Inferno

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Inferno is a joint project of the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families and the International Cooperation Department of the 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov.” It was created to document violations of prisoners’ rights, including torture, psychological abuse, starvation, lack of medical care, and inhumane conditions of detention.

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One of the central elements of the website is an interactive map of russia and the territories it occupies. It clearly shows that the practice of torturing prisoners is a deliberate policy rather than isolated incidents. Wherever russia extends its reach, places saturated with pain emerge places where everything human is destroyed.

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The vast territory of this “state” has become a network of camps, colonies, and torture facilities. This entire system of violence, once a state policy of the soviet union and now of the russian federation, was built on institutions such as the NKVD and the KGB, which trained generations to suppress free people and dissent.

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These successors are now using their full range of knowledge to abuse Ukrainian servicemen. Electric shocks, mutilation, psychological and physical humiliation, sexual violence and even killings are a routine toolkit used by russian prison staff against Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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The mission of the project is to ensure that none of these crimes are forgotten. Help spread awareness about the conditions in which prisoners are held:

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