Law enforcement officers served suspicion notices to two members of the Russian occupation authorities who tortured Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region. The occupiers, in particular, beat Ukrainians with rubber truncheons, kept them without food and water for days and tortured them with electric shocks. UNN reports this with reference to the SBU.
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The perpetrators reportedly kidnapped people to Russian torture chambers and subjected them to brutal torture in person to persuade them to cooperate with the Nazis.
One of the defendants is a former employee of the local unit of the disbanded police who joined the occupation "lPR mbd" in 2015. After the start of the full-scale invasion of Russia and the capture of Svatove, he participated in repressions against Ukrainians who resisted the invaders in the town.
Together with his accomplices, he kidnapped people in the middle of the street and took them to the "basement". Among the victims were the former mayor of the city, a member of the district council, and several employees of local government agencies.
In the prisons, the attacker beat the prisoners with a rifle butt, poured boiling water on them and applied electric shocks.
Another defendant is a former official of a local penitentiary institution. In 2014, he voluntarily joined the "penitentiary department" of the "lPR" terrorist organization. Even before Russia's full-scale invasion, he became the "deputy head of the Sukhodolsk correctional colony of the Russian Federation". After February 24, 2022, the occupiers created a Russian torture chamber on the basis of the pseudo-institution, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were taken.
There, they were reportedly brutally beaten with rubber truncheons and kept for days without food or water in overcrowded cells. The perpetrator also personally tortured prisoners with electric shocks in his office.
SBU investigators have served both suspects notices of suspicion in absentia under Part 2 Art. 28, Part 1 Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws and customs of war committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).
Comprehensive measures are underway to find and punish the racists, the SBU said.