Four ‘torture’ sites identified in Kherson, says Kyiv

Ukraine’s prosecutor general office has said its officials have identified four locations where Russian forces tortured detainees in Kherson city before its troops withdrew from the southern Ukrainian city earlier this month, Qazet.az reports according to update on Facebook.

In an update posted on Facebook, it said officials had inspected “four premises” where Russian troops “illegally detained people and brutally tortured them”.

It said Russian forces “set up pseudo-law enforcement agencies” in pre-trial detention centres and a police station in the captured city.

The statement continued:

Parts of rubber batons, a wooden bat, a device used by the Russians to torture civilians with electric shocks, an incandescent lamp and bullets from the walls were recovered. People in cells and basements were subjected to various methods of torture, physical and psychological violence.