War Crimes in Ukraine - The Resistance

Updated July 14, 2022 — 4:29pm,first published 4:24pm

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Olekdsndr Fayizov, 41yrs a civilian computer technician demonstrates where Russian soldiers beat his head against the blood stained wall of a room used as a cell in the basement of the Trostyanets railway station used by the Russians as a base, where he was interrogated and tortured. — 20 images

War crimes in Ukraine - The Torture Cell

Survivors reveal torture, beatings and killings they have endured and witnessed in Ukrainian basements.

Ivan, 62, stands in the doorway of a basement room in a school in Yahidne where nearly the entire village of 371 people were held. The seven names on the wall are of those who died.

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Inside the Ukraine war crimes investigation, Part 2: Torture cells

A railway station basement and a schoolroom still show telltale signs of their transformation into places of torture for those who know where to look.

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Alyona Lapchuk at a relative’s home in Kyiv before travelling to give evidence at The Hague about her husband Vitaliy Lapchuk’s torture and murder by Russian soldiers in Kherson.

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Inside the Ukraine war crimes investigation, Part 3: The resistance

Outnumbered and outgunned, a brave few Ukrainian civilians have fought back against the Russian onslaught, forming resistance units to defend homes and loved ones.

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