Overview

• Andriy Pereverzev provided new firsthand testimony of torture in a June United24 interview following his return in an early-2025 prisoner exchange.
• He described interrogators using a Soviet-era TA-57 telephone to deliver escalating electric shocks through wires in a method dubbed “Calling Putin.”
• His captors burned the phrase “Glory to Russia” into his abdomen with a medical cautery tool as a form of symbolic humiliation.
• Pereverzev recounted beatings with a plastic bottle, electric shocks to open wounds, forced recitations of the Russian anthem and FSB-style interrogations.
• His account adds to mounting evidence of widespread war crimes and systematic mistreatment of Ukrainian POWs by Russian forces.