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When, in early March 2022, Lt Col Valery Sergeyevich Buslov, a 46-year-old Russian military commander, arrived in the Ukrainian city of Balakliia, he promptly ordered his troops to set up checkpoints, hide artillery in the nearby woods, and convert the local police station into a detention camp.

“When the Russians left, we seized dozens of files and weapons from the facility,” said Maksym Blokhin, 41, a war crimes military prosecutor in Kharkiv.

As in other Ukrainian cities occupied by the Russians, Buslov’s invading troops carried lists of people to hunt down in Balakliia, which was captured on 3 March 2022.

Kovryga was taken to the police station where, even before the interrogation, the soldiers started beating him with blows to his face and ribs while he was sitting on a chair, his hands tied behind his back.

Kovryga was returned to the police station, where the Russians started inflicting electric shocks on him using a machine connected to a military radio dating back to the second world war.

Buslov, known to his troops and victims by the nom de guerre of “Granit”, was notified in May of suspicion that he had violated conventions governing the treatment of civilians in wartime.

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