In the Kherson region, terrorists are shelling medical facilities, residential buildings and shops, the police said

Over the past day, law enforcement officers recorded 36 war crimes committed by the occupiers and their henchmen in the Kherson region. On all the facts, proceedings were initiated under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Violation of the Laws and Customs of War.”

According to the press service of the police of the Kherson region, it is about terrorist attacks and looting.

Shelling

The invaders continue to inflict massive shelling on the de-occupied settlements of Beryslav and Kherson districts with rocket launchers, mortars and heavy artillery.

In the Beryslav district, one of the private yards was hit, killing two women. Another injured woman was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Kherson is also under round-the-clock shelling from the enemy, who is targeting the center, as well as the Korabel, Zhytloselishche, KhBK and Tavriyskyi microdistricts. There is a hit on

Looting

In the village of Pyatikhatki during the occupation, armed militants took a VAZ-21063 car with a trailer from a local resident. The enemy also damaged the man’s house. There, the occupiers ransacked the farm, stealing 700 liters of diesel fuel, chainsaws, canisters, 5 tons of wheat, a gasoline generator, and office equipment.

And in the village of Borozenskoe, terrorists took a “ZIL-MMZ” truck from a local resident, and stole all household appliances, car tires and a household compressor from the house.

A similar thing happened in the village of Tomarine, where armed militants broke into the private residence of a local resident, stole all the belongings from the house and took them away in a seized VAZ-21051 car.

In the urban-type village of Velyka Oleksandrivka during the occupation, terrorists looted a farm, taking away all agricultural equipment and property. After the robbery, they destroyed farm buildings and production premises, as well as mined agricultural lands.

During the occupation, the Russians robbed a local resident and a farm in Pyatikhatki, Kherson region.

This was reported by the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in the Kherson Region.

Russian invaders stole a VAZ-21063 car with a trailer from a local resident and damaged his house.

And from the farm, the Russians stole 700 liters of diesel fuel, a chainsaw, canisters, 5 tons of wheat, a gasoline generator, and office equipment.

According to the facts of the Russian looting, a pre-trial investigation is underway to prosecute all those involved.

Russian troops attacked Kherson seven times in the past day – targeting warehouses, private and apartment buildings.

This was announced by the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Yaroslav Yanushevich.

According to him, on December 25, Russian aggressors shelled the territory of the Kherson region 33 times. Peaceful settlements of the region suffered from fire from artillery, MLRS, mortars and tanks. The enemy attacked Kherson seven times. Aimed at warehouses, private and apartment buildings.

The head of the Regional Military Administration emphasized that civilians were not harmed last night.

In turn, the police over the weekend opened 36 criminal proceedings on the facts of war crimes committed by the Russian invaders in the Kherson region, two women were killed during enemy shelling of one of the villages of the Beryslav district, and the third victim was hospitalized in a serious condition.

“The enemy continues to massively bombard the Kherson region with multiple rocket launchers, mortars and heavy artillery. Settlements of Beryslav and Kherson districts were affected,” the report says.

It is noted that during the artillery shelling of one of the villages of the Beryslav district, two women who were in the yard of the house were killed, and the third victim was hospitalized in a serious condition.

The regional center is under the fire of the occupiers around the clock. High-rise and private buildings, a medical facility, warehouses and shops in the city center, Korabel, Zhytloselishche and Tavriyskyi microdistricts were damaged there.

 “Over the past two days, the police have opened 36 criminal proceedings on the facts of war crimes committed by the Russian invaders in the Kherson Region,” the message concludes.

After massive Russian missile attacks on Kherson and the region, the number of people who agree to temporary evacuation has increased significantly. The first deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, Yuriy Sobolevskyi, announced this at the briefing, the correspondent reports.

“Now we have such a tendency that people are leaving. People agree to voluntary temporary evacuation. Yesterday, 250 people left, even a little more. The day before yesterday – 150. This is an approximate number. People leave every day. But we see only people who agreed to voluntary evacuation and turned to the military administration. There are also people who leave on their own. We don’t see this until people come to another region and register as internally displaced persons,” said Sobolevsky.

At the same time, he emphasizes that the evacuation situation remains very difficult. Because after the de-occupation of the right-bank part of Kherson region, a large number of people wanted to return, despite all the risks.

Sobolevsky added that the local authorities emphasize that it is too early to return to the region due to the security situation, and call on the residents of the region to evacuate.

The Kherson region was shelled 33 times by Russian troops over the past day, December 25, and there were no civilian casualties.

The Russian occupiers and their local proxies, fleeing from Kherson, stole the monument to Potemkin, what they call his relics and other symbols, as they thought, of the “Russianness” of Kherson.

But they forgot one Potemkin. A huge bust of Yurik Stepanyan, who is also the author of the copy of the monument that stood in Potemkin Square, is still standing in the artist’s workshop.

His photo was shown by Kherson artist Oleksandr Zhukovsky.

Law enforcement officers exhumed the bodies of the victims of Muscovites in the Berislav district. This is done for forensic medical examination.

As reported in the press service of the Kherson regional prosecutor’s office, proceedings have been initiated on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder. According to Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the guilty face life imprisonment.

The exhumation of the bodies of the 61-year-old and 80-year-old villagers in the Novovorontsov community involved police investigators, experts, as well as employees of the prosecutor’s office of the Kherson region.

It is currently known that two men died in April of this year as a result of enemy fire. Residents of the same village buried the older man in his own yard, and the younger man in the local cemetery.

Kamianska Sich National Park in the Kherson region is a steppe, more than 50 kilometers of the Dnieper coastline, a place of protection for more than 90 species of rare animals. Defense forces of Ukraine liberated the territory of the park on November 11 after 8 months of occupation.

The director of the national park, Serhiy Skoryk, spoke about how the park survived the occupation.

Scientific work continued during the occupation. Until the Russians mined the territory of the park before retreating, scientists kept an annals of nature, recording seasonal changes: where birds built new nests, where roe deer migrated, when primroses bloomed, etc. Park workers also put out fires on their own: they took a tractor with a tank from the farmer. Now the territory is completely deoccupied, but the employees do not have access to most of the park due to shelling and mines.

The damage in the park has already begun: in mid-October, thanks to satellite analysis, it was determined that almost 635 hectares of valuable areas, where vulnerable red-listed species were growing, had burned.

From February 24 to October 18, fires destroyed rare plants within the park, including Scythian gorse (633 specimens), rough hemlock (402), hairy hemlock (832), Lessing’s hemlock (2384), and Ukrainian hemlock (456).

Russian troops have begun construction of a fortified area along the left bank of the Kherson region. The construction of fortifications will pass through the extremely valuable territories of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, as well as through the national parks “Oleshkivski Piski” and “Nizhnyodniprovskii”.

Irreparable damage will be caused to the European Nature Protection Network, in particular, the objects of the Emerald Network “Kinburn spit”, “Oleshkivsky sands”, “Kakhov reservoir”, “Lower Dnipro”, “Dnipro-Buzky estuary” and Ramsar wetlands have already been affected by Russian aggression the “Dnipro Delta” and “Yahorlytska Zatoka” areas.