Ukraine official reveals 'Russian make-shift jail'

The mayor of a district in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on Sunday (September 18) led a Reuters camera on a guided tour of what he said was a makeshift Russian prison and torture chamber.

Derhachi district mayor Vyacheslav Zadorenko said the cellar in Kozacha Lopan had been used to torture Ukrainian civilians.

Zadorenko claimed Russian forces detained people at the town's train station where they were beaten into making confessions before being transferred to the dingy cellar.

Iron bars, apparently recently welded together, form what look like cells with heavily barred metal doors behind which were grubby mattresses and bedding, discarded food tins, plastic plates, and water bottles.

The Derhachi district prosecutor's office opened an investigation in Saturday (Sept 17) accusing Russia of creating a "people's police" in Kozacha Lopan.

The prosecutor's office says the "people's police" created a cellar chamber in which they tortured civilians.

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[normantan]

As if the Ukrainian don't do the same thing....the worst thing is Ukrainian tortured their own if they suspect you are against the war! Already there are many journalists in Kiev taken out because they have opposite opinions to the war.