Occupants abducted 600 people in the Kherson region

 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, human rights activists have recorded at least 600 cases of enforced disappearances in the Kherson region. The occupiers mostly abducted civilians.

This is stated in the report of the human rights organization Crimea SOS.

“Russia treats people – civilian hostages, political prisoners – as subjects of negotiation. This can be seen in the example of how hostages are taken en masse in the occupied territories,” said Yevhen Yaroshenko, an analyst at Crimea SOS.

According to the organization, the vast majority of the missing are civilians.

It was also established that at least 60 citizens of Ukraine were forcibly taken to the territory of the occupied Crimea from the south of Ukraine. According to the Russian invaders, people allegedly evacuated.

It is noted that among the kidnapped Spanish volunteer Mariano Garcia Calatayud. He disappeared in Kherson at the beginning of a full-scale invasion. As it became known to Crimea SOS, he was transferred to the Simferopol pre-trial detention center.

It also turned out that the kidnapped activist Irina Gorobtsova is also in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center. The invaders illegally accused her of allegedly “correcting fire on the airfield in Chernobaevka.”

Earlier, human rights activists found out the whereabouts of Dmitry Zakharov, who was kidnapped by Russian invaders in Genichesk in June 2022. A man is illegally held by the invaders in remand detention center No. 2 in the city of Simferopol.

It was also reported that human rights activists, following the results of 2022, identified the main trends in human rights violations by Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied Crimea, in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

In the occupied Crimea, in Evpatoria, 128 children from Kherson are illegally detained. Underage Ukrainians were illegally taken away by Russian invaders in October 2022 without their parents.

“The Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of the “Republic” of Crimea and the “representation of the Kherson region in the “Republic” of Crimea” are resolving the issue so that children remain in health camps without interrupting their studies,” the press service of the so-called occupational “administration” said. Kherson region.

Earlier, the former representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, Boris Babin, noted that since the fall of 2022, almost two thousand children were taken by the invaders by force or deceit from the Kherson region. The children were placed in five “camps” in the occupied Evpatoria, on the basis of the Ukrainian departmental children’s camps seized in 2014. sanatoriums: “Druzhba”, “Health resort”, “Radiant”, “Mriya” and “Seagull”.

According to the information of the occupying “authorities”, about 18 students of two educational institutions of Kherson returned from the Crimea to the Kherson region. They allegedly will continue their studies on the left bank, that is, in the occupied part of the region.

125 children have already been returned to Ukraine, who were illegally taken to Russia from the temporarily occupied territories. In total, the aggressor country abducted almost 14,000 Ukrainian children.

Russian invaders have illegally taken at least 6,000 children from the temporarily occupied territories of mainland Ukraine to the occupied Crimea since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

According to operational data, 153 thousand 330 people currently live on the right bank of the Kherson region.

This was reported by the director of the social development department of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Inna Ivanova.

“For comparison, at the beginning of 2022, 481,327 people lived in 228 settlements of the right bank of the region. That is, we see that the percentage of the population has decreased by 33%”, Inna Ivanova noted.

She notes that the process of migration continues even now – people are forced to leave due to constant shelling by the Russian troops.

According to the latest data from the Kherson Regional Military Administration, there are about 60,000 people left in Kherson.

According to the Kherson Regional Military Administration, the Russian military shelled the territory of the Kherson region 36 times. Peaceful towns and villages were hit with artillery, rocket launchers and mortars.

Yaroslav Yanushevich, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, reports on this.

As he notes, the city itself was shelled 11 times by the Russian army – they fired at the residential quarters of the city. The houses of the townspeople were damaged.

Last day, 4 residents of the Kherson region received injuries of varying degrees of severity. Two people were blown up by a Russian mine, among them a 16-year-old boy. Two were injured due to strikes by the Russian army, including a 15-year-old boy, Yanushevich adds.

Last day, the Russian military shelled the Kherson region 90 times. The city itself was shelled 19 times by the Russian army – they ransacked the residential quarters of the city. Enemy shells hit residential buildings. It should be noted that 1 person died and 3 residents of the Kherson region were injured in varying degrees of severity due to Russian aggression.

On January 19, Russian artillery shelled the residential quarters of Kherson. Enemy fire caused the fire, and the windows in the houses were broken. Power lines and gas pipelines were also damaged as a result of shelling.

Prosecutors, investigators and experts examined the places of events and documented the next crimes of the Russian Federation. Under the procedural leadership of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office, pre-trial investigations into violations of the laws and customs of war (Part 1, Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) have been initiated.

The shelling of the Russians not only leads to human casualties and the destruction of civil infrastructure objects, but also to damage to the environment. Thus, Russian artillery hits on the Kakhovskaya HPP caused damage, which caused the water level in the Kakhovskaya Reservoir to drop.

These negative factors have already led to the death of a significant number of aquatic biological resources and may disrupt spawning in the spring of 2023, and in the future may lead to an ecological disaster.

On January 18, three mobile concrete shelters were brought to Kherson. One of them was installed near the railway station, and two – in the Dnipro district in places of mass gathering of people.

Explosions rang out in Kherson on the morning of Saturday, January 21. No air alert has been declared in the city.

According to residents of the city, powerful explosions were heard in various districts of Kherson.

It is worth noting that the military administration has not yet confirmed today’s shelling. However, they reported that the Russians shelled the Kherson region 36 times in the past day, using artillery, MLRS and mortars.

The occupiers hit Kherson alone 11 times. Residential blocks were hit.

Last day, four civilians were injured in the Kherson region. Two of them blew up on an enemy mine.

Yesterday, the Russians shelled Kherson again. Shells hit a residential building, causing a fire.