The SBU and the prosecutor’s office have announced suspicion in absentia against the head of one of the Luhansk prisons...

The SBU and the prosecutor’s office have announced suspicion in absentia against the head of one of the Luhansk prisons where Ukrainian patriots are tortured

The Security Service and the prosecutor’s office have collected sufficient evidence to notify the head of an illegal prison, created by the enemy in temporarily occupied Luhansk, of suspicion.

According to the case materials, the suspect organized mass torture of members of the resistance movement whom the rashaists abducted and imprisoned in the regime facility.

In the dungeons, people were held in cells without heating, had limbs broken and smashed, and were also deprived of food, water, and medical care.

The investigation established that the torture facility was headed by a former official of the local colony administration, who in 2014 switched to the enemy’s side.

For this, the leaders of the so‑called “security bloc” of the occupation administration of the Russian Federation appointed him head of the so‑called “Luhansk Penal Enforcement Institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR,” which was later renamed “Pretrial Detention Center No. 1.”

Since the start of the full‑scale war, the rashaists have imprisoned Ukrainian patriots and local residents who resisted the Kremlin regime in the torture facility.

It has been established that victims were held in overcrowded cold cells without warm clothing or blankets, in unsanitary conditions that caused physical exhaustion, exacerbation of chronic illnesses, and the development of severe infectious diseases.

In addition, the rashaists regularly tortured people with electric shocks and beat prisoners with rubber batons of the PR‑73 type. Some had bones broken until they lost consciousness.

On the basis of the collected evidence, SBU investigators notified the head of the illegal Russian prison in absentia of suspicion under part 1 of article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (cruel treatment of the civilian population).

Because the perpetrator is hiding in the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine, measures are ongoing to bring him to justice.

The investigation was conducted by officers of the Main Department of the SBU in Donetsk and Luhansk regions under the procedural guidance of the Luhansk Regional Prosecutor’s Office.