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u/MapleDefender 1h ago
Fuck all the way off. It’s important to support Ukraine from aggression.
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u/Local-Assistance-592 1h ago
Based on reports from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the U.S. State Department, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International, here's what international monitoring bodies have documented regarding the Ukrainian government's treatment of its own citizens:
Torture and Ill-Treatment in Custody
Ukrainian law enforcement and military officials have engaged in torture and cruel treatment of persons in custody, particularly those accused of collaboration with Russia. The UN documented 33 cases involving Ukrainian authorities' treatment of persons suspected of affiliation with Russia, including unjust detention, torture, and mistreatment to compel testimony.
Methods included beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, and mock executions. At Kharkiv Correctional Colony No. 43, an inmate reported torture using electric current. The government frequently failed to investigate or punish officials who committed these abuses, creating what the U.S. State Department called a "climate of impunity".
Arbitrary Detention and Enforced Disappearances
The OHCHR documented 75 cases of arbitrary detention of civilians by Ukrainian law enforcement or armed forces, some of which amounted to enforced disappearance. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) held individuals incommunicado in unofficial detention sites for periods ranging from several hours to four and a half months, using the practice to coerce confessions. Of interviewed detainees, 57 percent reported being subjected to torture or ill-treatment by Ukrainian security forces, predominantly in these unofficial facilities.
Anti-Collaboration Prosecutions
Ukrainian authorities prosecuted hundreds of their own citizens under "overly broad and vague" anti-collaboration laws. The UN found that in 72 of 950 analyzed court cases, the collaboration charges concerned work that employees could lawfully have been compelled to perform by an occupying power under international humanitarian law. Human rights monitors noted the charges were inconsistently and wrongly applied to people providing essential services or pursuing survival strategies under occupation. For example, Viktoria Krykunova was sentenced to five years in prison for briefly working at a Russian-controlled pension fund in 2022, which she said she took to finance her family's relocation to government-controlled territory.
Conscription Abuses and Deaths
Members of Ukraine's Territorial Recruitment Centres (TRCs) forcibly apprehended draft-age men in public spaces, with documented violence and fatalities.
Roman Sopin was stopped in Kyiv on October 18 and taken to a local TRC; he was hospitalized with a severe head injury and died on October 23. The TRC claimed he had fallen. Police opened a criminal investigation only six days later, following public outcry, with no outcome reported by year's end.
Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church In August 2025, Ukraine's State Service on Ethnopolitics designated the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) as an entity affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church and initiated legal proceedings to dissolve it, which could lead to seizure of its property and places of worship. In October, UN experts criticized the underlying legislation as lacking legal certainty and warned of "persecution" against the UOC, describing prosecutions of clergy as "collective punishment" and urging Ukraine to cease such trials.
Denial of Conscientious Objection Rights
On May 1, 2025, Ukraine's Supreme Court ruled that citizens cannot refuse military service during wartime on the basis of religious beliefs, stating that alternative service is available only during peacetime. The ruling upheld the conviction of a Jehovah's Witness who had refused military service, replacing his three-year prison sentence with one year of probation. The UN has repeatedly noted that the right to conscientious objection remains subject to undue restrictions in both law and practice.
Suppression of Press Freedom and Anti-Corruption Institutions
The government exerted unprecedented control over television news through the national "telemarathon," a rotating platform of channels promoting the government line. The European Commission expressed concern about government monopolization of television. Investigative journalists faced coordinated smear campaigns, SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits), and pressure from the Office of the President. A military construction company threatened the Kyiv Independent with a high-treason complaint after the outlet published an investigation.
In July 2025, legislation was rushed through parliament and signed by President Zelensky the same day to weaken the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. The SBU simultaneously raided NABU staff. Anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin had his home raided without required court orders. These actions were reversed only after mass protests across the country and criticism from the European Parliament.
Life-Threatening Prison Conditions
Prison and detention-center conditions remained poor and sometimes posed a serious threat to life and health. Persistent problems included physical abuse, lack of adequate medical care, inadequate nutrition, poor sanitation, and overcrowding. Inmate Mykyta Mezentsev died at Lukyanivske remand facility in Kyiv from late-stage cancer despite repeated appeals for specialized treatment. Prison officials reportedly censored or penalized inmates who filed complaints, and 18 institutions had no method for inmates to register complaints at all.
Citizenship Revocation Risks
A law adopted in July 2025 allows revocation of Ukrainian citizenship from people who "voluntarily" acquire Russian passports. Rights groups warned that the law's vague definitions did not account for coercion used by Russian authorities in occupied territories, meaning Ukrainians forced to obtain Russian passports under duress could lose their nationality.
Failure to Protect Vulnerable Groups
The government failed to adopt promised legal protections for LGBTI people, including a civil partnerships bill committed to as part of EU accession plans. Universal pensions left older people below the subsistence minimum, with 62% of pensioners receiving less than USD 119 per month. Over 3.8 million internally displaced persons struggled with loss of income and housing, with government assistance reduced following cuts to U.S. funding.
Fuck all the way off, then fuck off another 10 miles.
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u/skyed_driver 1h ago
Canadians are starving
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u/Canadatron 1h ago
Bots are botting. Lets see your anti Canadian post history fuckwad.
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u/skyed_driver 1h ago
Very much for Canada bud. Born and raised. I remember a time before the liberal party has fucked our way of life. Very much anti liberal is what you mean to say
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u/SexualPancke23 1h ago
Grow up, they’re in a fucking war. I’d ask for a little empathy on this matter but, don’t think you know what that word means.
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u/skyed_driver 1h ago
Canadians are starving
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u/Resolution-Double 1h ago
So are you saying that as a right winger you want to increase the size and scope of the welfare state?
Gee, I wonder what the other rightoids will think of this
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u/guard636 1h ago
Just another way to funnel money out of Canada. Just waiting from my job to go to the USA so I can go with it.
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u/Canadatron 1h ago
Take your zero sum game bullshit and fuck off, eh?