Investigators of the National Police and prosecutors found and inspected a torture pit with dead bodies at a recreation centre in the Kharkiv Region, the head of the investigation department of the National Police in Kharkiv Region, Serhiy Bolvinov, has said.
"During the inspection of the deoccupied territories, investigators found the 'HQ' of Russian servicemen near the village of Borova at the Svitlo Shakhtarya recreation centre, where they dug a torture pit and left the dead in it," he said.
A resident of Borova found the torture pit and reported it to the police.
The occupiers abducted her grandson Serhiy Avdeyev, a former participant in the government antiterrorist operation in Donbas, on 9 September. They tortured and killed him, the body was found by the grandmother after Russian troops left the recreation centre.
According to the father of the victim, the body had many cut wounds and 15 gunshot wounds. Serhiy's relatives reburied his body.
Investigators and prosecutors found that there are two more bodies in the pit - they are handcuffed to each other, both wearing civilian clothes. The two men are approximately 30-40 years old, they are handcuffed with their left hand to their right leg.
The bodies had gunshot wounds to the skull and temple.