Vladimir Putin's troops 'tortured Ukrainians with electric chairs and castration'

A prison cell in Izyum (Image: undefined)

Russian forces stand accused of perpetrating a vile campaign of brutality against Ukrainian citizens, utilising a makeshift torture prison where victims were reportedly strapped to electric chairs and subjected to castration.

The town of Izyum in Ukraine was reclaimed in 2022, unearthing mass graves and sinister torture chambers. Locals allege the Russians resorted to electric shocks as a means of tormenting anyone suspected of aiding the resistance.

Shocking photographs have surfaced, depicting a crude electric chair anchored to the ground with a metal pole, positioned beside a wall punctured by a solitary hole with exposed wires. This chair was found within the confines of the Izyum police station, a site purportedly synonymous with unspeakable acts of torture.

Taras Berezovets, a member of the Ivan Bohun brigade within the Ukrainian army's special forces and the unit's spokesperson, shared these harrowing images online. Berezovets asserted that the Russians "used electric shocks to torture prisoners of war and civilians".

He described how the "chair stands on a wooden platform", enabling the torturer to conduct the interrogation without succumbing to electric shock themselves. "The wires with which the prisoners were interrogated are visible on the left in the wall," he detailed, reports the Mirror US.

Electric nodes were attached to one man's finger (Image: undefined)

Further distressing images disclosed an additional alleged torture chamber, according to Berezovets, where Ukrainian prisoners were crammed four to a cell, and a separate cell was designated solely for military detainees, accommodating just one individual.

At least 10 torture chambers have been discovered where locals were subjected to inhumane conditions, with men confined in cave-like underground cells.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that bodies were exhumed from approximately 450 graves near Izyum. Investigators found that nearly every victim appeared to have endured torture prior to their death, a tragic and harrowing detail.

Victims were kept four per cell (Image: undefined)

Yevheny Yenin, Ukraine's First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, said: "We continue to find bodies with signs of violent death - there are many of them."

He detailed the gruesome findings: "These include broken ribs and cracked skulls, men with bound hands, broken jaws, and severed genitalia."

Oleg Synehubov, Governor of Kharkiv region, said: "Some of the dead have signs of a violent death. There are bodies with tied hands and traces of torture. The deceased were also found to have explosive, shrapnel and stab wounds."

Oleksandr Hlushko, aged 53, told to The Times his five-day ordeal after being suspected by Russian forces of communicating with Ukrainian partisans.

The station had constructed their own electric chairs (Image: undefined)

He suffered crushed ribs, was beaten repeatedly, and had the soles of his feet whipped before being discarded by the roadside. After six weeks of hospital treatment, he now speaks with a slur.

"The first time they took me away, they beat me until I was a vegetable," he shared. "If it wasn't for the doctors, I wouldn't be here today."

He also claimed to have been subjected to electric shocks, alleging that electrodes were fastened to his little fingers. "The second time, I almost hit the ceiling," he recounted.

In a separate harrowing account, another individual reported being coerced to stand in excrement for an entire day, only to be subsequently placed in police cells where he suffered broken ribs.