The International Criminal Court (ICC) team, accompanied by prosecutors, inspected torture chambers set up by Russian military during the occupation of Kharkiv region, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office reported.

"Head of investigations of international crimes committed in Ukraine from the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court Brenda J. Hollis, together with her team and head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General's Office Yuriy Belousov inspected torture chambers set up by the Russian military during the occupation of Kharkiv region," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

As reported by Spartak Borysenko, a representative of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, law enforcement officers discovered 25 torture chambers in Kharkiv region. According to him, the evidence collected indicates that torture, physical, psychological and sexual violence were used against the detainees. People were given almost no food and were given only technical water to drink. They filed down their teeth, tied their wrists and lifted people's bodies into the air with a crane with a metal hook, pulled out their nails, applied electricity that was supplied through wires tied to various parts of the body, and beaten with rubber truncheons. "We are examining and investigating each fact, working with the victims so that Russia is held accountable for the abuse of people," he emphasized.