He tried to persuade them to cooperate and kept them in the local jail.

This is reported by the Prosecutor General's Office.

"The deputy head of the Federal Service of the National Guard of the Russian Federation for the Rostov region has been notified of the suspicion of a police colonel who, since March 2022, has been in charge of Russian Guard servicemen and representatives of illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation in the territory of the temporarily occupied Kherson region," the prosecutor's office informed. 

The investigation established that in April 2022, on his instructions, the occupiers tortured two detained local residents in order to obtain information from them about their involvement in the Armed Forces, the whereabouts of Ukrainian defenders and the Defense Forces.

For several days, the men were held in the seized administration building of the State Government of Ukraine in the Kherson region, as well as in the local detention center, where they were systematically beaten with batons, threatened with violence and electrocuted. 

All the time, they tried to win over the prisoners to their side and force them to agree to cooperate with the law enforcement agencies.

"Under the procedural guidance of the Kherson regional prosecutor's office, the colonel of the Roshvardiya was informed in absentia about the suspicion of ill-treatment of prisoners of war (Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)," the report says.

It will be recalled that 

partial mobilization has been announced in Russia 

due to the war against Ukraine.

Mobilization activities will begin today, September 21.

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