The SSU has collected evidence against another war criminal involved in mass torture of Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk oblast. The case file is to be transferred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The perpetrator is Volodymyr Rudyak, who had been in charge of the Sukhodilsk Correctional Colony since 2007 and was one of the first to defect to the enemy after the occupation.

For this, gauleiter Pasichnyk ‘reappointed’ him as the head of the captured penitentiary, which the invaders turned into a torture chamber.

After the start of the full-scale invasion, the occupation authorities started to bring Ukrainian prisoners and abducted local residents –members of the resistance movement – to the Sukhodilsk prison.

According to the investigation, the prisoners were beaten with special PR-73 batons until they lost consciousness.

On Rudyak’s orders, the victims were put against the wall and their execution was imitated as shots were fired from a firearm near their heads or bodies.

In addition, the head of the colony forced prisoners to move crouched in the corridors of the russian torture chamber and starved them for days.

In this way, he tried to persuade the victims to cooperate with the ruscists in the war against Ukraine.

Based on the evidence, SSU investigators notified Rudyak of suspicion in absentia under Article 438.1 of the CCU (cruel treatment of prisoners of war or civilians).

The criminal is hiding in the temporarily occupied part of eastern Ukraine. Efforts are underway to find and bring him to justice.

The investigation was carried out jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.