The Telegraph
Exclusive: Inside secret torture prison run by Ukraine’s Russian-backed separatists
He says it felt like an earthquake. For three days in a row, Ruslan Zakharov was taken to the basement of a prison that does not technically exist, where his captors would take a field telephone, attach electrodes to his limbs and send electric shocks through his body. “It shakes you all up so hard: half of your body goes numb,” Mr Zakharov, 31, recalls. “You think they’re going to kill you: you feel helpless. You think you’re alone and no one will come to your rescue.” Mr Zakharov, who used to