November 18 in the village of In Komysh-Zorya, Zaporizhzhia Region, the Russian military killed a family with two children.
As of the morning of November 19, more than 1,274 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale invasion of Russia. According to the official information of the prosecutors, 437 children died and more than 837 were injured of various degrees of severity.
This is reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
It is emphasized that these figures are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, as well as in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the most children were affected in Donetsk oblast – 423, Kharkiv oblast – 266, Kyiv oblast – 117, Mykolaiv oblast – 77, Zaporizhia oblast – 75, Chernihiv oblast – 68, Luhansk oblast – 64, Kherson oblast – 64, Dnipropetrovsk oblast – 32.
In particular, on November 18 in the village of In Komysh-Zorya, Zaporizhzhia Region, the Russian military shot a family together with two children aged 5 and 14 in their own apartment building.
And on November 17, a 4-month-old boy died of his injuries in the hospital. He was wounded during the shelling of the village. Circuses of the Kharkiv region. It also became known about another child who died as a result of an enemy missile strike on November 17 in the city of Vilniansk, Zaporizhzhia region.
In addition, 2,719 educational institutions were damaged in Ukraine due to Russian bombing and shelling, 332 of them were completely destroyed.
It will be recalled that at the beginning of November, the Secretariat of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada reported on the abduction of 6,032 children by the Russian occupiers.
Police investigators record the consequences of war crimes committed by the Russian army in the Kherson region
This was reported by the communications department of the National Police.
As noted, settlements of the Berislav district were damaged and destroyed as a result of shelling by the Russian army with various types of artillery. Also, the occupiers from the left bank shelled several districts of Kherson with multiple rocket launchers, and buildings were damaged. Over the past day, the police registered and processed 265 statements and reports about criminal offenses and other events in the territory of the Kherson region.
“A resident of the Bilozersk community was exposed for treason, who went over to the side of the enemy and passed on information to the Russian military about the location of his fellow villagers with a pro-Ukrainian position. The traitor may face imprisonment for a term of fifteen years or life imprisonment with confiscation of property,” it says.
It is also noted that a truck was blown up by an enemy mine between the villages of Kiselyvka and Myrne of the Bilozersk community. People were not injured, the car cannot be repaired. Another person blew himself up on a mine laid by the Russian military on the territory of Bilozersk community. In the Beryslav district, a local resident stepped on an enemy mine, now the victim is in the hospital.
“In Kherson, during stabilization measures, the body of a man was found with his hands tied and with a gunshot wound to the head. The identity of the deceased and the circumstances of his death are being established,” the National Police said.
A message was received from the Beryslav district that a local resident found the body of a fellow villager under the destroyed bridge. The police are investigating the circumstances of the man’s death.
A resident of Kherson contacted the police. He said that during the occupation of the city, the Russian military came to his apartment, conducted an illegal search, took hunting weapons and documents for them. The applicant himself was kidnapped by the occupiers and held for 5 days in one of the torture chambers, after which he was released.
Another resident of Kherson became a victim of Russian executioners. The man told the police that he was driving his car along the Beryslav highway in the direction of the village. Daryevka He was stopped by the Russian military, the applicant’s weapon was taken away, after which the man was taken to a place unknown to him, where he was abused and tortured, and he was forced to confess his involvement in the local resistance movement.
The police of the Kherson region is working to document as much as possible all crimes committed by the Russian military in the region, and they do not have a statute of limitations. All perpetrators will be held accountable and will be punished according to the law.
The occupational Ministry of Culture of the Kherson region reported.
On November 19, the occupational Ministry of Culture of the Kherson region announced in its “Telegram” channel that the Kakhovka Historical Museum was evacuated to the Crimea. The department explained this by allegedly “massive shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, which Kakhovka is subjected to.
As the occupiers stated, most of the residents of Kakhovka “left for safe territories.”
“Historical and cultural heritage, as a result of the decision, was also taken to the Crimea to preserve their integrity,” the message says. Kakhovka is located on the left bank of the Dnieper, about eight kilometers upstream from the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. The Kakhovka Historical Museum is a branch of the Kherson Museum of Local Lore, it was opened in 1957.
On the night of November 19, the Russian occupying army shelled Kherson. One of the shells hit a multi-story residential building.
As a result of the shelling, the high-rise was heavily damaged.
Local residents report that an enemy shell hit a high-rise building at night. It is currently unknown whether there are casualties among civilians.
Several apartments on the upper floors are almost completely destroyed. In other apartments, windows were blown out by the shock wave.
The explosions in Kherson rang out around 3 am.
According to preliminary data, Putin’s terrorists were shelling the liberated city from the temporarily occupied Oleshki.
Residents of Kherson are urged to observe the rules of two walls or temporarily leave for safer territory.
A few days ago, Russian troops were already shelling the liberated Kherson. Then the occupiers killed one civilian who died from shrapnel wounds.
After retreating from the right-bank part of the Kherson region, the Russian occupiers are rebuilding their troops and transferring combat-ready units to other directions.
Evidence of Russian war crimes continues to be found in the de-occupied Kherson region. In particular, it became known that the occupiers set up a separate cell for teenagers. This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubynets.
As noted, for the first time a cell was discovered in the territory of the Kherson region, where the Russian occupiers kept teenagers.
“There was a separate cell where teenagers were kept. We are now establishing their ages. People say that some of the boys looked about 14 years old,” the ombudsman wrote.
He noted that no cameras for children or teenagers were found in other de-occupied areas.
Lubynets wrote that in the de-occupied Kherson region, for the first time, the facts were established (from the testimonies of people who were in these torture chambers), when men and women were kept together in the cells of the torture chambers around the clock for weeks at the same time.
According to reports, video surveillance was carried out in each cell. “The 24-hour video surveillance was recorded with sound. This is emphasized separately by our citizens who were tortured and explained that they clearly understood it. Because as soon as the Kherson people started talking about the occupation, people in masks immediately ran to the cameras and brutally beat everyone.” Lubynets said. At the end of October, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that more than a thousand dead bodies had already been found in the liberated territories of three oblasts.
The researchers also discovered 12 places of detention and interrogation in Kherson and Crimea. Witnesses said that they were tortured with electric shocks, mock executions and beatings.
In Kherson, between March and October, the detention and disappearance of 226 people were documented, a quarter of whom were probably tortured, and five died in custody or shortly thereafter. Scientists from the Laboratory of Humanitarian Studies of the Yale School of Public Health came to this conclusion.
Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said the report confirmed warnings from the United States before the conflict that Russia was using pre-compiled capture and destruction lists against civilians.
“This is the strongest evidence that this is happening,” Raymond said.
The report, based on open sources of information, says that most of the 226 people identified were detained by the Russian military or the FSB. The researchers cited several sources who said Russian security forces had lists of the names of the targeted individuals and license plates, as well as other information.
The publication writes that some sources in the report were not indicated for their protection. The researchers also discovered 12 places of detention and interrogation in Kherson and Crimea. The report said at least 55 reported detentions or disappearances were linked to allegations of torture, including beatings, staged executions, electric shocks and torture of relatives. Also, as the journalists write, the report cites the testimony of several witnesses that they were tortured in order to learn information about the positions of Ukrainian units. Others said they were questioned about the leadership of protest movements or opposition groups.
The report states that among those detained or missing were 60 civil servants, as well as 32 people who identified themselves as Crimean Tatars. WP journalists talked about the underground that helped liberate Kherson. According to an anonymous employee of the special services of Ukraine, some fighters and members of the resistance began to be prepared even before the start of a full-scale war with Russia.
Russia spreads rumors of mass killing of prisoners. Military experts claim that the occupiers were killed when they tried to attack the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the surrender, and Russia promotes the version in the media that the Ukrainian defenders executed the prisoners of war.
It was also reported that Britain was running out of ammunition due to the war in Ukraine. Official London has already sent a letter to the munitions company with a demand to increase the production of the necessary shells.
Competent authorities established the facts of torture, beatings and sexual violence of the civilian population.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, showed the cell where the Rashists held Ukrainians for weeks. He said that residents of the Kherson region were subjected to more brutal methods of torture than the Rashists used to do in the Kharkiv, Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
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Lubinets said that for the first time in Kherson Oblast, facts were established that the Russians kept men and women together around the clock for weeks. As a result of the investigation, facts of torture, beating and sexual violence were also established.
In liberated Kherson, a torture chamber unfit for holding people was discovered – the ombudsman
The ombudsman said that surveillance video cameras were installed in the cells. Victims of Russian aggression said that they were constantly eavesdropped and beaten for “inappropriate” conversations.
Lubinets noted that the Rashists created cells for children and teenagers. He shared:
We are now determining their ages. People say that some of the boys looked about 14 years old.
Racists punished the residents of the region for their pro-Ukrainian position and thereby tried to intimidate other local residents. Lubinets said that the occupiers hid their faces from the Kherson people behind masks. However, the competent authorities will definitely identify all the criminals. Earlier in the Kherson region, the police found 63 bodies of civilians tortured by the Russians. The exhumation of the killed is being carried out in the de-occupied part of the region.
In the territories of the Kherson region liberated from the Russian occupiers, more and more facts of abuse of local residents by the invaders are being discovered, said Dmytro Lubinets, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada.
According to him, residents of Kherson region were subjected to more brutal torture, in particular, men and women who were held by the occupiers were kept together in cells, which was not the case in the torture centers found in other regions.
“Torture, beatings, sexual violence, but men and women were not kept together. Moreover, they were not released for weeks,” wrote Lubinets on Friday.
He also reported that in the Kherson region cells where teenagers were kept were also discovered for the first time.
“In other areas, we did not find cameras for children or teenagers,” the ombudsman emphasized.
Lubinets added that these facts are “the most gross and cynical manifestations of violations of the Geneva Conventions.”