Occupation official in Luhansk Oblast faces trial over electric shock torture of civilian
Law enforcement officers have sent to court an indictment against a 49-year-old resident of Sorokyne in the Luhansk Region (Oblast), the National Police of Ukraine reported. According to investigators, the man, who collaborated with the Russian occupation authorities and was involved in torturing a local woman with electric shocks because of her pro-Ukrainian views.
According to case materials, following the occupation of part of the Luhansk Oblast in 2014, the man joined illegal security structures. In June 2022, he served as the so-called acting deputy head of the Russian interior ministry’s local department in Svatove and took part in “filtration” measures in the temporarily occupied Svatove District.
According to the investigation, she was repeatedly brought to an office where she was tortured with electric shocks in an attempt to force a confession to a crime she did not commit.
The defendant’s actions were classified under Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – cruel treatment of a civilian in the context of an armed conflict.
A special pre-trial investigation in absentia has concluded, and the indictment has been sent to court.
In early November this year, the Velyka Oleksandrivka District Court of Kherson Oblast sentenced two militants of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” to 15 years in prison each, with confiscation of property. During the occupation of the Kherson region, they tortured a local farmer and demanded $4m for his release.
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