The Security Service of Ukraine has gathered evidence against another four russian collaborators who tortured captured Ukrainian servicemen in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk oblast.

According to the investigation, the perpetrators are former employees of a correctional colony in Sukhodilsk who collaborated with the enemy after the area was captured. They later joined the ‘administration’ of the occupation prison:

These are:

• Kirill Dolgopolov, head of the ‘operational unit’ of the repressive institution, and three of his subordinates, ‘inspectors’ –
• Leonid Rudenko
• Mykola Tsvetkov
• Roman Zankov

The investigation established that russian occupiers set up a torture chamber in the seized institution, where they brought Ukrainian soldiers captured during fighting in eastern Ukraine.

In the jails, the said individuals beat the PoWs with rubber batons and tortured them with electric shocks.

In this way, the russian prison wardens hoped to persuade the captives to cooperate with russia.

Based on the evidence, SSU investigators notified Dolgopolov, Rudenko, Tsvetkov and Zankov of suspicion in absentia under Articles 28.1 and 438.1 of the CCU (violation of laws and customs of war, committed by a group).

The war criminals are in the temporarily occupied part of the Luhansk region; efforts to bring them to justice are underway.

The investigation was conducted by the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine with operational support from the SSU Office in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and under procedural supervision of the Office of the Prosecutor General.