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Ukraine Names Second Russian Soldier Who Tortured Lithuanian Volunteer in Secret Melitopol Prison
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the National Police, and the Office of the Prosecutor General—working together with law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Lithuania—have identified a Russian serviceman involved in torturing a Lithuanian volunteer in temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region.
The SBU reported this on December 8.
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The evidence was collected through the efforts of an international investigative task force.
In November of this year, thanks to a joint investigation, Ukraine extradited to Lithuania a captured Russian soldier who had tortured the Lithuanian volunteer.
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Investigators have now identified his accomplice. The individual has been confirmed as the perpetrator’s fellow serviceman—Russian national Rabadan Abdulganiyev, a senior inspector with the military police of the 177th Separate Marine Regiment of the Caspian Flotilla of Russia.
Case materials show that both Russian servicemen tortured prisoners held in a makeshift jail set up by occupying forces at the captured Melitopol airfield.
Among the victims was the Lithuanian volunteer, who had been assisting Ukraine’s Defense Forces since the start of the full-scale invasion.
According to the investigation, detainees in this torture chamber were locked in cramped metal boxes, strangled until they lost consciousness, suspended by their arms, doused with ice-cold water in freezing conditions, and electrocuted.
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Based on evidence gathered by the SBU and foreign partners, Abdulganiyev has been charged in absentia with violating the Geneva Conventions and the laws and customs of war under Articles 100 and 103 (Part 1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania.
Because the suspect remains in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, authorities are continuing comprehensive measures to bring him to justice for war crimes.
Previously, a case involving three Russian commanders, who are implicated in the deaths of 20 people in Chernihiv, has been referred to court. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General on December 4.
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