The Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police, and the Office of the Prosecutor General, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Lithuania, have identified another ruscist who tortured a Lithuanian volunteer in the temporarily occupied Melitopol.

The evidence was collected by an international investigative team.

In November this year, in the framework of a joint investigation, Ukraine extradited to Lithuania a captured russian national who had tortured a volunteer from Lithuania.

The team has now identified the perpetrator’s accomplice. He turned out to be his colleague, russian citizen Rabadan Abdulganiev, a senior inspector of the military police of the 177^th separate marine regiment of russia’s Caspian flotilla.

According to the investigation, both ruscists tortured prisoners who were held in a prison on the territory of a captured airfield in Melitopol.

One of their victims was a Lithuanian volunteer who had been helping the Defence Forces since the start of the full-scale war.

In the torture chamber, prisoners were locked in cramped metal boxes, suffocated until they lost consciousness, hung by their hands, doused with ice water in the cold, and beaten with electricity.

Based on the materials of the SSU investigators and foreign partners, Abdulganiev has been notified of suspicion in absentia of violating the Geneva Conventions, laws and customs of war under the Articles 100 and 103 (part 1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania.

As the culprit is in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, efforts to bring him to justice for war crimes are underway.

The investigation was carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s of Ukraine.