The longest air alarm was recorded in the Kherson region

Kherson region recorded the longest air alert since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia on February 24, 2022.

This is evidenced by one of the air alert services.

An air alert was announced in the Kherson region yesterday at 21:59. Now it has been going on for more than 14 hours.

Explosions rang out in Kherson on Thursday, January 26, during an air raid warning. “Explosions can be heard in Kherson,” correspondents from the scene reported.

As a result of the shelling of the administrative building in Kherson region, one person was killed and four were injured

As a result of the morning shelling by the Russians of the administration building in the village of Kochubeivka, Beryslav district, according to preliminary information, one person was killed and four were injured.

This is reported by the Kherson Regional Military Administration.

“In the morning, the Russian army shelled the village of Kochubeivka of the Berislav district,” the report says.

It is noted that the enemy attacked the administrative building with aimed fire.

According to preliminary information, as a result of the Russian attack, one person died, four people were injured of varying degrees of severity. One victim is in serious condition, doctors are fighting for her life.

On January 25, the Russian army shelled the Kherson region 36 times, including a rocket attack, two civilians were killed and five were wounded, the Kherson regional military administration reported.

“According to the information of the Kherson regional military administration, the Russian invaders shelled the territory of the Kherson region 36 times. (…) Last day, the Russian army killed 2 civilians, 5 people were wounded of varying degrees of severity,” the message reads.

The occupiers were fired with artillery, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, and tanks, and a rocket attack was also carried out in the region.

The Russian army shelled Kherson 5 times – they attacked residential quarters of the city. Enemy shells hit the houses of Kherson residents, added to the regional military administration.

In the port of Kherson, two Turkish ships were damaged as a result of a Russian missile attack.

The Russian military covered with massive mortar fire the road that connects the city of Berislav with the surrounding villages. A VAZ-2109 car with civilians came under fire, the driver and passenger were seriously injured and bleeding. Thanks to the timely actions of the police, people were saved.

The first to receive a signal about the wounded was the police crew consisting of the employees of the Kamian District Department of the Main Department of the National Police in the Dnipropetrovsk Region, Kot Vitaliy and Pytsik Anton, who serve in the Kherson Region as part of a consolidated detachment. Law enforcement officers patrolled the area and arrived at the scene within minutes. They quickly assessed the condition of the victims, called an ambulance and began to provide first aid to the driver and passenger. A 39-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man had numerous shrapnel wounds and extensive bleeding.

The police had a first aid kit and, knowing their first aid skills, applied tourniquets and stopped the bleeding. The ambulance team took the injured to the hospital, where they are provided with qualified assistance.

Police crews are on duty 24 hours a day in the de-occupied territories and are often the first to arrive at the sites of shelling, where they provide first aid to victims in the first minutes after a tragedy, which are crucial in saving lives. Every police officer knows how to act when a person is on the verge of life and death.

Russian invaders kidnapped a man in one of the villages of Kakhovsky district of the region.

This was reported by the Kherson region police. Russians kidnapped a 30-year-old man from his friends’ house. The prisoner was taken to an unknown direction. His further fate is also unknown. A pre-trial investigation into the abduction of a person is ongoing.

Cases of deportation of Ukrainian citizens from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region to Russia have become more frequent. This was said on January 26 by the Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yuriy Sobolevskyi.

In particular, there is information that the Russian occupying army deported the residents of the village of Nechaeve in order to settle their soldiers in empty houses and cottages.

“Unfortunately, there have been more frequent cases when our people are forced to leave their homes under the threat of violence. This applies to the zone 10-15 km from the Dnipro. This settlement is next to Oleshkі, actually across the Dnipro from Kherson. They have quite a large concentration of troops there, and positions from which they shell Kherson,” said Sobolevskyі.

He noted that forced passporting is ongoing in the occupied settlements, and some cash payments are promised for obtaining a Russian passport.

“But the absolute majority of people who are forced to leave are trying to get either to one of the countries of the European Union, or through third countries — to Ukraine. This is an extremely difficult route now, it can only be done through Crimea, and there is quite a lot of filtering,” Sobolevsky emphasized.

He added that people are afraid to go, because they risk not getting to a safe place, but to a cell with the Russian occupiers.

Sobolevskyi also noted that work on the exchange of prisoners of war is well established in Ukraine, but it is very difficult to release civilians held hostage by the Russians.

“And the Russian side is very reluctant to hand over these people, and many of them are not registered, that is, they have not given them any legal status. They are simply kept in cells,” said the deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council.

Currently, approximately 55-60 thousand inhabitants remain in Kherson. Such figures were given by the first deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yuriy Sobolevsky.

According to him, people continue to leave the city – almost every day residential areas are shelled by Russian troops from the left bank of the Dnieper. According to him, every day 50-100 people leave Kherson, these are those who are evacuated in an organized manner, on special trains.

Many people travel in their own vehicles. The official recalled that before the start of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the population of the regional center numbered almost 320 thousand people.

Yuri Sobolevskyі also noted that temporary evacuation under the current conditions is the most acceptable solution. It is very dangerous to stay in the city, both because of the shelling and because of the large number of mines.