SBU reports suspicion of Russia's chief jailer

This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine.

The SBU has collected evidence of Gostev's involvement in the Russian aggression. He was reported on suspicion under part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - actions aimed at violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or seizure of state power.

On the Kremlin's instructions, he created a network of Russian prisons in the temporarily occupied part of our state under the guise of correctional and medical correctional facilities. The corresponding decision of Moscow was enshrined in the order No 97-r signed by the head of the Russian government Mikhail Mishustin," the report said.

The investigation showed that the occupants used the created prisons as "concentration camps" and torture centres where residents of the temporarily seized regions of Ukraine were kept. In prisons the aggressor used torture, in particular, used against people electric current and staged shootings.

It is noted that it is Gostev who determines the "regime" of prisons and appoints their heads.

Thus, he personally organises and controls the participation of his "subordinates" in punitive measures against members of the resistance movement in the temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine," the SBU added.

At the moment, the suspect is in Russia. Complex measures to bring Gostev to justice are ongoing.