“The most common torture techniques were electric shocks and severe beatings with sticks and other objects,” Mr. 7 in a sweeping counterattack that has pushed Russian forces out of most of Kharkiv Province after nearly seven months of occupation. Ukrainian troops have recaptured nearly 500 towns and villages since Sept. “Russian units set up such places of detention of civilians and prisoners of war in almost all the settlements where they were based,” Mr. Investigators have been gathering documents and other evidence from the sites and witness testimony, including from former detainees. The police have also discovered 22 locations that they suspect were used as torture chambers in areas of Kharkiv Province that were recently freed from Russian control, he said. Most of the civilian bodies recovered - 447 - were found in a mass burial site in Izium. The bodies included 226 women and 19 children. KHARKIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian police have recovered 534 bodies of civilians in territory recaptured by the Ukrainian Army since early September, Serhii Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the regional police force in Kharkiv, said at a news briefing on Thursday.
The main street of Kozacha Lopan, a small border town 5 kilometers from Russia.