“The mayor of Kherson, Ihor Kolykhaev, who was kidnapped by the Russians in June 2022, is probably in the torture chamber of the FSB in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Anna Mamonova, a journalist and documenter of war crimes of the Public Interest Journalism Laboratory, reported this on her Facebook page. “I spoke with a person who spent 2.5 years in Simfika (Simferopol — ed.) in the basement of the FSB. It”, — write on: ua.news
The mayor of Kherson, Ihor Kolykhaev, who was kidnapped by the Russians in June 2022, is probably in the torture chamber of the FSB in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Anna Mamonova, a journalist and documenter of war crimes of the Public Interest Journalism Laboratory, reported this on her Facebook page.
“I spoke with a person who spent 2.5 years in Simfika (Simferopol — ed.) in the basement of the FSB. This is a secret prison. The man recently returned to Ukraine. He says that he saw Kolykhayev, the kidnapped mayor of Kherson, in the basement of the FSB. The mayor is holding on,” she wrote.
Mamonova says that the last time she received confirmation about Kolyhayev’s stay in the basement of the FSB in Simferopol was in the spring of the 24th. Nothing has changed in half a year.
“The Russians are hiding where Kolykhaev is being held. They also deny the existence of a prison in the basement of the FSB building. But little by little, people are freed from there, return to Ukraine and secretly tell about who they saw there. Speaking openly is dangerous for prisoners,” the documentarian writes.
According to her, the Russians created a secret prison in the basement of the FSB in 2022. They kidnapped many people in the south and took them to the Crimea.
“They kidnapped so many people in the occupied South – Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Region – and took them to Crimea, that there were not enough cameras. In the basement, the walls were stupidly built, there are no toilets, sinks – nothing like that. Until the 22nd year, there was an FSB server room there. Interrogations are conducted by FSB officers from Russia, not from Crimea. They change rotations,” Mamonova wrote.
The documentarian says that since the kidnapping of the Kherson mayor, he has been held in a separate cell in the ITT, then transferred to Oleshki. Later, he was sent to the secret prison of the Russians in Chongar.
“Then the mayor was transferred to Crimea. This is how Kolykhaev’s path unfolded during the 2.5 years of captivity. I have no evidence that the mayor was tortured in the literal sense – beatings, electric shocks. But any captivity is always abuse. And a crime,” the journalist wrote.
We will remind that the investigators of the police of the Kherson region reported the suspicion to a Russian policeman who, according to the investigation, tortured a local resident.
Earlier, it was identified and reported that a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces was suspected of violating the laws and customs of war. He tortured a resident of Velika Dymerka during the occupation.
As of June 2024, law enforcement officers have already documented almost 130,000 Russian war crimes in Ukraine. On average, Russians commit 150 such crimes per day.
Russia’s shelling of the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine is the most widespread war crime, more than 75,000 such actions have been registered.
In addition, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating cyber attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure as possible war crimes.
All insider information and current information on our Telegram channel, as well as bonuses and breaking news.