Ukrainian authorities discovered a room that Russians used to detain and torture children during the occupation of Kherson, Dmytro Lubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada, said on Dec. 14.
According to testimonies from locals, other torture victims in the facility knew that Ukrainian children had been kept there by Russian security services, who had called the room “the children's cell.”.
One 14-year-old boy was arrested and later tortured just for taking a picture of broken Russian equipment, Lubinets said.
"We recorded the torture of children for the first time," said Lubinets.
"I thought that the bottom could not be broken after Bucha, Irpin... but we really reached the bottom in Kherson.".
Dozens of torture chambers have been discovered across the liberated areas in Kherson, Kharkiv, and Donetsk oblasts.
Local prosecutors say they have found four locations so far in Kherson where Ukrainians were tortured. »
