at least 13 million people continue to live in territories under Russian occupation or in areas where fighting is ongoing.
Ukraine accuses Russia of torturing children
The day before, Lubinets said that the Ukrainian authorities discovered a camera with which the Russians detained and tortured 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.”
Lubinets charged that the children received little water and almost no food, and that, according to local residents, they were subjected to psychological abuse by Russian captors, who told them that their parents had abandoned them and that they would never leave again, never return home
A 14-year-old boy was arrested and then tortured just for taking pictures of broken Russian equipment.
“For the first time, we recorded the torture of children,” said a Ukrainian official. “I thought that it couldn’t get worse after Buchi, Irpin… but in Kherson it really got worse,” he stressed.
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