Investigations continue in the de-occupied territories of Kharkiv region. Every day there is more and more evidence of the horrific crimes of the occupiers.
Today, 18 places are known where the Russians kept and tortured civilians. About this Channel 24Sergey Bolvinov, head of the Kharkiv Region Police Investigation Department, said.
Where the Russians set up dungeons
According to Bolvinov, the Russian invaders set up dungeons where they were deployed. These are such settlements as: Balakleya, Kupyansk, Izyum, Volchansk, Kazachya Lopan and others.
They occupied the premises of the police buildings, where temporary detention facilities were located, which were not used during the war, but the Russians found a use for them, – said the head of the investigation department.
These places were filled with the maximum number of civilians. “They could accuse every passer-by on the street of being a 'gunner', collaborating with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or generally having pro-Ukrainian views,” the head of the investigative department of the Kharkiv region police stressed.
Bolvinov said that the Russians broke into the premises, conducted a search, blindfolded their eyes and hand, placed them in this dungeon, beat them, very often used tension, tying wires to their fingers. “Sometimes they used atrocities against our people“, he said.
The police also documented the facts when people died as a result of such torture. They were given to relatives in a closed coffin, not being allowed to say goodbye and carry out the appropriate burial procedures.
These are challenges for us now, in connection with this there is a lot of work for the police to establish all the facts, identify people, establish the causes and events that served this. And most importantly – to find the culprits, – said Bolvinov.
He added that qualified police personnel concentrated all their efforts in the Kharkiv region. Moreover, forensic laboratories arrived from other regions. In particular, specialists who worked in the cities of Bucha and Irpin joined.
The main goal is to collect qualitative information from the world at the scene and the evidence base. “We seize DNA, fingerprints, documents to identify Russian executioners who committed crimes in these territories,” he said.
The police communicate with other services that have operational information about the deployment of Russian units. The invaders very quickly fled from the territory of the Kharkiv region, so they left a lot of documents useful for the investigation. The police, cyber police, criminal investigation department and other operational units are now working with these materials.
