Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has raised the number of torture chambers discovered in the northeastern Kharkov region to 23 as they push back Russian troops.
According to Interior Minister Denis Monastirski, of the 23 Russian torture chambers located in Kharkov, eight of them are in the town of Kupiansk. Another room was also discovered in Donetsk.
In addition to the large number of chambers located in Kharkov, the minister also expressed his surprise about one of them, located in the locality of Balaklia, which was in a police station.
There, he says, they could hold up to 40 people in the different cells of the police station. «According to witnesses, hundreds of people passed through this torture chamber,» lamented Monastirski, who detailed that Russian troops made use of electric shocks, beatings and other abuses.
Monastirski said that the Ukrainian authorities are engaged in a series of investigations to find out about the crimes committed in the torture chambers and to identify the perpetrators.
«I am optimistic on the issue of establishing the persons involved in these cases. With regard to some of them, we already know who was there directly,» the Ukrainian Interior Minister said, Ukrinform agency reported.
Monastirski confirmed that the police have thousands of hours of recorded conversations in which Russian troops acknowledge their crimes. This will facilitate the identification of the perpetrators.
