Threatened and starved: Russian sergeant tortured Donbas veterans in Katiuzhanka
Ukrainian law enforcement declared in absentia that a Russian sergeant is suspected of having tortured, in the village of Katiuzanka, former servicemen of the operation in the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts [formerly know as the Anti-Terror Operation, or ATO -ed.] during the occupation of Kyiv Oblast.
Source: Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine
Details: Under the procedural guidance of prosecutors of offences against minors in the Kyiv Oblast prosecutor's office, a sergeant of the 83rd Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation was identified and served notice of being suspected of violating the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
According to the investigation by the prosecutors, in February-March 2022, during the temporary occupation of the village of Katiuzhanka, Vyshhorod Raion (Kyiv Oblast), the sergeant conducted searches of buildings in the village.
The armed sergeant illegally detained two men who were former servicemen with the (Ukrainian) operation in the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. He threatened to kill them and demanded that they provide information about the location of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The suspect was also interested in the location of participants in the Donbas operation, law enforcement officers and pro-Ukrainian citizens. He forced the men to go down to the basement of a local school, where the occupiers had set up a room for torturing detained people.
The illegal interrogation of the captives continued there for several days with the aim of obtaining information from them. They were threatened with execution, beaten and tortured, and deprived of food or water.
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