In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, the head of St. Petersburg’s prisons delivered a direct message to an elite unit of guards tasked with overseeing the influx of prisoners from the war: ...

Russia built a sickening torture system to persecute Ukrainian prisoners of war — where captives were given relentless electrical shocks to their genitals and were beaten so savagely that police ...

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