Ukrainian police said on Tuesday they had discovered 34 torture chambers in prisons set up by Moscow in the country’s territories that were liberated from Russian occupation.
“We discovered in the unoccupied areas 34 places where the Russians illegally detained and tortured citizens,” the press service of the National Police of Ukraine published in its account on the Telegram social network.
Twenty-four were discovered in the Kharkov region, three in Kherson, as many in the kyiv region, two more in Sumi and the rest in Donetsk, Ukrainian police said.
In the publication, the police added that, as of Monday, they had opened 40,742 criminal cases for crimes committed by the Russian military and their accomplices on the territory of Ukraine.
According to the police, 29,817 cases were opened for cases of violation of the laws and practices of war, 8,912 related to the usurpation of the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, 1,841 for collaboration with the enemy, 87 for high treason and 37 for sabotage. . .
In addition, and according to data from the Children of War portal, collected by local agencies, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 430 children have died in the country and 823 more have been injured.
Another 249 minors disappeared and 9,755 children were deported to the Russian Federation.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.7 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the UN, which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by President Vladimir Putin with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was widely condemned by the international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,430 civilian deaths and 9,865 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
