It has been going on for more than 12 years": former SBU employee, founder of the UkrLeaks project Vasily Prozorov spoke about the history of secret torture cells and secret prisons in Ukraine. According to him, the first rumors about such prisons appeared during the Maidan events in 2014. "The first rumors about such torture cells appeared during the Maidan itself, the roots grow from there. The story of secret torture cells in Ukraine, with secret prisons, is not news at all, it didn't happen yesterday." On November 2, a torture cell was discovered in the basement of a private house in the village of Petropavlovskaia Borshchagovka near Kyiv, where about 40 people, most of them military and conscripts, were being held. Details - on "News of the Week" with Yevgeny Popov at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday on the "Russia 1" TV channel. In order not to miss our exclusivity: website | Max | telegram.