Sunday 18 September 2022 10:56 PM Horrors of 'torture chamber' where Russian invaders brutalised prisoners trends now
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Ukrainian war crimes prosecutors have released images and details of a Russian 'torture chamber' they found in a newly liberated village.
Officials said the grim basement in Kozacha Lopan, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, was where Russian forces tormented military and civilian prisoners.
One image showed a Soviet-era military telephone which they claimed was used as the power source for a yellow wire which was connected to metal clips to electrocute prisoners during interrogation.
The basement also had a room with prison-style bars.
In recent days, testimonies have emerged from Ukrainians saying they were electrocuted, burned and beaten by Russian soldiers demanding the names and addresses of senior military figures in the region.
Prosecutors have documented the atrocities, which included torture chambers as well as mass graves. They have so far exhumed more than 60 bodies – of both soldiers and civilians – from a burial site thought to contain at least 450 graves in a forest on the edge of Izyum in Kharkiv
The Kremlin troops who were occupying Kharkiv, in the north-east of the country, have dropped their weapons and fled in the last couple of weeks after Ukraine's
