Officials under Aleksandr Shtoda alleged to systematically torture and starve detainees at Sizo 2 in Taganrog

The director of Russia’s notorious Taganrog prison, where officials are accused of overseeing the systematic torture and starvation of hundreds of Ukrainian detainees, has been notified by authorities in Kyiv that he is suspected of having committed a war crime.

Ukraine’s national police service and its chief war crimes prosecutor announced on Thursday that Aleksandr Shtoda, head of the Sizo 2 pre-trial detention centre in Taganrog, had been formally placed under investigation.