Kherson museum workers recognized another painting stolen by the Russians

Employees of the Kherson Art Museum recognized a painting by Raimondas Savickas from their collection in a photo taken in the central museum of Tavrida at the end of November last year.

“This work was recorded by an unknown (so far) photographer in three photos at once – all of them were taken in Simferopol’s Central Tavrida Museum at the beginning of November, in the first days after the illegal export of works of art from Kherson to Crimea. There is no doubt that this is the painting “By the Ancient Wall” by Raimondas Savitskas from the collection of the Kherson Art Museum,” the post says.

Employees of the Kherson Art Museum identified 25 paintings from the collection stolen by the Russian occupiers.

The invaders left the Kakhovka City Hospital without medical equipment

This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“From Kakhovka in the Kherson region, the occupiers are taking the medical equipment of the central city hospital to the city of Henichesk in the Kherson region,” the message says.

In the secondary school of the village of Arkhangelsk, Kherson region, burgundy ribbons for the graduates of 2022 were bought in advance, even before the start of a full-scale war. They remained lying there. During the occupation of Arkhangelsk, the Russian military almost completely destroyed the educational institution. None of the teachers of the school agreed to cooperate with the occupying “authorities”.

From February 24, 2022, children’s laughter disappeared from the large renovated school, and the school bell, which gathered students for lessons, fell silent. The Russian army occupied the village in March. According to the headmistress of the school, Tetyana Malyuzhonok, that was the first time the Russians fired at the educational institution, and then they spent the night in the basement.

To show who is in charge, the invaders barricaded the walls of the school. There are almost no surviving windows and doors left in the building, mutilated ceilings.

“Only in December, we installed an interactive blackboard, a class blackboard. Everything in the world came. But a projectile hit here. It was like a mini-gym. In the cool weather, in order not to be led into the two-story building, the children studied here,” said the school director.

She also showed the destroyed school library.

In search of profit, the Russian military ransacked all classrooms, even looked into children’s lockers.

“13 new laptops and headphones, a speaker system were purchased, but all this was destroyed, the boxes were left, the laptops were stolen. Even the projector was taken away. Almost every classroom had a fire extinguisher, now there are a few left, the rest are gone,” says Malyuzhonok.

The food block of the school was also destroyed. Shortly before the war, the kitchen was completely re-equipped. Modern cooking equipment worth about 10,000 US dollars was purchased.

The Russian military also ransacked the garage where the school bus was parked.

“There are no batteries, the tank is empty. The wheels, as it were, were not lowered,” said school bus driver Mykola Balanda.

Where they ate, there they spoiled – this characteristic feature of the soldiers of the occupation forces is emphasized by all residents of the liberated Ukrainian territories. The school in the village of Arkhangelsk was no exception — the Russians messed up all the classes, says the director.

“All the buckets that were there were filled with their feces. That is, people prepared food and immediately went to the toilet. This does not lend itself to any logic,” said Malyuzhonok.

Before the war, almost 200 children studied at Arkhangelsk secondary school. Now they are at the desks of other educational institutions. The director says that the child often calls her and asks when he will be able to return to his native school.

On January 25, the Russians attacked the paramedic-midwifery post in the village of Tokarivka, the regional state administration said.

Russian occupying forces continue to fight with medical facilities in the Kherson region.

This was reported in the regional state administration on January 25.

“Yesterday, rioters attacked a maternity hospital in Kherson, today – a paramedic-midwifery center in the village of Tokarivka, Dar’iv region. The medical facility suffered serious damage – the building was partially destroyed,” the message reads.

They emphasize that the attack by the Russians “did not cause casualties among civilians.”

The day before, on January 24, Russian troops shelled a maternity hospital, a school and a polyclinic in Kherson.

After the deoccupation of the right bank of the Kherson region (including the regional center) in November 2022, the Russians began systematically shelling Kherson and other liberated settlements from the left bank of the Dnieper.

Russia’s favorite targets during the large-scale aggression against Ukraine have become schools, hospitals, universities, as well as their staff, students and patients, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on January 11, 2023.

In the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region, the Russian invaders “expelled to Ukraine” two residents of the Kherson region. The Russians accused them of subversive activities against the occupation authorities.

In a video filmed by the occupiers, a representative of the Russian Federation informs two residents of the temporarily occupied Novotroitsk community that, guided by the position of the so-called Novotroitsk military-civilian administration, in accordance with the protocol of the so-called emergency commission, they will be deported from the part of the Kherson region controlled by the Russian Federation to the controlled part of Ukraine.

The invaders cited pro-Ukrainian propaganda as the reason for the deportation, which prevented the occupation authorities from working.

Previously, similar cases were recorded in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, and this may be the first time in the Kherson region.

Meanwhile, the Russians kidnapped a 34-year-old local resident in the temporarily occupied Heniche district. The press service of the main department of the National Police in the Kherson region reports that the crime took place this month, but the law enforcement officers were informed about it only now. The whereabouts of the prisoner are currently unknown.

On January 13, it became known that in the temporarily occupied Simferopol, the Russians are holding more than 200 deported residents of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions in so-called detention centers. Among them are journalists, activists, volunteers, ATO participants and their relatives.

The Russian Federation plans to allocate 175 billion rubles ($2.4 billion) for the so-called evacuation to Russia of 100,000 residents from the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region. As of the beginning of December, almost 3 million Ukrainians were deported to Russia.

During the occupation of the right-bank part of the Kherson region, doctors and social service workers invented diseases for children so that the Russians would not take them to the Russian Federation. Thus, employees of the Kherson Regional Children’s Hospital falsified the medical cards of orphaned children in order to assure the Russians of the impossibility of their “evacuation” to the territory of the Russian Federation.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, as of January 25, 2023, 14,711 cases of deportation of children to the Russian Federation were recorded.

The Russian military continues to inflict massive strikes on the Kherson region — on Wednesday, January 25, the city of Berislav came under enemy fire.

According to the Kherson regional military administration, the Russians purposefully attacked a place of mass gathering of people in the middle of the day — shells hit a local grocery store where people were.

“Two people died due to Russian shelling. Three local residents were injured in varying degrees of severity. They were hospitalized at a medical facility, where doctors are providing them with the necessary assistance,” the regional military administration reported.