Ukrainian authorities claim to have unearthed a “torture chamber” used by Russian soldiers – teeth used to bury prisoners alive, a sex toy and a gas mask.
The defense ministry of the country under siege on Tuesday compared the harrowing scenes found in the newly liberated village of Pisky-Radkivsky. “A Mini Auschwitz.”
It shared disturbing images, including some of abandoned gas masks believed to be “placed over the head of a victim who was covered with a smoldering cloth and buried alive.”
Another image shows a plastic container with dozens of “gold dental crowns” pulled from victims.
It was found with a sex toy that Russian soldiers used on villagers and captured by Ukrainian forces. “Horrible torture chamber,” According to the local National Security Service investigation chief Sergei Bolvinov.
According to Ukrainian officials, the disturbing discovery includes a plastic box full of gold teeth pulled from victims.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry claimed, “A gas mask was put on the head of one of the victims, covered with a smoldering cloth and buried alive.”
According to several local officials, a sex toy was also found with wires and ropes used to torture all Ukrainian prisoners.
“Neighbors heard screams incessantly from there,” insisted Bolvinov, who said that wires and ropes were also found in the village basement about 100 miles outside the city of Kharkiv.
“The police are well aware of the torture of being buried alive and the use of gas masks with smoldering clothes,” he said.
He shared a video Of officers looking around the dilapidated basement, where lines of blood are seen scratching the walls. One of them can be heard saying, “These are the conditions in which they were being kept… they were tortured here.”
The National Police of Ukraine also highlighted the discovery as “another torture chamber of Russian occupiers”.
“After the capture, our police officers here document the war crimes… the local people were kept in inhuman conditions. People were threatened, beaten up and abused,” Sewa said.
A local man shows a mark on his wrist where he claims he was tortured by Russian soldiers.
A security service chief said locals then reported to the authorities in the basement, where “neighbors heard constant screams” while it was occupied by invading forces.
Blood and scratches were visible on the walls in the torture chamber of the basement.
Officials said the locals were tortured and even buried alive in dirty basements.
It also exposed a police station in another Kharkiv village, Veliky Burluk, “which the occupiers turned into their fortified base and a torture chamber for local residents.”
“The Russians were living here, illegally detaining and abusing local residents,” the national police force said.
Despite overwhelming evidence, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied human rights abuses or attacks on civilians in its so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine.