Ukraine war: 'Torture chamber' found in children's hospital

A man who had his cheek cut out before being shot in the heart, another who was kidnapped and burned with a flamethrower, and a 'torture chamber' filled with bodies inside a children's hospital: These are just a handful of horrors inflicted on the Ukrainian city of Bucha as the full brutality of Vladimir 's army is laid bare.

Survivors of a month-long Russian occupation - endured in cold, dark silence after Putin's troops cut off all links with the outside world - are just now starting to emerge from basements and makeshift bunkers to tell tales of the extraordinary suffering they were made to endure.

Vladislav Kozlovsky, who returned to Bucha at the outbreak of war to care for his mother and grandmother, told The Telegraph how two men he knew had tried to escape through an abandoned glass factory but were found by the Russians. One was shot in the back of the head. The other had his cheek cut out before being shot in the heart.