In the Kherson region, the bodies of a couple of farmers who were killed by the Russians in their own cellar were discovered – the prosecutor’s office

The bodies of a couple of farmers who died during the Russian occupation were found in the Kherson region

Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

In the de-occupied village of Arkhangelsk, Kherson region, law enforcement officers discovered the burial place of the bodies of a man and a woman who were local farmers.

This was reported in the Kherson regional prosecutor’s office.

During a cursory examination of the bodies, the investigators found damage to the skulls. Currently, they have been sent for a forensic medical examination.

According to preliminary investigation data, the Russian military killed the couple in their own cellar in August, during the occupation of Arkhangelsk. The armed forces of Ukraine liberated this village in early October.

Investigators have opened criminal proceedings based on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder – Part 2 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code. The circumstances of the crime are currently being established.

After the retreat of Russian troops from the right bank of the Kherson region, law enforcement officers began to discover so-called torture chambers there, in which the occupiers probably held Ukrainians. Radio Svoboda journalists found traces of possible mass burials in Kherson.

As of November 13, the Ukrainian military de-occupied 179 settlements on the right bank of the Dnieper on more than 4,500 square kilometers. After the retreat, the occupiers blew up the bridges across the Dnipro to prevent the Defense Forces from advancing further. Russian troops also left some of their equipment.

A curfew has been introduced in Kherson, which will operate from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. Residents of de-occupied settlements are urged to leave for safer areas due to the high risk of shelling, and people who have already left are urged not to rush back until stabilization measures are completed.

Among the killed animals was a gray hamster, which was listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. Before the invasion, animals of this species were protected and protected. The occupiers tied the rodents to tree branches by their tails and necks. Russian soldiers killed rodents for fun. Among the killed animals is a gray hamster, which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. This was reported by the Ukrainian animal protection organization UAnimals. At one of the abandoned positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Kherson region, they found a place where several rodents were hanged. The occupiers caught them and tied them to tree branches by their tails and necks. The hamsters found were dead.

“Grey hamsters are rodents from the Red Book of Ukraine. Before the war, they were guarded and guarded. This is an abandoned position in the steppe of the Kherson region. What the Russians did with rodents, including the rare gray Red Book hamster, can be seen in the photo,” it says in the message.

The organization urged people to sign a petition calling for Russia to be punished for environmental crimes on the territory of Ukraine.

Ukrainian environmentalist Mykhailo Rusyn said that a gray hamster also came to the position of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian defenders called him combatant.

On November 13, it became known that Russian soldiers stole a raccoon and other animals from the local zoo during their escape from Kherson. Among the stolen animals are a llama, a wolf, a donkey and squirrels, the occupiers took them to Crimea. The Ukrainian side has already offered to exchange stolen animals for captured Russian soldiers.

Earlier, on November 10, it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces had stolen seven icons from the late 18th and early 19th centuries from the church in occupied Energodar. The Russian occupiers allegedly transferred church valuables to the Melitopol State Museum of Local Lore.

The pre-revolutionary works of the Kherson region fell into the hands of the Russian invaders. The stolen books were a valuable source for scientific research devoted to the history of the Kherson province.

During the occupation of Kherson, the Russian military removed rare pre-revolutionary publications from the library named after Oles Honchar. The Kherson City Council reported the loss.

The Kherson library was a repository for one of the largest collections of books published on the territory of the Kherson province in pre-revolutionary times. According to the director of the book depository, Nadia Korotun, the publications served as a source of information for researchers, local historians, students and teachers.

“An information resource for everyone who is interested in the history of the southern part of Ukraine has been destroyed. It hurts us to accept this! We have hope and faith that this collection will return to our native Honcharivka!”, says Nadiya Korotun.

Since their stay in the territory of the Kherson region, the Russian invaders also devastated the museum collections. Thus, according to the Center of National Resistance, the Russians took more than 15,000 exhibits to the territory of the occupied Crimea. In particular, the Kherson Art Museum named after Oleksiy Shovkunenko was robbed.

Among the stolen canvases are icons painted at the turn of the 17th-20th centuries, Ukrainian paintings of the second half of the 19th-early 20th centuries, as well as works by modern domestic artists. In total, it is reported that four trucks with loot arrived in Simferopol from Kherson, Novaya Kakhovka and other settlements in the region.

We will remind that the servicemen of the Russian Federation stole a raccoon and other animals from the Kherson zoo. The movement of the animals became known thanks to a video published on the channel of the owner of the Crimean zoo “Taigan” Oleg Zubkov. He emphasized that representatives of the occupation administration of the Kherson region asked him to remove the animals.

In Nova Kakhovka, the Russians took out the equipment from the Tavria cognac plant. The mayor of the city notes that the invaders could be interested in the automatic bottling lines, as well as the alcohol used to create collectible brandy.