Kremlin authorised brutal torture of Ukrainian POWs since first weeks of full-scale war

Mykhailo Podolyaksenior ukrainian official

The torture by starvation is monstrous, the beatings and violence are sophisticated

Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, said last year

The upward trend is very clear, very obvious,

says Yuri Belousov, the head of the War Department at the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office recently told the BBC

The UK demands an immediate end to all atrocities and calls for independent investigations to hold all perpetrators accountable; from those carrying out abuses to those ordering them,

she said

Be cruel, don't pity them,

Potapenko instructed