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Ukraine War: Russian torture chambers discovered in Kherson

2022-11-18T03:53:16.118Z


Ukraine War: Russian torture chambers discovered in Kherson Created: 2022-11-18 04:42 By: Lukas Zigo, Karolin Schäfer, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nail Akkoyun, Vincent Büssow, Stefan Krieger, Lucas Maier Dozens of rockets keep falling in Ukraine. In the liberated city of Cherson, the full horror of war is revealed. The news ticker on the Ukraine war. Explosion in Poland: Ukrainian experts arrived to i


Ukraine War: Russian torture chambers discovered in Kherson

Created: 2022-11-18 04:42

By: Lukas Zigo, Karolin Schäfer, Tim Vincent Dicke, Nail Akkoyun, Vincent Büssow, Stefan Krieger, Lucas Maier

Dozens of rockets keep falling in Ukraine.

In the liberated city of Cherson, the full horror of war is revealed.

The news ticker on the Ukraine war.

  • Explosion in Poland:

    Ukrainian experts arrived to investigate what happened

  • Eastern Ukraine:

    Several gas plants destroyed after "massive shelling".

  • Editor's note:

    Read the latest developments in the Ukraine conflict in our news ticker.

    The information on the Ukraine war processed here comes partly from the warring parties in Russia and Ukraine.

    They can therefore not be independently checked in part.

Update Friday November 18, 2022 4:40 a.m.:

A Ukrainian ombudsman has described the level of torture discovered in the city of Kherson as "appalling".

Authorities found torture chambers in the recently liberated southern Ukrainian city where dozens of people were reportedly being tortured, said Dmytro Lubynets.

As the

AFP

news agency reports, the Ukrainians were electrocuted and hit with metal pipes before they were killed.

Lubynets said he spoke to a man who had been held in one such "torture chamber" for 45 days and who saw dozens of people being tortured.

“I have never seen such a scale.

It's just horrific.”

A destroyed school in a recently liberated village on the outskirts of Kherson.

Russian torture chambers have now been discovered in Cherson.

© Bernat Armangue/dpa

News about the Ukraine war: Torture chambers discovered in Kherson

+++ 10:05 p.m .:

The Ukrainian army liberated the city of Cherson from the Russian occupiers after eight months.

Little by little, more details about alleged atrocities are coming to light.

Residents are said to have been tortured by the Russian military.

Dmytro Lubinets, Human Rights Commissioner in the Ukrainian Parliament, was appalled at the extent.

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Two torture chambers were discovered in the city,

Ukrinform

quoted the human rights activist as saying, in which “dozens of people were tortured”.

He had never seen anything like this before.

"It seems like they (the Russian military) enjoyed killing and torturing our citizens," it said.

Lubinets himself spoke to one of the victims who was held for 45 days.

The man reported torture with electric shocks and metal pipes.

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Meanwhile, parts of the Cherson region were mined.

Russian troops are said to have planted mines on the site of a solar power plant in Biloserka as they retreated.

This was reported by the police in Kherson Oblast.

Before operations can be restored at the plant, the area must be searched and mines cleared.

Ukraine war news: investigation into explosion in Poland

+++ 9:20 p.m .:

After the rocket hit in Poland, in which two people were killed, Ukrainian experts have now arrived to investigate what happened.

“Ukraine and Poland will cooperate constructively and openly in the incident caused by Russian missile terror against Ukraine.

Our experts are already in Poland,”

The Kyiv Independent

quoted Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as saying.

Poland is thus complying with a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

It is now assumed that it was a Ukrainian missile that had missed its target.

According to Jakub Kumoch, head of the Polish President's Office for International Affairs, there is evidence of this.

No one accuses Ukraine of "deliberately hitting Polish territory," Kumoch stressed.

Russia bombed Ukraine that day and bears "full responsibility".

News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv is preparing for a nuclear attack

+++ 19.45:

In the Donetsk region, Ukraine is preparing for a possible nuclear attack.

"The measures to be taken in the event of a nuclear strike on Donetsk Oblast were rehearsed today in an online exercise," Pavlo Kyrylenko, the region's governor, informed Telegram.

The exercise is based on a fictional scenario in which Russia used nuclear weapons against infrastructure in Donetsk.

The aim of the preparations is that everyone involved knows how to behave in an emergency.

"We have to be prepared for all eventualities," said Kyrylenko.

The Kremlin repeatedly made nuclear threats during the Ukraine war.

News about the Ukraine war: several injured after attack on Dnipro

+++ 7:00 p.m .:

The Polish national football team has started its flight to the World Cup in Qatar accompanied by several fighter jets.

“They are escorted to the border by Polish F-16s.

Good luck!” Poland's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak wrote on Twitter.

He also posted a photo showing the crew's passenger plane above the clouds and an F-16 fighter jet next to it.

The reason was the rocket that hit the Polish border area with Ukraine on Tuesday.

+++ 6:00 p.m .:

According to Polish President Andrzej Duda, the participation of Ukrainian specialists in the investigation into the missile impact on Polish territory is bound by the regulations of international mutual legal assistance.

"If guests from Ukraine want to see the ongoing investigation, then it will be possible to show them, as I was shown today," Duda said after visiting the site of the impact in the village of Przevodov.

"But when it comes to actively participating in the investigations, to accessing documents, to information, then specific contractual bases within the meaning of international law and international agreements are required."

+++ 4.50 p.m .:

According to the authorities in the Ukrainian region of Dnipro, 23 people were injured in Russian rocket attacks on Thursday, 15 of them are in the hospital.

As Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the regional military administration, explained, in addition to industrial companies, residential houses, vehicles and a busy street were also damaged.

The rockets hit “when people were already on the street.

They were on their way to work, going about their business.

They just lived their normal lives," Reznichenko was quoted as saying by

CNN

.

News about the Ukraine war: Several gas plants destroyed after "massive shelling".

+++ 3.15 p.m .:

According to the state-owned Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz, several gas production facilities in eastern Ukraine were destroyed on Thursday after “massive shelling” and others were damaged.

"We are currently aware of several destroyed facilities, others were damaged to varying degrees," Naftogaz chairman Oleksii Chernyzhov said in a statement.

Experts are currently on site to assess the consequences of the attack.

According to Ukrainian officials, shelling and rocket attacks continued throughout the night in various parts of Ukraine against civilian infrastructure, including gas and electricity plants.

News about the Ukraine war: Selenskyj speaks about rocket attacks in Poland

+++ 1.50 p.m .:

According to President Volodymyr Selenskyj, Ukrainian experts may participate in the investigation of the rocket impact in Poland.

The corresponding confirmation came from Poland, the head of state said on Thursday in front of participants at an economic forum.

"Until the investigation is completed, we cannot say with certainty which missiles or their parts fell on Polish territory," he said in Kyiv.

Earlier, Warsaw had signaled its willingness to allow Ukrainian specialists access to the investigation site if the American investigators did not object.

Contrary to preliminary Western knowledge, Zelenskyy maintained his claim that a Russian rocket had landed in the village of Przewodow near the border on Tuesday.

The crater that formed there was too large to have been caused by just one anti-aircraft missile.

But Zelenskyj restricted that he did not know with 100 percent certainty what happened.

News about the Ukraine war: Rockets hit several cities

+++ 12.15 p.m .:

According to the authorities, several cities in Ukraine have again been shot at with Russian rockets.

Air alert was in effect across the country on Thursday.

The regional administration announced that two infrastructure objects were hit in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

14 people were injured.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy circulated an eyewitness video on Telegram that is said to show how a rocket hits the streets of Dnipro.

According to media reports, Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal said the attack was aimed at a gas production operation and at the Piwdenmash rocket construction company.


Explosions from anti-aircraft fire could be heard over the capital Kyiv.

Four Russian cruise missiles were shot down as they approached the city, the city administration announced after the end of the air alert.

News about the Ukraine war: USA does not expect Ukraine to win quickly

+++ 11.40 a.m .:

According to the US military, the chances of a short-term, military victory for Ukraine in the war started by Russia are not high.

But there is the possibility of a political solution, said US Chief of Staff Mark Milley at a press conference on Wednesday (November 16) in Washington, referring to recent Russian losses.

"The likelihood of a Ukrainian military victory, defined as kicking the Russians out of all of Ukraine, including their claimed Crimea (...), is not high anytime soon," Milley said. 

Ukraine has recently had enormous success in defending against the Russian offensive.

But recently liberated areas like Kherson and Kharkiv are small compared to the challenge of driving Russian forces out of all of Ukraine, Milley said.

"That won't happen in the next few weeks unless the Russian army collapses completely, which is unlikely."

News about the Ukraine war: Ukraine is allowed to participate in investigations

+++ 11.00 a.m .:

After the rocket hit the Polish border area with Ukraine, Warsaw has indicated its willingness to grant Ukrainian specialists access to the investigation site.

A team of Polish and American investigators is currently working there, President Andrzej Duda's foreign policy advisor, Jakub Kumoch, told TVN24 on Thursday.

"If both sides agree - and as far as I know, there are no objections from the American side - this access can be granted soon." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj had previously called for experts from his country to be involved.  

News about the Ukraine war: Russia uses banned landmines

+++ 10.15 a.m .:

According to the international campaign to ban landmines (ICBL) in Ukraine, Russia has used at least seven different types of internationally banned landmines.

It was the only country other than Myanmar to resort to such weapons between mid-2021 and October 2022, according to the annual Landmine Monitor report.

The mines were discovered and partially cleared in areas recaptured from Ukraine.

Moscow accused Kyiv of laying landmines itself.

However, this information could not have been independently verified. 


News about the Ukraine war: Again heavy Russian air raids on Ukrainian infrastructure

+++ 9.20 a.m .:

The Ukraine correspondent of the British

Guardian

, Isobel Koshiw, is in Kobleve and reports on an attack by the Russians this morning:

“Russia appears to be waging another mass attack on Ukraine this morning.

The attacks on critical infrastructure in Odesa and Dnipro were confirmed by the presidential administration and the respective regional heads.

According to official information, the air defense systems in Kyiv and Dnipro are used to shoot down incoming missiles.

Unofficial channels report about the use of anti-aircraft systems in several other cities of Ukraine.”

According to Koshiw, this appears to be another attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

News about the Ukraine war: At least 431 children die in Russian attacks

+++ 6.50 a.m .:

Children often suffer the most in war zones.

According to the Attorney General's Office, 431 children lost their lives in the Ukraine war by Wednesday (November 16).

835 others have been injured since the attack from Russia.

The current number of unreported cases is probably a lot higher, as the legal profession reports.

The background to this is that no definitive figures are available from the occupied territories.

According to information that has not yet been independently confirmed, 2,719 educational institutions were also damaged, 332 of which were completely destroyed.

  • Most children were injured or killed in these regions

  • Donetsk region (423), in the Kharkiv region (264), in the Kyiv region (116)

  • Mykolayiv region (77), in Zaporizhia region (70), in Chernihiv region (68)

  • Luhansk region (64), in the Kherson region (64) and in the Dnepropetrovsk region (31) affected.

  • Source: Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine

Selenskyj continues to believe in Russian missiles - and makes demands

Update from November 17, 2022, 5

a.m.: Volodymyr Zelenskyj calls for the involvement of Ukrainian specialists in investigations into the investigation into the deadly rocket hits in Poland.

“All our information is fully available.

We have given them to our partners since the night, since the first hours, when the world began to find out what happened," Zelenskyy said in his daily video address.

At the same time, Ukrainian experts need access to the information collected on site. 

Russia jokes about rocket hit in Poland

News about the Ukraine war: Russia jokes about rocket hit in Poland

+++ 16.01:

The Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made fun of the deadly rocket hit in Poland.

Ukraine had always wanted to join NATO, now it has entered by force - with an S-300, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's spokeswoman on Wednesday (November 16) picked up a joke on her Telegram channel that had previously been used in circulated on social media.

She then asked Poland for an apology.

"The President of Poland called the crash of the rocket an "accident". Before that, however, Polish politicians had spread "hysteria", allowed themselves to be carried away by "Russophobic outbursts" and summoned the Russian ambassador around midnight.

Warsaw should apologize for this, Zakharova wrote.

News about the Ukraine war: "Russia bears the ultimate responsibility" for rocket impact in Poland

+++ 2:51 p.m .:

Jens Stoltenberg has stated that the missile impact in Poland was most likely caused by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.

However, the NATO chief made it clear who was responsible for the incident.

"However, I want to make it clear that this is not Ukraine's fault," said the Norwegian, before adding: "Russia bears the ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine."

Meanwhile, the Polish government announced that the missile hit was a projectile from the S-300 air defense system.

Debris from such a system was found at the site of the explosion in the Polish village of Przewodow, Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro wrote on Twitter.

This is used by both the Russian and the Ukrainian army.

“A team of Polish prosecutors and technical experts is working on site.

American experts were there too.” The site is scanned using 3D technology.

Missile hit in Poland deliberate attack?

NATO boss Stoltenberg speaks out

+++ 1:16 p.m .:

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has commented on the impact of one or more missiles on Polish territory.

In his view, it was not an intentional attack on the territory of the western defense alliance, Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Brussels.

It is not assumed that Russia is planning offensive actions against the West, he explained.

The 63-year-old added that NATO is currently assuming that the missile parts were used by the Ukrainian air defense system.

However, the investigations are not complete.

There are constant contacts between NATO and Russia – Stoltenberg did not want to comment on whether the two parties agreed on the incident in Poland.

(Talk to agencies)

Source: merkur

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