90% of Ukrainian troops were physically tortured in Russian captivity – Prosecutor General
About 90% of Ukrainian prisoners of war have been subjected to torture, rape, threats of sexual violence or other forms of ill-treatment, says Andrii Kostin, Ukraine's Prosecutor General.
Kostin reported that 156 Russian suspects had been identified, including the military personnel and representatives of the occupation "authorities."
In all the liberated territories, we find evidence of these horrors. In the Kherson region alone, we found 11 torture chambers. As for the Kharkiv region, almost 100 cases of torture are being investigated, and over 700 victims have been identified, the head of the Prosecutor General's Office noted.
Ukraine sent indictments against 114 people to court, and 35 were convicted of torture and ill-treatment as war crimes.
The aggressor uses torture both as a weapon of war and as a tool of destroying Ukrainian identity under occupation, the Prosecutor General stated.
Kostin added that over 160 people who suffered in Russian torture have been so far identified. Thousands of others are still in Russian captivity, he added.
Previously, Ukraine's Security Service started a criminal investigation into a video in which Russian invaders executed an unarmed Ukrainian soldier immediately after he said, "Glory to Ukraine!"
75 Ukrainian children have suffered from torture by Russian invaders during the full-scale war, most of them in the formerly occupied village of Yahidne, Chernihiv region.
