Ukraine denounces the discovery of new torture camps for Russian troops in Kharkiv

The Ukrainian Police have assured that they have located up to 25 installations used to torture prisoners by Russian forces in the Kharkov region, recently retaken by Ukraine.

“In these prison camps, civilians who were held in inhumane conditions were tortured,” explained the police chief in the area, Volodimir Timoshko, in a message posted on Facebook on Monday.

Some prisoners were subjected to electric shocks and others broke their fingers, Timoshko said.

The Kharkiv region has been under the control of Russian forces from the start of the invasion in February until early September, when Ukrainian forces forced their withdrawal in a counteroffensive. Since then they have found 920 civilian corpsesincluding those of 25 children, according to Timoshko, who has assured that they were killed by Russian soldiers.

The Ukrainian investigation suggests that Russian forces have also committed war crimes in other occupied areas, such as Bucha, outside kyiv, where they found more than 400 bodiesMost of them died by violent death.

This is not the first time that Ukraine claims to have found torture camps organized by Russian troops. In September of last year they already announced that they had found some in the city of Balaklia where, apparently, the Russian Army would have used the basements of some buildings as a prison and as a place to torture certain locals.