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He said the Russians tried to break the prisoners mentally and force them to confess to falsified crimes through tortures including freezing, beatings, electrocution and sexual abuse, he said. "Two of my friends were beaten to death in detention centers in the Donetsk region," Garsiya said. "Two of my friends died because of the conditions they were put in in Russian prisons and were returned in plastic bags to the homeland." For Umerova, her captivity began when she tried to enter Russia from Georgia to visit her seriously ill father in Crimea, which is part of Ukraine but has been occupied by Russia since 2014. The Geneva-based human rights office "has documented the execution of 129 Ukrainian prisoners of war at the beginning of their captivity, and the deaths of 48 Ukrainian prisoners of war in custody, resulting from torture, denial of medical care, or other inhumane conditions of detention," Julio said.
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