The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office announced Monday that it had discovered four “places of torture” used by the Russians in Kherson (south), during the occupation of this city recaptured by kyiv troops on November 11.
“In Kherson, prosecutors continue to record Russia’s crimes: torture sites have been detected in four buildings,” the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office said on the Telegram messaging network.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the Ukrainian investigators went to four buildings, including pre-war “pre-trial detention centers”, “where, during the occupation of the city, the Russians illegally detained people and brutally tortured them.”
“Pieces of rubber batons, a wooden bat, a device used by the occupants to electrocute civilians, an incandescent lamp and bullets (…) were seized,” added the same source, ten days after the recapture of Kherson by the Ukrainian army. .
“Work will continue to find torture rooms and places where people are illegally detained,” the attorney general said, adding that he also wanted to “identify all the victims.”
Since the recapture of Kherson on November 11, kyiv has denounced several Russian “war crimes” and “atrocities” in the region, but Moscow has so far not reacted to the accusations.
On Friday, a report released by the US Conflict Observatory said that between March and October, more than 220 people were detained or disappeared at the hands of Russian troops in Kherson.
The report also indicated that 55 of those detained or disappeared were tortured, while five died while in captivity or shortly after their release. Six of these people will have suffered sexual or gender violence.
The Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, also denounced, last week, that several mass graves were discovered, with investigations showing that Russian forces tortured Ukrainian prisoners using, for example, electric shocks. There are also reports of executions and beatings with iron bars.
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 7.8 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data. of the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the wider international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing Russia from the political point of view and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,557 dead civilians and 10,074 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
