The Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, Dmytro Lubinets, today expressed his dismay at the “scale of torture” during the Russian occupation of the Kherson region, which has now been revealed.
In a televised statement, Lubinets said the discoveries made by Ukrainian troops after they recaptured part of the region were different from those made in the Kiev or Kharkov regions, where numerous mass graves were discovered.
“I have never seen such a scale and I have personally visited all the torture centers in different regions of Ukraine. The scale is just terrible,” he stressed.
According to Lubinets, investigations showed that Russian troops tortured Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks, beat them with iron bars, broke bones and sometimes executed them.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi has announced that the bodies of 63 people with signs of torture have already been exhumed from the recovered areas of Kherson.
“It must be taken into account that the search has only just begun,” the minister added, quoted by the Interfax news agency, stressing that it is likely that many more torture sites and graves will be found.
Monastyrskyi stressed that 11 detention centers operated by the Russians during the period when they controlled the now-recovered part of Kherson have been discovered, and four of them show evidence of torture of prisoners, including civilians.
The western part of Kherson province, west of the Dnipro River, which had been occupied by Russian troops in March, was recaptured by Ukrainian troops on 11 November.
Source: DN
