One vile dungeon is the playground of a vicious torturer known as “The Maniac”, – real name reportedly Serhiy Konoplytsky – who uses a surgeon’s kit to mutilate his victims. Prisoners are allegedly shocked with electric wires attached to their genitals, have their fingers bent until they break, or are beaten by former boxers. Sounds of screams are piped through speakers in the prisons as some inmates are stripped naked and left to sleep on wooden pallets beneath blinding lights. The brutality of the dungeons is said to be designed to terrorize the population and deter any local opposition. Locals have dubbed the “Isolation Prison” as the “The Place Where People Disappear”.
Oleksandr Grishchenko, a middle-aged civil servant, was slung into a torture dungeon after being wrongly accused of being a spy by a henchman for the Putin-backed Luhansk People’s Republic. Speaking to Euromaidan Press, which reports about the Russian puppet state, Grishchenko laid bare what happened on arrival at “Batman Prison” – where he was met by The Maniac. First, he was punched by a former professional boxer with a huge broken nose, who was now using his skills to abuse prisoners. Then he said he was stripped naked and electrocuted before his arms were stretched and tied with cords.