Due to damage by the occupiers to the shut-off gates of the HPP, the Kakhov reservoir became shallow

The water level in the Kakhov reservoir has dropped by 1.4 m. Local residents are advised to stock up on water. This is reported by the Marganetsky Vodokanal.

“Currently, the situation with the water level in the Kakhov reservoir allows the enterprise to work normally, but it is recommended to keep a 3-day supply of water as a precautionary measure and not to spread unverified information,” the statement reads.

The company advised the residents of Marganets, Marganetska, Myrivska and Tomakivska territorial communities to stock up on water in case of an emergency.

Communal officials added that in case of damage to the centralized water supply system by the occupiers, the developed action plan for providing the population with water will be applied.

Currently, the water level in the Kakhovsky Reservoir is 14.6 m against the norm of 16 m. This happened due to damage by the occupiers to the shut-off valves of the Kakhovsky HPP.

The Russian occupiers are intensifying the pressure on the population in the uncontrolled part of the Kherson region. Yuriy Sobolevskyi, the first deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, told about it.

According to him, the invaders are increasing filtering measures in the region. They forbid people to leave the occupied territories, close hospitals and continue to take medical equipment to Genichesk.

“In addition, they are conducting such raids now – they are looking for parents who have organized education for their children under our program. They even threaten to deprive them of parental rights,” Sobolevskyі emphasized.

In the Kherson region, some villages have been so destroyed that their restoration needs discussion, — Sobolevskyi

There are villages in the Kherson region that were destroyed by the Russian occupation army to such an extent that their restoration needs discussion. On February 1, First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yury Sobolevsky said this.

“There are settlements where the degree of destruction is 60-80%, there is nothing there anymore. Almost no whole house remained there. There is no school there, there are no whole administrative buildings, there are no medical institutions, everything is broken and looted. And there it will be necessary to discuss it with the community. It will be necessary to talk to people and offer alternatives. The fact that it makes no sense to restore in the old form, I agree 1000%. Unpopular as it may be, we must still move into the future, and we must really use effectively and transparently the resources we will have for recovery.

And this is extremely important, first of all in relations with donors. In fact, they too should see logic in all our actions. Then there will be trust, and then there will be normal interactions,” he said.

The First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council noted that in the de-occupied part of the region, the main recovery efforts are now focused on critical infrastructure, medicine, and transport communications facilities.

“Titanic efforts will be needed to demine our territory, because we have misfortune, we have victims every week precisely because of mines,” said Sobolevskyі.

He also agrees with the statement that there is no logic in restoring absolutely all institutions in their former form.

“There is no need, no common sense, no logic in restoring absolutely everything that was destroyed. Where we had understaffed institutions, in particular educational ones, in fact, it does not make sense to restore each of the destroyed such institutions. 

It makes sense to create them where they will really be needed, make them modern, make them safe. And if we take the example of educational institutions, then organize a normal transportation of children to this institution, and there will be a normal educational process, and normal socialization for children, and modern safe conditions for them. Exactly the same approach is actually applied to medical facilities,” Sobolevskyi said.

He emphasized that the plan to restore both the educational and medical networks must fully meet the standards of accessibility of services for the population.

“We must take into account that decentralization has taken place in our country, and taking into account the priority of community interests, we must restore this structure,” Sobolevsky believes.

The Russian occupiers shelled the liberated part of the Kherson region 42 times over the past day.

This was reported by the Kherson regional military administration.

It is noted that the shelling was carried out from artillery, MLRS and mortars.

The occupiers shelled Kherson 8 times in the past day. Due to enemy attacks, according to the regional military administration, the houses of residents were damaged in the city.

“Last day, 1 person died due to Russian aggression, and 1 more resident of Kherson Region was injured,” the administration said.

The Russian occupiers shelled the territory of the Kherson region 54 times the day before last. Residential buildings were damaged as a result of enemy attacks.

Russian invaders shelled the Kherson port on Sunday, as a result of which two foreign ships were damaged and oil products leaked into the Dnipro.

On January 29, a hospital in Kherson came under fire from the Russian occupiers. As a result of the blows, the nurse was injured.

On Thursday, January 26, one person was killed and three others were injured as a result of shelling in the village of Kochubeivka, Kherson region.

Over the past day, the police of the Kherson region received 347 statements and reports from citizens about various events. 36 reports related to war crimes of the Russian army, on which the police opened criminal proceedings, reports the Police of the Kherson region.

Shelling in the Kherson region

Russian troops insidiously shelled the peaceful communities of Berislavsky and Kherson districts with rocket salvo systems, heavy artillery and mortars. Residential buildings, commercial buildings, shops were damaged and destroyed, cars were mutilated by shrapnel from shells. Unfortunately, there is a dead and wounded among the civilian population.

Residential buildings in the coastal zone were the most affected in the regional center. The police continue to work in intense mode at the sites of enemy attacks and collect material evidence.

Mine danger

A 46-year-old local resident who was collecting firewood near the abandoned trenches of representatives of the Russian army was blown up by an enemy mine near the village of Muzykivka. The man was hospitalized, the same day he died from his injuries.

War crimes of the Russian army during the occupation

The police received a report from a resident of the village of Davydov Brid that in August, during the occupation of the village, Russian soldiers poured gasoline on her house and set it on fire. According to the applicant, there were ammunition inside, which detonated. As a result of the actions of the Russian military, the house and the summer kitchen were completely destroyed, the garage and outbuildings were damaged.

War crimes of the Russian army in the occupied territory

A message was received from the temporarily occupied village of Holopristan community that at the beginning of November last year, the Russian military abducted a 48-year-old man and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

Nothing is known about the fate of the 63-year-old resident of the temporarily occupied city of Nova Kakhovka. According to relatives, at the beginning of October last year, Russian soldiers came to the man’s home and, under the threat of using weapons, took him to an unknown direction.

According to all the facts, police investigators opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 “Violation of the Laws and Customs of War” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The Russians kidnapped two residents of the Holoprystan and Novokakhov communities of the Kherson region.

This was reported by the regional police. In the Holoprystan community, the invaders kidnapped a 48-year-old resident of one of the villages. The kidnapping happened at the beginning of November 2022. The further fate of the prisoner is unknown.

And in the Novokakhov community, Russian invaders kidnapped a 63-year-old resident of the administrative center.

The kidnapping happened at the beginning of October last year. A resident of Novaya Kakhovka was kidnapped at gunpoint. A pre-trial investigation is ongoing.

The Russian occupiers have restricted entry and exit from Ulyanivka in the Kherson Region.

Kherson is shelled every day. Only yesterday he was already under fire several times. The river port was under the enemy’s sights. Warehouses were damaged there.

The Ostriv district was also shelled — now it is one of the most dangerous districts of the city. After all, the Russian army is standing right next to it on the other bank of the Dnieper.

The occupiers also ransacked neighboring villages, including Antonivtsi. It is known that private houses were damaged there. Half of the village has already been destroyed by Russian artillery.

There has also been no electricity or water for several months. The only hope is for volunteers. — I have about 3,500 people left in the village. There were 13,000, says Serhii Ivashchenko, head of the village of Antonivka.

About 50,000 people remain in Kherson itself. Before the full-scale invasion, 300,000 Ukrainians lived here.

However, the city is still alive. Public transport, post office, shops and even cafes are open.

People do not leave despite the fact that explosions are constantly heard in Kherson. According to the Kherson regional military administration, the Russians shelled the city eight times yesterday. In general, one person died in the region only in the past day, and another resident was injured.

The front-line village of Prybuzke, Mykolaiv region, was under enemy fire for nine months. Now it is slowly recovering from the terrible shelling.

Peaceful people die from daily shelling, which the enemy only intensifies.

The occupiers are intensifying their shelling of Kherson, and there is no longer a single safe district, street or house in the city. Heavy guns and rocket artillery are fired randomly, targeting hospitals, high-rise buildings and private residences. Locals die every day, because many people still remain in the city – some do not have the finances to leave, others – do not want to leave their homes and hometown.

Part of Volodymyr’s grandfather’s house burned down after being hit by a shell. “Constantly, during the day and at night, they worked, from and to, but there was no such thing as a direct hit and it caught fire immediately. No, I will be here until the end, I will not go anywhere, I have lived here for 30 years, how can I quit and whom will I quit, everything will be stretched,” the man says.

The occupiers are shelling Kherson densely and chaotically around the clock. Nowadays, there is not a single safe area left in the city, they can fly across the Dnipro at any time and anywhere.

72-year-old Lyudmila Oleksandrivna lived in a small private house a few days ago, now it has been destroyed. She was saved by her late daughter, the woman says. The shell flew straight into the roof of her apartment and exploded overhead. “In the very epicenter, the saucepan is on the stove, I was preparing a memorial dinner, today is 14 years since my daughter went to another world, I heard the sound of a rocket flying, I begged Natalochka, don’t take me away and the blow went off,” the woman says.

The pensioner was pulled out by a stranger who was walking down the street. He saw the consequences of the explosion and pulled the old woman out from under the rubble, now Lyudmila Oleksandrivna lives with relatives. Such people who lost their homes in a day by several dozen. The worst thing, say the townspeople themselves, is that they are getting used to death, which is always nearby. “You get used to shelling, you have nowhere to go. It’s scary, you’re running around those rooms, there’s nowhere to hide, because you don’t know where it’s coming from, falling from all sides,” people say.

The echoes of explosions from enemy artillery roll throughout the city, the windows that have survived in some places tremble. In the middle of this chaos, two women with children go to get humanitarian aid, they have nothing to buy food with. In Kherson, Olena stayed with her mother and two small children: a boy – 7, and a girl – 5. “The children are responding, the boy’s hands are shaking and the girl is afraid, and I am also afraid,” – says the children’s grandmother.

Children jump at every sound of an explosion in the city. There are only two people left in their high-rise building, but despite the daily risks, the women still refuse to leave. “We are here for the city to live. If we are not there, then there will be nothing at all, there will be a wild field,” Olena is convinced.

Others think so too, that’s why windows broken by rolling pins are hastily covered with wooden boards, somewhere they patch the roof on their own. Communal workers take away broken glass and bricks lying around houses and fill potholes on the roads. All this under the artillery cannonade of the occupiers, which is tearing the city to pieces. Kherson is struggling.