Law enforcement officials have identified the occupier who staged a mock execution of a resident of the Kherson region

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The Criminal Investigation Department of the Kherson Regional Police Headquarters has identified a Russian soldier who tortured a resident of the Skadovsk district during the occupation of the region. A 37-year-old native of the Moscow region has been named as a suspect.

This was reported by the Main Police Department of the Kherson Region

According to the investigation, at the time the war crime was committed, the suspect was a member of Department “B” of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. In the spring of 2022, on orders from his superior, he attempted to extract information from a 41-year-old man he had captured regarding local residents who might be storing weapons or engaging in volunteer activities to raise funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Since the man did not answer the questions, he was handcuffed to a sewer pipe, stripped, and beaten while being threatened with mutilation. The suspect struck him more than fifty times on the body and simulated a shooting by firing a pistol near his head. He also twice placed a bag over the victim’s head, cutting off his air supply, causing the man to lose consciousness. Finally, the suspect inflicted a superficial gunshot wound to the detainee’s leg by firing a pistol.

Former police officerVolodymyr Plyukhin had previously been convicted of a war crime. During the occupation of the Kherson region, he and Russian soldiers tortured a local resident in an attempt to force him to confess to collaborating with the Ukrainian Defense Forces. The court found Plyukhin guilty of violating the laws and customs of war and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. The verdict was handed down in absentia, as the defendant is currently a fugitive.

Юлія Калабайда

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