Since the liberation of the area around the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv from Russian occupation, police say they have discovered 25 torture camps there. In the camps, Russian troops held and tortured civilians in inhumane conditions, regional police chief Volodymyr Timoshko said on Facebook on Monday. Some prisoners received electric shocks, others had their fingers broken.
The area around Kharkov had been occupied by Russian troops for months. They only withdrew in early September after a Ukrainian counter-offensive.
920 civilian bodies discovered
Since then, 920 civilian bodies, including 25 children, have been discovered in the liberated region, Timoschko said. They were killed by Russian soldiers.
Russian forces have so far also committed war crimes in other occupied territories, according to investigations by Ukrainian authorities. After the withdrawal of Russian units from Bucha, a suburb of Kiev, the bodies of more than 400 people were found there. Most of them had died a violent death. The investigations are ongoing.
Russia admits dozens killed in Ukrainian attack
Meanwhile, Ukraine has killed dozens of Russian soldiers in an airstrike on a hideout in Russian-occupied Donbass. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed this on Monday and spoke of 63 dead. The Ukrainian army even reported 400 dead and 300 wounded. Russia, for its part, has again fired on Ukraine with drones.
Source: Krone
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