National police: bodies of 868 civilians, including children, were found in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions

Employees of the National Police of Ukraine discovered the bodies of 868 civilians, including 24 minors, in populated areas liberated from Russian occupation in the Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.

Oleksiy Sergeev, head of the department of organizational and analytical support and operational response, told about this at the briefing.

He emphasized that the bodies of 14 people were found in these regions only during the past day.

On the territory of the de-occupied regions, the police discovered 34 torture chambers and places of detention of citizens, 24 of them in the Kharkiv region, 3 each in the Kherson and Kyiv regions, 2 in the Sumy region, and 1 each in the Donetsk and Chernihiv regions. Sergeev said that the investigators also documented 27 places of deprivation of liberty, including torture and filtration camps, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and seven – directly in the Russian Federation.

On November 4, around four in the morning, Russian troops shelled Chuguyiv, Kharkiv region.

Updated at 09:41. According to Oleg Synegubov, head of the regional military administration, four hits were recorded.

They all came across the open area.

“Fortunately, there were no casualties,” said Oleg Sinegubov.

During the day, the Russian occupiers ransacked the settlements not only in the Chuguyiv district, but also in the Kupyanskyi and Izyumskyi districts.

In Kupyansk, an annex to a residential building and the roof of the administrative building of a farm were on fire due to shelling.

Occupants hit a private house in the Savynska community of the Izyum district.

In Izyum itself, a 69-year-old man was blown up by a mine the day before. He was hospitalized with moderate injuries.

We will remind that the explosions in Chuguyev were heard a few minutes after the announcement of the air alert at 03:33 on November 4.

People were allowed to leave the shelter at 04.09.

The full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for the 254th day.

During the war, more than 50 cultural monuments and dozens of buildings, which are considered architectural monuments of local importance, were damaged by enemy shelling and rocket attacks in the Kharkiv region. Far from all of them managed to preserve before winter.

The Skovoroda Museum in Bogodukhiv district, the Polovtsian women in Izyum, and many 19th-century buildings in Kharkiv became victims of the war. They will be restored after the war, but until then it may happen that nothing will be saved if the buildings are not closed now against rain, frost and snow.

It’s not easy for public servants

In a month, on December 3, Ukraine will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda. Meanwhile, his museum in Skovorodynivka stands without windows and without a roof. On May 6, the Russians hit the museum with rockets. During the fire, the main building burned completely. Skovoroda’s sculpture survived, it will be conserved and taken to Kyiv.

But the museum building still stands without a roof under the autumn rains. Back in the spring, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko promised that funds for the restoration of the building would be sought at the state level. But before restoring the museum, it needs to be conserved in order to preserve what survived the fire.

“As of today, there is no work yet. Everything in the museum has been cleaned, garbage has been removed, but the design and estimate documentation is only being prepared.

Only after that, we will be able to start emergency work to preserve the monument for the winter period, so that we can work on the restoration of the premises next year. We are public servants, everything is not easy for us, so everything will depend on how quickly the funding will come. This requires from two to three million hryvnias,” said museum director Nataliya Mytsai.

Specialists of the regional Department of Capital Construction came to Skovorodinivka on July 9 to inspect the premises and collect the necessary information in order to prepare documents for the conservation of the building. Summer and autumn have passed — and the documents are still not ready.

Emergency works were also delayed in the library named after Queen Ukraine’s largest book depository after the National Library welcomes winter with broken windows.

“Currently, the windows of the building are broken, two book stores, the main building and the grand piano, on which the Russian composer Serhiy Rachmaninov played, were damaged,” the Ministry of Culture says.

The book depository survived, but if the temperature regime is not maintained in winter, 7 million books in various languages will be at risk of destruction. Only now has the Ministry of Culture decided to look for money for emergency works. You can make a contribution via the link. The amount required for full restoration is 128 million hryvnias. Another well-known monument of cultural heritage, the Polovtsian women on Mount Kremenets in Izyum, managed to be conserved. They were initially planned to be moved to the Historical Museum in Kharkiv, but in the end they were left in place. Of the 9 women, 8 survived, one was so damaged by the explosion that it cannot be restored. Another 7 are partially damaged. 

For the money of the city and foreigners

Windows and doors in some cultural buildings and architectural monuments help close patrons. For example, the Kharkiv-Nuremberg Twinning Society helped repair the roof of the Art Museum. The brothers are raising money for Kharkiv repairs in Germany, holding concerts, exhibitions and other charity events. A partner of the Society, the “Toloka” foundation, buys construction materials with this money.

With these funds, work began on Blagovishchenska Street, 17, where the architectural monument is located. This is a Beckettian building in the Neo-Renaissance style of 1899, it used to be the estate of the merchant Sokolov, now it is a skin and venereological dispensary. The pearl of the interior of the building is the painting by the artist Uvarov “Apotheosis of Apollo”. In March, an enemy projectile hit there, and the roof was completely burned down.

“Currently, the object is open to winds and precipitation, and as a result, the unique author’s decoration of the interiors is gradually being destroyed. The unique painting is currently dismantled and is located in the Art Museum, which provided premises for its storage,” they said. in the “Toloka” fund. Roof repairs began in mid-October.

University of Arts named after Kotlyarevskyi has already mostly prepared for winter — they repaired part of the roof and closed the windows with OSB plates. The same works were carried out in the nearby building of the city council, which is considered a monument of cultural heritage, everything was done at the expense of the city budget, for which the authorities allocated 20 million hryvnias. Conservation work on the regional council building on Svobody Square is still ongoing.

“We are restoring the roof to its original form according to the drawings that existed since the time of construction. 

We are also immediately concreting all those floors that were destroyed by the bomb, everything will also be immediately restored to its original form,” said the chairman of the supervisory board of the “Zhytlobud- 1” Oleksandr Kharchenko.

According to him, emergency works will be completed by the end of this year.

Emergency and restoration work teams of the “Kharkiv Water Supply” Complex of “Kharkivvodokanal” promptly removed nine damages on the sections of water pipes and put ten inspection wells in order the day before. This was reported in the Kharkiv City Council.

“We are restoring the roof to its original form according to the drawings that existed since the time of construction. We are also immediately concreting all those floors that were destroyed by the bomb, everything will also be immediately restored to its original form,” said the chairman of the supervisory board of the “Zhytlobud- 1” Oleksandr Kharchenko.

According to him, emergency works will be completed by the end of this year.

The Kupyan district is under constant shelling by the occupiers, there are dead and wounded.

The Prosecutor’s Office has started pre-trial investigations in criminal proceedings on the facts of violations of the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

This was reported in the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

In the evening of November 1, the occupiers shelled the village of Dvorichna in the Kupyan district. An 82-year-old woman who was in the yard of the house at the time died.

In the evening of the same day, the enemy had previously shelled the village of Petropavlivka with “Grad” anti-aircraft guns. A 25-year-old woman and her two children were injured: a 3-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl.

On November 2, the enemy army continued shelling the village of Dvorichna, village. Podoli and the city of Kupyansk. Residential buildings were damaged.

During the rocket attack by the occupiers on Kupyansk, an enemy rocket hit a private house, an 82-year-old woman died.

A woman’s body was found near Kharkiv in a house destroyed by shelling.

The deceased was 76 years old.

This is reported by the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.

Around 5:00 p.m., one of the private estates in the city of Kupyansk was fired upon. It was destroyed. A 76-year-old woman was buried under the rubble.

The rescuers of the 44th State Fire and Rescue Unit left for emergency rescue operations. Unfortunately, after sorting through the debris, they discovered the body of a woman without signs of life.

As a reminder, one person died and 6 were injured as a result of shelling in the Kharkiv region.