Donbass War Torture in 'The Library'

Donbass War
Torture in 'The Library'

‘You might walk into the boiler room, and the entire floor would be covered in blood. People were suffocating and scratching the walls with their nails.’ Vasily Prozorov, a former officer of the Security Service of Ukraine, tells of torture in a secret Ukrainian prison. 'The Library' was in a restaurant at Mariupol airport. According to Vasily, the torture chamber appeared in June 2014, when the Azov* battalion was mopping up DNR supporters in Mariupol.

Olga Seletskaya, a former inmate of ‘The Library’, shared what she went through: ‘They submerged my head in water. I began to drown. I felt I couldn’t breathe and began to pass out. They did it to me several times.’

This is an excerpt from the film Donbass War: Summer 2014, where Vasily shows how and where the Ukrainian military tortured people, and Olga recalls what she experienced. Watch it to find out more details.