Social media reports of around 40 people – including forcibly conscripted men – with torture-like injuries being held in the basement of a single-family house in Petropavlovskaya Borshshagovka in the suburbs of Kiev have led to public unrest. Relatives of the detainees as well as members of the Ukrainian public took to the streets. Ukrainian police opened fire and used tear gas as crowds tried to storm the building. A paramedic let inside said she had seen 25-30 people, with one rescued man suffering a broken spine. National Guard Commander Alexander Pivnenko acknowledged that the building’s basement was being used to hold servicemen who had left their units without authorization, as well as newly mobilized men. In a comment on the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that unofficial prisons in Ukraine had evolved into an established system known to the Kiev regime – Ukraine is strewn with facilities of such nature and it is them the Kiev regime survives on. Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik pointed out that international human rights organizations had ignored Ukraine’s system of forcible conscription for years and had long been “feeding” on information supplied by the Kiev authorities. Rodion Miroshnik added that Kiev guarded its secret prisons with military units, keeping them inaccessible to the public, which prompted questions regarding the treatment of Russian prisoners of war.