Russia has been stealing and selling the organs of dead prisoners, a Ukrainian prisoner of war’s wife has claimed.
According to the sinister new revelations, several corpses of dead soldiers returned by Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s forces to Ukraine have vital organs missing.
Larysa Salaeva, a prisoner of war’s wife and head of the Freedom to Defenders of Mariupol campaigning group, said: ‘It is already well-known that we receive the bodies of tortured prisoners during body exchanges’.
‘We receive not only tortured bodies but also bodies, unfortunately, without organs,’ she continued.
Speaking at a meeting in Ankara between representatives of the families of prisoners of war and the Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar, Salaeva said she believes this confirms that the black market for organ transplantation in the Russian Federation is active.
‘And, unfortunately, it operates with our prisoners of war,’ she added.
‘Therefore, I believe that this must be made known to the whole world to stop this crime.’
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A PLEA TO TURKEY
Salaeva appealed to the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to support the creation of a medical commission that would monitor the health status of both Ukrainian and Russian PoWs.
Salaeva called on Turkey to act as a mediator to resolve humanitarian issues linked to the return of prisoners of war.
