Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), in coordination with the State Bureau of Investigations, has formally charged a former SBU official accused of abducting and torturing local residents in occupied Melitopol, the SBU announced on Feb. 9.
The Russians are using the same methods of persecution and torture in all occupied territories of Ukraine. Torture is a key tool for the Russians to obtain information. Source: representatives of the ZMINA Human Rights Centre Details: Human rights activists said that during the occupation of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast, people were tortured with beatings and electric shocks after being illegally detained by the Russians in the detention centre of the district police department.
Mikhail Filiponenko was allegedly involved in the organization of torture chambers in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast, "where prisoners of war and civilian hostages were subjected to inhumane torture," Ukraine's military intelligence said on Telegram.
Melitopol, Ukraine has been occupied by Russian forces since Feb. 2022, and the occupiers have set up prisons where residents are routinely tortured. Russian independent news site Vazhnyye Istorii/Important Stories spoke with people who have escaped these nightmarish prisons.
civilian infrastructure, torture chambers, rape rooms, you name it. there ll be accountability for this eventually, it is terrorism. from where things stand down, they re going slowly, admittedly. and i would attribute it to three things. one is that defense is always harder than offense, in any military operation. we say defense is to offense as three is to one. russians had a lot of time to dig in. it s taking time for the ukrainians to overcome those defenses. secondly, i would say, let s keep it in perspective. yes, it s going slowly, but think where we were a year ago when russia had twice as much territory as they currently have. ukrainians have taken back enormous tranches and we re having a conversation about a campaign that s going slowly, but i ll take that over where we were about a year ago, worried about, was kyiv or kherson going