In the occupied Kherson region, a woman was publicly hanged after saying “Skadovsk is Ukraine”

In the temporarily occupied Skadovsk, Kherson region, the occupiers publicly hanged 56-year-old former nurse Tetyana Mudrenko for her Ukrainian position.

Natalya Chorna, the twin sister of the deceased, who left Skadovska in April, told about this.

Tatiana worked as a nurse and helped children with disabilities. Both sisters went to rallies against the Russian occupation and spread information about the protests on social networks.

According to Natalie, her sister had a few clashes with the occupiers while Skadovsk was occupied.

So, in the spring, during a walk, both sisters came across Russian soldiers in balaclavas. “She looked at the orc, straight into his eyes, and asked, “Why are you here? Are you going to shoot me?'” Chorna recalled.

The last incident before Tatyana’s death happened in October. According to her sister, Mudrenko quarreled with the Ukrainian policemen, who sided with the Russians. She shouted to them “Skadovsk is Ukraine!”

Natalya called her sister on October 7 to find out how she was after the last incident. But the connection was bad and the call dropped.

After some time, according to Chornaya and local eyewitnesses, Tetiana and her husband Anatoly Orekhov were kidnapped from the house by police collaborators. Neighbors said that the couple’s apartment was robbed. The occupiers also took away a car and bicycles.

For several days no one knew where Tatyana was. On October 15, a woman called Natalya Chornia and said that Tatiana had been publicly executed.

“She told me that Tanya was hanged. They poured something into her mouth, and then hung her in front of the courthouse,” Chorna said.

The same woman said that Tatyana’s husband was released from captivity with a broken arm and traces of beatings. He was allowed to bury his wife’s body. After that, he disappeared and was never seen again.

At first, the local morgue refused to talk to Natalya. But later she was sent a death certificate, which states that the cause of Tetyana Mudrenko’s death was “mechanical asphyxiation.”

Due to the occupation, some details of Tatiana’s abduction and death could not be independently verified. But the media reviewed the Ukrainian woman’s death certificate, as well as reports and discussions between local residents and eyewitnesses that confirm Chornaya’s story.

The head of the military administration of Kherson, Galina Lugova, believes that during the “evacuation” 4-5 thousand people were deported from the city. According to Lugova, up to 100,000 people will not return to Kherson Oblast after the war. “Many settled abroad, some found themselves in other Ukrainian cities… Perhaps Kherson Oblast will not wait for about a hundred thousand residents who have experienced the taste of a different life. You must understand that many territorial communities are simply razed to the ground, there is nothing left of the houses there. “This house will not be built tomorrow, so where will people go?” said Halyna Lugova.

In the Kherson Region, the bodies of the spouses who were killed by the Russian invaders were exhumed.
According to the investigation, on June 1, 2022, during the occupation of the village of Visokopill in the Kherson region, a soldier of the Russian army shot an unarmed local couple in their own yard. They died on the spot from gunshot wounds. Later, the man and woman were buried by fellow villagers.
During the procedural actions, the law enforcement officers established the place of burial of the deceased at the local cemetery and carried out their exhumation. The bodies are referred for appropriate research.
People disappear in the captured territories. The General Staff reported how the occupiers carry out infiltration against the population

In the temporarily captured territories, the occupiers continue to carry out infiltration against the local population.
This is stated in the morning summary of the General Staff as of Friday, November 4.
Representatives of the so-called “military commandant’s office” carried out filtering measures against the local population in the village of Pisky in the Starobil district of the Luhansk region.
About 30 citizens were kidnapped and taken to an unknown destination.
Similar measures are held in settlements along the Oleshki – Nova Kakhovka highway of the Kherson region.
The day before, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, reported that a sudden strengthening of the repressive regime was recorded in the city. The phones of local residents are carefully checked for the presence of compromising photos, messages on social networks and private correspondence. Houses are being searched for Ukrainian symbols and literature. During the raids, the personal data of all residents are copied.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns the Russian Federation for the deportation of Ukrainian citizens living in the temporarily occupied territories in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.

This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

In particular, the Russian occupation administration began mass forced relocation of residents of the left-bank Kherson region, primarily Skadovsky and Kakhovsky districts, to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea or the Russian Federation. Similar deportations are also carried out by Russia in the Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions, as well as in the Crimea. The deportation of the residents of the temporarily occupied south is accompanied by the looting by the Russian occupiers of industrial, infrastructural, cultural, educational and medical institutions, as well as private houses and apartments.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that such actions of Russia grossly violate international law.

According to Article 49 of the 1949 Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Population in Time of War, an occupying power is prohibited from carrying out forced individual or mass resettlement or deportation of protected persons. Russia’s infliction of large-scale humanitarian suffering on innocent children, women and the elderly is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, as well as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine emphasizes that war crimes and crimes against humanity do not have a statute of limitation. 

All persons in the Russian Federation who are currently committing crimes against the Ukrainian people will certainly be punished.

“We call on the international community to condemn the Russian Federation for the forced relocation of residents of southern Ukraine, to introduce new sanctions against Russia, as well as to increase military aid to Ukraine for the liberation of its temporarily occupied territories,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said in a statement. 

The war found Anna and her family in Kherson, where she lived in a private house. Until the so-called “referendum” she did not want to leave her home, so she spent a lot of time with her family in the basement.

In the same basement, where it was terribly cold since the beginning of the occupation, neighbors came with their children, because they did not have their own. A woman told about it. We changed the name of the forcibly resettled woman for security reasons – she has relatives left in occupied Kherson. The first days of the occupation The Russians occupied Kherson as early as March 1. From then until the end of September, the woman remained in her hometown. However, she notes that she never communicated with the Russians during all these months.

According to her, in the first days of the occupation, all the residents sat with the windows closed and the lights off for safety: they only looked out from under the blinds and looked at the little green men. Anna also saw enemy armored personnel carriers on her street.

Since no one knew what to expect from the Russian soldiers, people were afraid to even go outside.

You don’t know what might happen in the next minute – whether they will come to your house, what they will do. We as a whole family gathered in one house. My little daughter and I and other women with children spent a lot of time in the basement, – said the woman.

Periodically, they had to spend the night in it, and sometimes they spent whole days in the cold and damp room. They were glad that they did not turn off the lights, because they were able to install heaters. “I didn’t drink tea to keep warm, so I wouldn’t have to run to the toilet. For that, I had to leave the basement,” she recalled.

Evacuation from the city

As Anna noted, at first she did not want to evacuate also because there were huge queues on the roads, and the road from Kherson to Mykolaiv did not last 30 minutes, as usual, but a whole day. However, then the road to Mykolaiv was blocked.

However, when the Russians announced a “referendum”, she and her family realized that they could no longer stay in Kherson. In particular, because her husband is of military age. However, now the road took much longer – it took 3 weeks to leave. In particular, because they were caught in line for the crossing by the results of the so-called “referendum”, according to which Kherson supposedly became part of Russia.

And with all this, it was impossible to spend the night in a car.

Tanks drove by and could crush the car. They didn’t care. People were looking for overnight accommodation in neighboring villages, – said the woman.

And only on October 18, the woman and her family managed to get to the territories controlled by Ukraine, to Odesa, which has always been Anna’s “second home”. However, she is looking forward to the day when Kherson will again be under the control of Ukraine, and she will be able to return home.

What is happening in Kherson now: the latest news

• The occupiers are stealing the property of city residents and communal property. At the same time, they steal everything: from cars to solar power plants.
• Also, the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense informs that people are being forcibly removed from the city under the pretext of “evacuation”. Those who hesitate are offered so-called “housing certificates” for the purchase of housing in Russia, those who do not want to go are forcibly evicted from apartments and houses.
• According to Natalia Gumenyuk, such an “evacuation” and roadblocks left by the Russians may indicate that the occupied territory has been “liberated” from local residents and is being prepared for active hostilities.
• The Russians also began blowing up mobile towers. OС “South” claims that in this way they want to create an information blockade in the region and fill the consciousness of the locals with their narratives.

According to the media in the occupied Nova Kakhovka, Ekaterina Gribovskaya, declared by the Russian occupiers in the criminal role of the “director of the central city hospital”, actually destroyed the medical facility.

This collaborator “sold” valuable medical equipment – the only magnetic resonance therapy, computed tomography and ultrasound machines in the city – to the occupiers in the Crimea, and she herself fled, and not to the occupied peninsula, but “far-sightedly” – immediately to the territory of Russia.

It is reported that the equipment criminally taken out of Nova Kakhovka has now “surfaced” in the “Simferopol Central Regional Clinical Hospital” controlled by the invaders. According to the Center for Journalistic Investigations, before her criminal “Kakhovsky tour”, Gribovskaya worked as the head of the children’s department in the Odessa Regional Psychiatric Hospital No. 2 and “checked in” in the occupied territories in June 2022.

It is noteworthy that the “hereditary physician” Gribovskaya, whose father once headed the Odessa psychiatric dispensary, before starting cooperation with the occupiers, constantly complained to her circle of acquaintances that her managerial talents were allegedly “underestimated”. Now the residents of the occupied Novaya Kakhovka, left without basic medical care, will be able to fully “appreciate” the criminal “enterprise” of Gribovskaya.

Trucks and cars with looted property are actively moving on the roads of the Kherson region.

On November 4, the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on increased traffic on the highways of the temporarily occupied region.

According to the Ukrainian side, the most robberies were recorded in Beryslav and nearby settlements.

The Russian aggressors are taking property and repair facilities from local power grid maintenance companies. In addition, in settlements along the Oleshka – Nova Kakhovka highway of the Kherson region, the occupiers are abducting local residents and taking them away in an unknown direction. By the way, the same thing is happening in Pisky, Luhansk region. Almost 30 people disappeared there after the filtering measures arranged by the representatives of the so-called military commandant’s office.

In Topolivka, Kherson region, the Russians use the local school and kindergarten as a human shield. About three hundred soldiers and equipment were housed in educational institutions. Meanwhile, the Russian Federation is introducing additional security measures and strengthening the police regime. According to the Ukrainian side, such facts were recorded, in particular, in the Primorsky Krai. Thus, in Vladivostok, the authorities are preparing for possible protests, because the local population is outraged by mobilization measures and significant losses among the residents of the region during the war in Ukraine.