Official report on the “children’s torture chamber” in Ukraine

The alleged “torture room”. Ukrainian children live It was revealed in Kherson, according to a senior Ukrainian human rights official Wednesday.

Speaking during a presentation about human rights violations committed against Ukrainian civilians, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said officials had uncovered evidence of the room through their investigations.

He said the report released on Wednesday focused on documented human rights violations against adult civilians and would be followed by two separate reports on violations against children and soldiers.

A boy holds his Ukrainian national flag signed by members of the Ukrainian military, November 19, 2022, in Kherson, Ukraine.
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But in explaining the extent of the violations revealed in the investigationLubinets said the authorities had also uncovered “torture of children for the first time”.

“I thought the bottom couldn’t be broken after Bucha and Erben,” Lubinets told reporters, referring to areas north of Kyiv that saw mass killings and reports of torture immediately after the Russian invasion in February.

“I personally saw two torture chambers in Balaklia that were facing each other,” he added, referring to a town in the Kharkiv region that Ukrainian forces recaptured in September.

Lubinets described a conversation he had with a man who said he had been kept in a Kharkiv room for 90 days and tortured with knife and hot objects, and was believed to have been heading towards the firing line several times.

“He heard the cries of women and men who are being tortured 24 hours a day. I thought he was there… down there,” he said in a press conference reported by the Ukrainian outlet Pravda. “No. We are Saw the bottom in Kherson.

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He continued, “In one of the torture chambers, we discovered a separate cell where the children were kept.”

Lubinets said the people who were kept in the room described a room next to theirs where they knew the children were being held and which Russian officials referred to as the “children’s cell.”

The cell was described as damp and the children left hungry.

The only difference about the conditions of the children’s cell from that of the other prisoners was that they were given three “fluffy” mats to lay on and water every two days.

The children held in the room were also subjected to “psychological” pressure and the guards told them that their parents had abandoned them.

Lubinets described the children as those who “resisted” the Russian occupation, which lasted nearly seven months.

A 14-year-old boy was taken into the room after he took a picture of reportedly damaged Russian equipment.

A boy holds his Ukrainian national flag signed by members of the Ukrainian military, November 19, 2022, in Kherson, Ukraine.

A boy holds his Ukrainian national flag signed by members of the Ukrainian military, November 19, 2022, in Kherson, Ukraine.
(Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

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Lubinets did not detail how long the children had been held or whether there had been any deaths.

The commissioner said that the authorities have so far found four torture chambers in the city of Kherson and six others in the neighboring areas, which the Ukrainian forces have regained control so far.

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