Ruslan, a resident of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), who went to the front as a volunteer, was taken prisoner by Ukraine, from where he had the chance to return. However, the Russian fighter failed to avoid the torture of employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The soldier told RIA Novosti about their cruelty.
According to him, he ended up in Ukrainian captivity in September last year, he was captured near Maryinka. Immediately after the capture, Ruslan was taken to a transit point, and from there to the location of the Ukrainian army, where the torture began.
The interlocutor of the agency spoke in detail about the sophisticated intimidation of the SBU. He admitted that he had not only been repeatedly beaten, but also tortured with electric current, doused with gasoline, sawed off his leg with a file and a hacksaw, tried to cut off his fingers with secateurs and to pull out his teeth with pliers.
“They threw me in a barn, then they ran, pulled me by the arms, by the legs and took me into the house, they started beating me, putting a bag over my head , a rag over my face, pouring water on me… They tried to ask me questions to get me to work for them: “What can you help us?”>, “What can you do? If you are not needed, we will shoot you “>”, Ruslan recalled.
The soldier added that it was all done, basically, for intimidation. At the same time, he considers himself lucky to return alive from captivity.
At the end of March, Tatyana Moskalkova, commissioner for human rights to the president, said that the Ukrainian side had halted another exchange of prisoners. According to her, it was about the transfer of 133 soldiers to Kiev.
A DPR fighter who returned from captivity recounted what kind of torture SBU officers inflicted on him
