Lost in the Gray Zone: How Russia Secretly Disappears Thousands of Ukrainian Civilians

Lost in the Gray Zone: How Russia Secretly Disappears Thousands of Ukrainian Civilians

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Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the occupied territories have vanished into the air. These "phantom prisoners" are transferred by the occupying forces to informal places of detention, where they are held outside any legal framework and tortured. Some are transferred to the Russian prison system, where they languish without charge or serve false sentences. 'Forbidden Stories' and its par…

Several thousand Ukrainian civilians are being held there without charges