Security Service of Ukraine discovers another torture chamber in Kharkiv Oblast: Ukrainians taken to Russia after torture

Monday, 26 September 2022, 10:05

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – MONDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2022, 10:05

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has discovered a basement in the village of Lyptsi in Kharkiv Oblast, where representatives of the so-called "people's militia of the LPR" and the Russian military held pro-Ukrainian local residents, and then forcibly took them to Russia.

Source: Press service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU); press service of the Prosecutor General's Office

Quote from the SSU: "Militants from this terrorist organisation together with the Russian military have been using it [the basement -ed.] to illegally imprison local residents who supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine and who refused to cooperate with the enemy."

Details: The tortuture chamber was discovered on 23 September. The occupiers used brutal torture on the prisoners; after which they were forcibly taken to Russian territory.

Investigations are ongoing to identify all of the torture victims, as well as war criminals involved in the abuse of civilians. The SSU reiterated that all the evidence gathered concerning war crimes committed by Russian servicemen will be handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Background:

On 16 September, Ihor Klymenko, Head of the National Police, said that a total of ten torture chambers had been discovered in the liberated territory of Kharkiv Oblast.
On 17 September, it became known that Russian army tortured people in the cellar of the so-called "people’s militia" in the town of Kozacha Lopan when it was under siege.
On 23 September, law enforcement officers found 18 places in Kharkiv Oblast where the occupiers tortured Ukrainian citizens, and they have established the identities of over 1,000 Russian soldiers who committed crimes in the occupied territories.

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