UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Apr. 1 — The officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), currently wanted by Ukrainian authorities, has been implicated in the torture of a 51-year-old resident of Vovchansk, reported the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office.

Investigators said that in May 2022, Russian forces broke into the man’s home and conducted a search. He was then taken to the building of the local prosecutor’s office, where a torture chamber had been set up. There, he was interrogated by the suspect.

“The operative forced the detainee to call his son — a serviceman in the Armed Forces of Ukraine — and try to persuade him to abandon his service,” the statement said.

When this failed, the suspect struck the man’s head against a table and ordered subordinates to hold him in a basement, prosecutors said.

According to the investigation, the man was later forcibly taken to his son’s home, where Russian forces carried out another search. He was released afterward.

Prosecutors said the suspect was also involved in persecuting pro-Ukrainian locals and suppressing resistance efforts. Documented crimes include the illegal detention of civilians for up to 86 days, systematic torture, the use of electric shocks, and the filing down of teeth.

The case has been sent to court.

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