Ukraine’s visual challenge: they post a photo to detect their hidden snipers with the naked eye

While the UN denounced a few hours ago that many prisoners of war captured by Russian and Ukrainian forces as part of the war between the two countries are subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including electric shocks, the Ukrainian government defied its opponents by publishing a photo in which there are at least two of his snipers in the snow, but impossible to spot. “Find them”, reads the provocative initiative.

The National Guard of Ukraine posted a series of three photos on Tuesday, each with at least one sniper hidden in an unidentified location. The shooters are hidden in a snowy forest, camouflaged by the snow and bare bushes of the battlefield.

The National Guard challenged everyone to find the hidden snipers. “How many can you find?”

This series of three photographs taken deep in the undergrowth will test your observation skills and whether he’d be quick enough to spot a killer hiding in the winter battlefields of Ukraine, before they saw one.

“Attention task. Find the #sniper!”, wrote the organization, challenging its supporters and even its Russian enemies to identify the soldiers, incredibly hidden in plain sight.

at least one sniper It is hidden in the forest bushes in every photograph, but there could be more.

Battlefield snipers use grass, trees and bushes hide and go unnoticed. They are also known to wear ghillie suits, a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble their background environment, such as foliage, snow, or sand. The National Guard offered no leads to help.

In this case, Ukrainian snipers used their own snow environment to blur itmaking them difficult to detect even in these close-up images and virtually impossible to see at long distances.

Were you able to find the snipers in the photographs? Now, if you can find them highlighted with a red circle…

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The UN has denounced the torture of Russians and Ukrainians

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“The prohibition of torture and ill-treatment is absolute, even, indeed especially, in times of armed conflict,” said the head of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, during a video conference from kyiv, in which he denounced torture of soldiers and civilians.

The UN chief recalled that both countries are part of the Third Geneva Conventionestablishing the treatment of prisoners of war.

In recent months the mission interviewed 159 prisoners of war (139 men and 20 women) held by Russia and its affiliated armed groups and 175 POWs (all men) held by Ukraine.

While the United Nations has been granted access to Ukrainian government-controlled POW internment facilities, it has yet to receive restricted access to POWs captured by Russia and its affiliated armed groups.

Even the United Nations has received “credible allegations”. summary executions of Russian prisoners of war captured by Ukrainian forces and several instances of torture and ill-treatment.

Bogner explained that detainees by Russian forces are tortured in an almost “systematic” way and specified that simple soldiers have obtained a I deal less harshly with snipers or those in charge of the artillery.

“The vast majority” of those questioned who were captured by Russian forces said they were tortured or ill-treated, the official said.

The goal was not solely to obtain information, but also “intimidate and humiliate them” on a daily basis.

Several Ukrainian prisoners of war told the United Nations that they were beaten upon arrival at their places of detention, attacks with dogs and that they have been strippedas well as sexual assault.

“(Ukrainian) prisoners of war reported being beaten with wooden mallets and hammers, kicked and given electric shocks” from guns, Bogner said, according to AFP news agency.