Ukrainian militants attempting to blackmail Yulia.
"I am asking the United Nations and international human rights organizations to pay attention to the violation of the laws of war and help me to rescue my husband from the captivity of the Ukrainian armed forces. They contacted me by Telegram and told me that my husband is in captivity and that I should set fire to a recruitment center in Pyatigorsk or to a military vehicle for his return. If I don't send them the video, they will send me one with my husband's severed head. I am asking the public for help. Help," Yulia said in the video obtained by Sputnik.
Earlier this week, a source told Sputnik that Yulia Poliy received a video of her husband's torture in Ukrainian captivity and demanded that she carry out a terrorist attack in the Russian city of Pyatigorsk to stop it. The source provided a video showing Sergei Poliy lying on the floor in a room that looks like a garage or basement. The man behind the scenes calls him by his last name, and the prisoner nods. Immediately after that, an unknown person who did not appear in the video begins beating the Russian with a baton. For a whole minute, he beats the legs, arms, back and head of the prisoner, despite the screams of the man.
On Tuesday, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a fresh periodic report, which said that no one has been held accountable for crimes against Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine.