According to Ukrainian officials, a Russian torture chamber where victims had their teeth pulled out and some were buried alive has been discovered.
The tragic discovery was uncovered in the northern Ukrainian village of Pisky-Rad’kivs’ki, some 25 kilometers east of the city of Izyum.
Images depict a plastic bucket with dozens of gold teeth, crowns, and dentures that, according to Ukrainian officials, were extracted from victims of the site.
Locals report that some victims were buried alive.
In Kharkiv region, a bucket containing gold fillings, crowns, and dentures that Ukrainian officials claim were taken from victims of a Russian torture room was discovered.
Ukrainian officials claim that a gas mask and a charred cloth were used to force people to breath noxious fumes, while others were buried alive.
After the discovery of mass graves in Bucha, Irpin, and Izyum, this is simply the most recent instance of Russian military torturing and executing residents in seized areas of the country.
Also discovered were dozens of torture chambers, which were frequently installed in the basements of abandoned government buildings.
Some bodies were discovered with their wrists bound and with gunshot wounds to the knees or the back of the skull.
Survivors of such locations remember being kept for weeks at a time and regularly abused during interrogation sessions, including being electrocuted while being compelled to divulge the names of residents linked with the military or government.
Serhii Bolvinov, the town’s head investigator in the Kharkiv region, disclosed the most recent torture location.
He wrote, “Neighbors frequently heard cries from this location.”
In the village, investigators discovered a horrible torture chamber.
“The police are aware of the torture technique of burying a person alive and the use of a gas mask with a smoldering rag.”
After this horror house was discovered in Izyum, it is the most recent evidence of Russian military arresting, torturing, and executing individuals in controlled territories.
Electric cables are visible within a bag of evidence after forensic experts suspected that they were used to torture Ukrainian detainees.
A Ukrainian police officer inspects a cell while the Lord’s Prayer is written on the wall at the District Police Department in Balaklya, a town in the northeastern Kharkiv region used by Russian occupants for torture.
Additionally, a dildo and a box with damaged dentures were discovered in the torture chamber.
The terrible finding was revealed as Ukraine liberates hundreds of northern and southern towns and villages from Russian control.
Following a quick operation in Kharkiv that returned almost the whole province to Ukrainian control last month, forces have been pushing the Russians out of the final territories they control, the majority of which are east of the Oskil River.
At least two towns were liberated on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces pushed eastward into the neighboring Luhansk region.
East of the Oskil, Pisky-Rad’kivs’ki is located in the same region.
Hundreds of miles to the south, the Russian frontline partially collapsed on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces advanced 10 miles in a couple of hours.
Overnight, President Zelensky announced that “dozens” of towns and villages had been liberated, and social media was awash with footage of flag-waving soldiers being received by ecstatic locals after Russian troops abandoned their posts.
Members of the Ukrainian Emergency Service, police, and specialists remove a casket from a mass grave near Izium.
The new atrocities recall those done earlier in the war in Bucha and Irpin, where at least 458 civilians perished under Russian rule (pictured, a mass grave)
Kherson is notable because it is one of the four territories that Putin seized last week, declaring that they would be a permanent part of Russia.
It is also where the majority of his strongest fighting troops — up to 30,000 men at one stage, according to estimates — are concentrated, so a defeat here would cast doubt on the Russian army’s capacity to keep any of the area it now possesses.
Since early August, Ukraine has been bombing the region, but until this week had made only minor gains.
Their objective is to retake the city of Kherson, the sole regional capital to fall to Putin’s forces during the invasion, which would deal a devastating blow to his war campaign.
Ukraine spent weeks before to the war demolishing the city-dividing Dnipro River bridges to prevent Russia from reinforcing and resupplying its men on the west side.
According to sources, Putin has issued tight instructions that the city cannot be ceded, and 5,000 men are still believed to be guarding the city.