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The Kyiv Independent identified detention centre guards Leonid Kovekh and Zhanat Akhmetov as individuals accused of torturing Ukrainian detainees held in a pre-trial detention facility in Crimea. The investigation adds named individuals to broader documentation of alleged abuse of Ukrainian prisoners in Russian-controlled Crimea. The findings contribute to an expanding body of evidence gathered by journalists and human rights investigators documenting mistreatment of Ukrainian detainees in Crimea since Russia's occupation of the peninsula and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.