This is stated in the joint investigation of the Schemes project of the Ukrainian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Belarusian editorial office of RFE/RL with the support of Cyberpartisans and The Reckoning Project. The journalists analyzed satellite images. The camp existed from March to May 2022 in Narovlya, Gomel region of Belarus.
According to The Reckoning Project, the Russian military transported civilians, including minors, to Narovlya, while prisoners of war were kept there. Bohdan Lysenko, an AFU military officer, was held captive in Narovlya in March 2022. “Civilians were beaten there, God forbid <…> screams were heard there all the time,” he says.
Aleksandr Lukashenko is an accomplice to the crimes, said Yulia Polekhina, a lawyer with the human rights group SICH, which works to document war crimes. “These filtration camps cannot be set up without authorized government officials who must give their consent. When people are beaten, tortured, not given medical care – this is a war crime,” Polekhina said.
