The scale of torture in Kherson during the Russian occupation was “terrible,” a senior Ukrainian human rights activist said today.

“I have never seen torture on such a scale, after visiting all the dungeons in different regions of Ukraine,” Verkhovna Rada deputy Dmitry Lubinets said on Ukrainian television. “The scale of the phenomenon is enormous.”

“Dozens of people were tortured with electric shocks and beaten with metal pipes. Their bones were broken,” and “the Russians filmed it all,” he stressed. “I am sure that in every major area we will find a torture chamber. Because this is the system that Russia has established.”

Ukrainian authorities announced the discovery of several torture chambers in districts of the Kherson region after they were recaptured by Ukrainian forces after several months of occupation.

A Kherson resident told AFP that he was held for several weeks. He claimed that Russian and pro-Russian officials tied him up, beat him and tortured him with electric shocks during his detention.

Source: APE-MPE, AFP.