"Doctor Evil": Russian mediс who tortured POWs is served with notice of suspicion

Ukrainian law enforcement officers have served Russian medic Ilya Sorokin, known as Doctor Evil, with a notice of suspicion in absentia for the cruel treatment of prisoners of war.

Sorokin is implicated in torture at a penal colony in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. According to investigators, he beat Ukrainian POWs with electric shock devices and denied them medical assistance.

Source: National Police of Ukraine; Office of the Prosecutor General

Details: Sorokin, 35, served as a medical worker at Penal Colony No. 10 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Republic of Mordovia.

The investigation found that he systematically committed acts of violence against Ukrainian prisoners of war – shocking them with electric stun devices until they lost consciousness or suffered temporary paralysis of certain body parts, and beating them with a metal pipe and other improvised weapons.

The wounded soldiers received neither pain relief nor wound dressings from Sorokin.

The medic has been served with a notice of suspicion in absentia for the cruel treatment of POWs, which constitutes a war crime under Article 438.1 of Ukraine's Criminal Code.

The offence carries a penalty of 8 to 12 years' imprisonment.

Sorokin is currently in Russian territory. Law enforcement agencies say they are working on locating and detaining him and bringing him to justice.

Background:

• Journalists at the Skhemy investigative project have established that Ilya Sorokin was born and lives in the Mordovian settlement of Potma. He is married and has two daughters.
• He started work at the medical unit of penal colony No. 10 in 2018. He enlisted at the end of 2023, adopting the alias "Doctor", and is now likely to be serving in the logistics units of the Russian armed forces.

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