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The Main Investigative Department of the National Police announced in September 16 2026 that two Russian prison guards of the federal penal institution “Correctional Colony No. 1 of the Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation in the Tula region” who tortured Ukrainians were suspected. The criminals were identified with the assistance of analysts from the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
This is reported by the project “The Book of Torturers of the Ukrainian People.”
What is known about the criminals
Kochetov Oleksiy Vyacheslavovych (28 born 1988) — native of the town of Donsky in the Tula region, Russia.
Myasnikov Yevgeniy Oleksiyovich (29 born 2000) — native of the town of Donsky in the Tula region, Russia.
At the time of the crime, in 2022, both held the position of junior inspectors at the strict regime penal colony No. 1 in the Tula region, located in Donskoye, 240 kilometers from Moscow and 640 kilometers from Kharkiv. In this prison, Russians detain Ukrainian citizens — servicemen and civilians.
Circumstances of the crime
Kochetov and Myasnikov, together with other colony employees and special forces, systematically subjected civilian detainees to physical and psychological violence motivated by hatred of Ukrainians.
Their victims included at least four men detained in March 2022 in Kyiv region.
Torture began immediately after the people were brought to the colony. During the so-called intake, they were marched through a line of inmates, each trying to hit the captive with his hands, feet, rubber batons, polymer tubes, or a stun gun.
Beating continued even during subsequent transport to the cell.
The guards forced their victims into uncomfortable positions — facing the wall, with legs wide apart, head pressed down and palms turned outward — and beat them with hands and feet wherever they could. The victims lost balance and consciousness and fell to the floor, after which they were forced to get up and the beating continued.
Kochetov also forced the victims to take a prone position, beat them on the face with his palms and on the torso with his feet, and stood on the back of a lying victim.
Myasnikov forced one of the victims to hang from a metal grate, delivered blows to the abdomen with a fist, and after he jumped down, struck him in the leg and neck with a stun gun.
The prisoners were beaten for the smallest reason or even for no reason at all. Myasnikov beat one man with a baton and a stun gun because he noticed him smiling on the video surveillance system. Another was beaten for dressing slowly as he ran from the shower to the yard.
Suspicion
Kochetov and Myasnikov are charged under part 1 of article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with mistreatment of civilians.
Their actions seriously violated the Geneva Conventions on the protection of civilians during war and Additional Protocol I, and under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court they constitute a war crime.
The criminal case has been entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations under No. 42023000000000055 from 23.01.2023.
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