Russian soldiers used a police station as a 'torture camp' where they interrogated people with electric shocks, Ukrainian officer says

Russian soldiers used a police station in a recently regained town as a torture camp, according to a Ukrainian official.

The Associated Press reported that Russian forces had occupied a town in the east of the country for more than six months.

The Russian troops fled as quickly as they could after it was captured by the Ukrainians.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Serhii Bolvinov, the deputy police chief of the Kharkiv region, said that the town's police headquarters were used as torture camps by the Russians.

Bolvinov said in the post that the racists held at least 40 people captive and fed them twice a day with no food or water.

They were tortured according to witnesses. Theeasiest torture was when they got electric shocks.

Insider couldn't independently verify his claims.

Artem said that he was one of the people who were held in the police station. He said he was taken into custody by the Russians after they found his brother's picture.

He said that he was held at the station for more than 40 days and tortured with electricity.

They put two wires in my hand. The generator was powered by electricity. The higher the voltages, the quicker it went. Artem said that they told him to let it go.

They began to ask questions. He said that they said he was lying and that they started spinning it more.

During her time at the police station, she heard screams from other cells.

According to officials, locals were scared to pass the station in case they were grabbed by the Russians.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his speech on Tuesday that his country had regained 4,000 square kilometers of territory.

"Remnants of occupiers and sabotage groups are being detected, traitors are being arrested and full security is being restored," he said.