People Tortured, Go Missing & Die for Ties With Russia in Kherson: Source

Ukraine's Security Service tortures people who collaborated with the Russian authorities while the city was under their control. Several people have been killed or abducted without trial to these chambers, with foreign mercenaries also engaged in torture, a Russian law enforcement official told Sputnik claiming to have a source in the Ukrainian National Police.

"Thus, the Dneprovsky police department employs mostly Ukrainians. The head of the unit is Grigory Nevkrytiy, the head of strategic intelligence of the Interior Ministry of Kherson - his deputy - Priveda Alexander, senior operatives Maloshenko Alexander and Shevchenko Maxim, police officers Sergey Gordey, Artur Frolov, Alexander Shvets, Kononov Artem," the source said.

According to Artem, Vladimir Malina - the assistant to a businessman who left for another region of Russia while Malina stayed behind - was detained on 5 April 2023 by Ukrainian security forces and died in the police department of the Dneprovsky district.

"He was detained in a torture cell of the Dneprovsky police department, brutally beaten, and died in the cell the next day. To conceal his death for three days, two detained with him - workers of the humanitarian center of the Russian Federation Roman Gavrilyuk and Igor Gurov - were tortured and forced to write an explanation that Malina was released with them", said the security officer.

Several were tortured to death in these cells, with all of them officially declared missing, the source specified.

"As for the second police station, where the torture chamber operates, Komsomolsky police station, not much is known about its work, because foreigners work there and locals are not allowed in. The languages English, Polish and Georgian were heard there," an employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies said.

According to him, foreigners working in Komsomolsky police department "use fighters of the Ukrainian nationalist formations as brute physical force to eliminate those who have fallen foul of the Kiev authorities."

"It is known that Gnatiuk Bogdan - who worked in the Suvorovsky police department before the special operation, and later returned to Kherson together with the Armed Forces of Ukraine - works in this police department; as well as Lubinsky Alexei Valentinovich, a Ukrainian nationalist and a specialist in confiscating other people's property, works in this police precinct," he added.

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According to the source, at least three people were their victims. Anna Demenskaya, a nurse at the city polyclinic, died of torture. Alexander Sendetsky, who worked as an investigator under the Russian authorities, and who did not leave Kherson so was detained and tortured, went missing after his arrest. Also missing after detention was Evgeny Usachev, who worked under the Russian authorities in the 90th penitentiary of Kherson - for some time he was kept in the basement of the Dneprovsky police block, since which no data has been received.

"In addition, more than 15 citizens were forced to testify against themselves as a result of the physical impact and were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment," the source added.

"Thus, law enforcement agencies and special services of Ukraine conduct investigative measures in violation of the procedural legislation of Ukraine, using methods of physical coercion against the detainees. Foreign mercenaries and militants of nationalist formations are actively involved in exerting pressure and carrying out violent actions against the detainees," he concluded.

People In Kherson Abducted, Tortured and Killed For Ties With Russia, Says Source