Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations report.

Wires from the hand-cranked Soviet TA-57 field telephone are connected to prisoners’ ears, fingers, feet and genitals, sending an excruciating 80-volt electric shock, according to a report due to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council next month.

Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, the UN’s torture expert who wrote the report, told the Telegraph that “the scale is really off the charts about how many people who are detained are subjected to some form of degrading or inhumane treatment.” 4

“It’s not only on an individual level; this is widespread and systematic, amounting to war crime

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