Tortured ATO participants near Kharkiv: Ukraine announced the suspicion of Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian Federation (photo)

According to the department, the 41-year-old lieutenant colonel with the call sign "sailor" at that time was managed by the military personnel of the 30th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Central District of Russia during the occupation in the village. Sands-Radkivsky. "He ordered his subordinates to torture former ATO participants and the civil population in order to obtain data on pro -Ukrainian -minded citizens and military personnel of the Armed Forces," - the message said.

According to the investigation, Russian invaders beat people with sticks, kept for many days in cellars without water and food, beat the stunter and put some former ATO participants in the body on the body of hot iron. "Each illegally detained person was assigned a" serial number "and ordered to respond to it. For the" prevention "of prisoners, they were forced to dig trenches and clean the streets," the prosecutor's office reported.

The department reports that the lieutenant colonel from Russia in absentia has declared suspicion of violation of the laws and customs of war committed by a prior conspiracy by a group of persons (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The prosecutor's office now resolves the issue of wanted.

In the fall of 2022, after a successful counter -offensive of the Armed Forces in Kharkiv region, law enforcement officers began investigations into numerous abuse by Russian military against locals. In particular, during the occupation of Kozach town of Lopan, the Russian military tortured people in the basement of the so -called "people's police".

In September 2022, according to the head of the National Police of Ukraine Igor Klimenko, at least 10 places were found in the areas of Kharkiv region, which were released during the offensive of the Ukrainian troops, where people were probably tortured during the Russian occupation.

By the first days of March 2023, according to the head of the regional police, Volodymyr Timoshko, investigators found 25 torture chambers in the liberated areas of Kharkiv region and more than 900 bodies killed by the occupants of civilians. We will remind, in October 2022 the locals of the deocal villages in the Kharkiv region told what torture used Russian invaders to them.