Russian invasion of Ukraine/Torture

• “🧵Just finished reading a horrific report on torture and confinement in the Ukrainian occupied territories, compiled by Danish rights group Dignity, and several Ukrainian NGOs. The report finds that in c. 100 police stations Russia took over, torture chambers were “ubiquitous”” (thread) (pdf)

• Electric shock torture in the occupied territories

• ‘I prayed I wouldn’t be next’ The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians

• Shocks, Beatings, Mock Executions: Inside Kherson’s Detention Centers

• Widespread use of torture by Russian military in Ukraine appears deliberate: UN expert

• Calculated evil: How Putin’s forces use war crimes and torture to erase Ukrainian identity

• https://twitter.com/anno1540/status/1691640639631270283

• Russians torturing Ukrainians in occupied territories with electric shocks most often

• https://kyivindependent.com/sbu-russian-colonel-tortured-civilians-to-death-in-kherson-oblast/

• https://twitter.com/gerashchenko_en/status/1706714589625249847

• https://thehill.com/policy/international/3659023-un-panel-reports-ukrainian-children-have-been-raped-tortured-by-russian-forces/

• https://twitter.com/KramarenkoMari3/status/1709876445692952956

• "I saw there hacksaws, chainsaws, axes, machetes. Everything was covered in blood." Military medic Yuriy Armash about terror in russian torture camps.

• An incredibly tough but fascinating interview with Ukrainian military medic Yuriy Armash. Yuriy was captured by Russians in the early days of the war and recently released in a prisoners' swap. In captivity, he helped hundreds of tortured Ukrainians to survive.

• Kremlinism/Torture