Russian occupiers in the summer of 2022 brutally tortured a civilian resident of Kherson, keeping him in handcuffs, beating him and holding him for more than a week in a sewer shaft without water, food or access to air.
This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the investigation, involved in the crime is a pseudo-police officer from Melitopol, who held the position of the so-called chief of staff in an illegal body — the city department of the Melitopol district office of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
In the summer of 2022 he was in occupied Kherson and, together with other Russian military personnel, detained a civilian man on one of the city’s streets. The aim was to obtain information about the whereabouts of the victim’s father. To protect his relatives, the man gave a false address.
After the deception was exposed, the detainee was taken to the pier, where he was chained by handcuffs to a metal pipe and periodically beaten. Later he was transported to the center of Kherson, where on the steps of an administrative building they exerted psychological pressure — forcing him to perform the Russian national anthem, answer ideological questions, and in case of ‘incorrect’ answers — beat him.
After that, by order of the suspect, the man was imprisoned in the sewer shaft of one of the hospitals. The victim was held for more than a week in a concrete shaft about five meters deep — without ventilation, a place to sleep or a toilet, with limited access to food and water.
Later the exhausted man was taken out and left out in the open.
Earlier we wrote that investigators of the National Police Department in Kherson Oblast announced suspicions against Crimea resident Oleksandr Ulizko and Hola Prystan resident Serhii Buzukin. They are suspected of cooperating with Russian occupiers and of cruel treatment and torture of civilians.