Inside Putin's torture camp where Ukrainians were beaten black and blue for two years

New evidence has emerged of the horrific treatment and torture of Ukrainians held in Russian jails.

Shocking photos of the severely emaciated body of Roman Gorilyk were released by the organisation "I want to Live" to highlight the brutal conditions faced by Ukrainians at the hands of their Russian captors.

Mr Gorilyk has literally been reduced to a skeleton, with his body covered in bruises and bearing the scars of torture.

The images are chillingly reminiscent of Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

The Ukrainian was a senior controller at the Chernobyl nuclear power station when it was captured by Russian forces in the early stages of the invasion in 2022.

Along with 168 people who were guarding the nuclear facility, he was taken to Russia via Belarus in March 2022 and put in prison.

Mr Gorilyk was eventually released on May 31 in a prisoner exchange. However 89 people from his group still remain in Russian custody.

Women prisoners have also spoken about their horrific treatment while in Russian custody.

Maryana Chechelyuk was an investigator for the local police in Mariupol when it ws captured by Putin's forces.

She was taken to prison in May 2022 and was held at various times in Donetsk, Yelenovka, Taganrog, Kamyshin, and at a prison colony in Mariupol.

Ms Chechelyuk said the Russians starved and beat her, as well as threatening to shave her head. She claimed her kidneys began to fail, and that she developed back problems and chronic bronchitis. She also returned to Ukraine as part of the prisoners of war swap at the end of May. In total, there are 403 women from Ukraine still in Russian captivity.

The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) recently published a report on the treatment of prisoners of war (PoWs) by the Russians.

The organisation interviewed 60 recently released PoWs over a three month period between December 2023 and February 2024.

It concluded that almost every single prisoner had been subjected to sustained torture during their incarceration.

Danielle Bell, the head of HRMMU, said: "Almost every single one of the Ukrainian POWs we interviewed described how Russian servicepersons or officials tortured them during their captivity, using repeated beatings, electric shocks, threats of execution, prolonged stress positions and mock execution. Over half of them were subjected to sexual violence."

HRMMU also recorded credible allegations of the execution of at least 32 Ukrainian POWs in 12 separate incidents in the three month period.

The organisation says this represents a significant increase from previous periods.

Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin claims the Russians have executed at least 61 PoWs since the beginning of the war.