The criminal army of the Russian Federation attacked the Malyi Burluk village in the Kharkiv region near Kupiansk. A woman was killed, and children were injured.
What is known about the Russian army's airstrike consequences in the Kharkiv region
According to the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the airstrike of the Russian occupiers was aimed at the village council in the settlement of Malyi Burluk.
Two children were injured. A 10-year-old boy's leg was amputated, a 13-year-old girl is in the hospital with shrapnel wounds to her body, the Ministry of Internal Affairs message said.
Moreover, law enforcement officers discovered the body of a dead woman during the inspection of the scene of the shooting.
The law enforcement officers also reported that in Kupiansk, as a result of the shelling, private houses were damaged, and a fire broke out in one of the houses.
What is known about the torture chambers of the Russian occupiers in the Kharkiv region
According to Serhii Bolvinov, the head of the Investigative Department of Ukraine’s National Police in the Kharkiv region, law enforcement officers discovered 28 torture chambers set up by Russian war criminals in the liberated territories of the region.
Three of them remain undocumented because they are located in populated areas that are intensively shelled on the border with the Russian Federation.
National Police investigators are investigating ten criminal proceedings regarding torture in the Kharkiv region, within which work with 227 victims continues.
Among the biggest is the case of the torture chamber in Kupiansk. Here, the soldiers of the Russian army, illegal armed formations "LPR/DPR" and collaborators illegally detained and tortured local residents for more than half a year in the premises of the temporary detention center of the Kupyan police department, — the statement of the law enforcement officers states.
Within the framework of the joint proceedings, 73 crimes are being investigated based on the fact of brutal treatment of the civilian population, in particular — combined with intentional murder.
The police officially consider that 67 people were injured at the hands of the occupiers in the Kupyan torture chamber. Still, the law enforcement officers know about the torture of more than 150 victims aged 16 to 65.
This is the number of people kept in the temporary detention centre of the Kupyan police department, which has a maximum capacity of 45 people. Investigators also know that some were detained for more than 100 days.
The victims are ordinary Ukrainians aged 16 to 65. Among them were schoolchildren, pensioners, teachers, directors of local enterprises and farmers.
Bolvinov reported that the occupiers beat people with hands and feet, rubber sticks and pipes, electric shocks and stun guns. They burned plastic on the body, bent the hands and joints in handcuffs, forced them to work, and exerted psychological pressure.
As a result, two of the prisoners died, four are considered missing, four more are still in captivity. Most of them suffered severe psychological injuries, — emphasises the head of the Investigative Department.
The head of the investigative department specified that hundreds of investigative actions were carried out as part of the proceedings regarding the Kupiansk torture chamber, and the available evidence is already sufficient to qualify the actions of the occupiers as being committed as part of an organised group.
The task before us is to bring to court not just one episode of torture, but to establish and identify all Russian soldiers, LPR/DPR fighters and traitor-collaborators involved in the torture of Ukrainians in Kupiansk. We are working on establishing the personalities of each executioner, — noted Bolvinov.
According to the law enforcement officer, it was difficult to investigate this case because the criminals constantly hid their faces.
But the law enforcement officers have many testimonies of the victims, a list of personnel of Russian "policemen", their "reports" and "detention logs", and shortly, they will announce a series of suspicions against them.
