Torture of civilians in Kherson: how the occupiers violated the laws of war

A Russian police officer will be tried in Kherson region for cruel treatment of civilians and violation of the laws and customs of war.

This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office.

An indictment was sent to the court against an employee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was sent to the occupied region in June 2022 to ensure the occupation regime.

According to the investigation, the accused is a police captain who worked in the so-called "temporary department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kherson region," created on the basis of the seized temporary detention center in Kherson. He interrogated and tortured an illegally detained resident of the city, demanding confessions of cooperation with the Ukrainian defense forces. Together with other representatives of the occupation administration, the accused beat the victim, mimicked his execution, and threatened him with physical destruction, including cutting off his limbs with a grinder.

The victim was detained for almost two months in brutal and unsanitary conditions, after which he was released without any documents or explanations.

Earlier, Intent wrote how the Russian occupiers remotely scatter hedgehog traps on the roads of Kherson region to kill and injure people.

Recently, in Kherson, SBI officers together with the SBU foiled the plans of a defector. During the occupation of the city, the man worked in a seized colony, and after the liberation of the region, he tried to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was detained.

Earlier, the court found the former penal colony employee guilty of high treason committed under martial law. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of his special rank of Major of Internal Service. While on the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region, the man voluntarily agreed to work for the enemy in an illegally created law enforcement agency, which became part of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and acted under the laws of the aggressor country.

Андрій Колісніченко