In every possible way, the police found a record number of torture Russian in Kharkiv region

According to the source, three of them remain undocumented because they are located in settlements, which are undergoing intense shelling on the border with Russia. Investigators of the National Police are investigating 10 criminal cases on the facts of torture in Kharkiv region, while actively interacting with 227 victims. "Among the largest is the case of Kupyansk torture.

Here, the military of the Russian army, illegal armed forces" LNR/DNR "and collaborators illegally kept and tortured locals in the premises It is in the statement. Within the framework of the united investigation, 73 crimes related to the cruelty of civilians, including cases related to deliberate murder, are underway. Police officially states that 67 people were victims of occupiers in Kupyansk.

However, there is information that more than 150 victims, aged 16 to 65, were tortured by the invaders not taken into account in official statistics. In the temporary detention center of the Kupyansk Police Department, designed for a maximum of 45 people, actually held exactly so many people. Investigators also have information that some of these prisoners have been held in such conditions for more than 100 days. Victims are ordinary Ukrainians aged 16 to 65.

Among them were students, pensioners, teachers, directors of local enterprises and farmers. Bolvinov reported that the invaders used a variety of mockery methods, including hands and legs, the use of rubber sticks and pipes, as well as the use of electric current and electric shops. They also used torture methods, such as the burning of plastic on the body, flexion of hands and joints in shackles, coercion to work, and put psychological pressure.

"As a result, two of the prisoners died, four are considered missing, four more are still in captivity. Most were seriously psychological injuries," the police said. Investigators of the specialized department of investigation of war crimes work with them.

The head of the investigative department specified that during the investigation into the Kupyansk torture case, many investigative procedures were conducted, and the already available evidence was sufficient to qualify the actions of the occupiers as unlawful encroachments committed within the organized group.

"The task that is facing us is to direct not one episode of torture in court, but to establish and identify all Russian military, LNR/DPR fighters and traitors-koaborators involved in the torture of Ukrainians in Kupyansk. We are working to establish personalities Every executioner, "he added. We will remind, on December 8 the Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin told about the crimes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.