Ukraine captures native who led kidnapped Ukrainians to Russian torture chambers
An area collaborator who led kidnapped Ukrainians to jail cells the place they had been later tortured has been captured by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), based on a report.
The detained suspect voluntarily allegedly cooperated with Russian forces when took they management of Kherson – a port metropolis in jap Ukraine – final 12 months.
He was reportedly given a job at a neighborhood detention facility and led kidnapped Ukrainians to the jail cells, the place they had been later tortured, the SBU claimed in a Telegram put up.
The purported collaborator is alleged to have joined in in the course of the beating of the prisoners.
The suspect additionally confiscated their private belongings and denied them meals and water “for a long time.”
The SBU wrote: “While using physical violence against the victims, the collaborator repeatedly threatened to kill them.
“In this fashion, the Rashists (Russian forces and their supporters) tried to intimidate the residents and ‘break’ the preventing spirit of the resistance motion members.”
The suspect reportedly went into hiding when Ukrainian forces managed to liberate Kherson and he was eventually found by the SBU.
Law enforcement officers raided his home and found documents confirming that he collaborated with the Russian occupation forces, applied for Russian citizenship, and swore a “loyalty oath” to Moscow, the SBU claims.
The suspect could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
This comes after a shocking new investigation exposed the brutal torture tactics used at detention centres in Russian-occupied Kherson.
A team of foreign and Ukrainian leading prosecutors, investigators and lawyers from The Mobile Justice Team found that prisoners were reportedly forced to undergo excruciating horror tactics ranging from genital electrocutions to threats of genital mutilation.
Some were also forced to witness the rape of another detainee with a foreign object covered in a condom were victims of sexual violence tactics employed by pro-Russian perpetrators, investigators found.
Suffocation, waterboarding, severe beatings and threats of rape were among the other brutal techniques frequently used against victims by Russian guards in the Kherson torture chambers, the specialist unit found.
Russian forces have been accused of numerous war crimes amid Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion that began in February 2022.
This week, Moscow was accused of using a chemical substance in two artillery barrages on August 6.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE, a weapons expert, told Daily Express US: “The Russians have done virtually everything from blowing up schools and hospitals, the blood bank yesterday, a dam and threatening nuclear weapons from the get-go.”
Colonel de Bretton-Gordon OBE said using weapons of this nature would “contravene the chemical weapons convention” if true and would be “yet another war crime to add to Russia’s rising listing”.
Russia has additionally used cluster munitions, thermobaric rockets (additionally dubbed vacuum bombs), and white phosphorous shells towards civilian targets in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, in Kherson, the Russian army continued “to shell Kherson residents’ homes in the central part of the city” on Monday night.
Prokudin said via Telegram that the attack lasted for several hours.
A doctor was killed and five medical workers were injured in Russian shelling of a Kherson hospital earlier this month.
Russia rejects claims that it has intentionally been concentrating on civilians or hospitals over the course of its 18-month invasion.