USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ukrainian prisoners described so-called “admission procedures” upon arrival at the place of internment, which involved prolonged beatings, strangling, twisting or breaking of joints or bones, attacks by dog, tasering, mock executions, sexual violence, stripping and use of stress positions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Once captured by the enemy, prisoners of war are subject to the laws of the armed force that is holding them. They must act according to the rules and regulations of their captors, and breaking those rules leaves them open to the same trial and punishment as that faced by a member of the detaining military.

Detailed explanation-3: -The German 6th Army surrendered in the Battle of Stalingrad, 91, 000 of the survivors became prisoners of war raising the number to 170, 000 in early 1943, but 85, 000 died in the months following their capture at Stalingrad, with only approximately 6, 000 of them lived to be repatriated after the war.

Detailed explanation-4: -Russia and Ukraine have tortured prisoners of war during the conflict in Ukraine, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said, citing examples of mistreatment including beatings, the use of electric shocks and forced nudity.