# Torture chambers in Ukraine have been known about since 2014, lawmaker says

https://mins.news/en/item/132165

- TASS, 2026-11-06 10:41 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2213791

> Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada member Alexander Dubinsky said reports of torture chambers run by the SBU, police and neo-Nazis had been known since 2014. He said the secret-prison case in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka near Kiev drew attention because authorities had to acknowledge it nationally without delay.

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