After the liberation of the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region, new facts of the atrocities of the Russian invaders became known.
Deputy Mayor of Izyum Vladimir Matsokin spoke about the crimes of the invaders and the situation in the liberated city at the moment on the air of the FREEDOM channel.
"I cannot estimate the number of victims (among civilians), it may be more or less than a thousand people, but I will tell you that very disturbing information is coming from Izyum that mass graves have already been found in our country, the bodies of people who were killed… We already know the names of these people, we already know the circumstances… We know about the prisons, we know the stories from there, how people escaped when the Armed Forces entered… We know that in these prisons women were tortured with electric shocks, mocked, subjected to incredible trials,” – he noted.
"Those stories that we heard, those atrocities ... animals do not behave like that," Matsokin added.
According to him, now the humanitarian situation in Izyum is very difficult, up to 75% of the city has been destroyed, there is no water, electricity, gas, and the streets are strewn with dangerous mines.
“It’s not safe in Izyum today. The city is heavily mined. The Russians, before leaving, covered the city with “petals”, which is very dangerous for passage and travel. Therefore, I would recommend people not to rush to return,” Matsokin said.