Ukrainian prosecutor’s office announced to have discovered “torture sites” used by Russians in Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine recaptured by kyiv forces after almost nine months of Russian occupation.
“In Kherson, prosecutors continue to determine the Russia’s crimes,” the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said on Telegram, stating that officials found “torture sites” in “four buildings.”
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Among those four buildings visited by the researchers, there are “provisional detention centers” from before the war , “where, during the taking of the city, the occupiers illegally detained people and brutally tortured them,” added the prosecution.
Kherson was the first major city to fall into Russian hands after the invasion on 24 February. The Ukrainian army recaptured the town, the capital of the homonymous region, on 24 November.
The evidence
Investigators seized “pieces of rubber batons, a wooden bat, a device used by the occupants to electrocute civilians, an incandescent lamp, and bullets “, explained the source.
“The work to establish the places of torture and illegal detention of people continues,” said the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, which also wants to “identify all victims.” The Russian withdrawal, the third in magnitude since the start of the invasion, represented a severe setback for President Vladimir Putin.
Since it recaptured the city, kyiv has repeatedly denounced the ” war crimes” and “atrocities” committed by the Russians in the region, one of four that Moscow annexed in September.
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