The death of captured Azov soldier Oleksandr Ishchenko in a Russian detention centre was caused by multiple fractures and a chest injury, said Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, citing the results of a forensic medical examination and a certificate of cause of death.
"The fact of another brutal murder of a Ukrainian prisoner of war has been confirmed. I am attaching the document with the consent of Olena, the wife of the tortured Ishchenko Oleksandr Oleksandrovych, who mobilised to Azov on 27 February 2022. This is not just another cynical violation by the Russians of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. This is a blow to human honour and dignity, to international law, to the principles and values we defend at the front," Palamar wrote.
He called on Ukrainian officials to put pressure on the West to help bring our prisoners home.
"Finally, start acting. The lives of our soldiers depend on your actions. It depends on your votes and your determination today whether this bloody list of tortured Ukrainian prisoners will grow and whether the torturers and murderers will be held accountable," Palamar called.