The Russians destroyed 98% of the village on the border of Mykolaiv and Kherson regions

The front line passed through the village of Posad-Pokrovske, located 35 kilometers from Kherson, on the border with Mykolaiv Oblast, for about 9 months – today the successful and beautiful village has been turned into a ruin by the Russians. There is not a single surviving house in the village – almost 98% of the settlement was destroyed. The Rashists also destroyed a school, a kindergarten, a cultural center, shops, and pharmacies.

This was reported by the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevich.

Today, about 200 local residents remain in the village. This is less than a tenth of the people who lived here before the full-scale Russian invasion.

“Even with everything they’ve been through, people are starting to return to normal life.

During the meeting, local residents asked to install a “Point of Invincibility” for heating in their village. Recently, specialists of the Kherson regional communal emergency and rescue service and the State Emergency Service arranged it. Now people can come to the tent to warm up, charge their gadgets and use the Internet,” Yanushevich wrote.

During the day, 49 civilian objects were damaged by Russian shelling in the Mykolayiv region

As of January 13, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 15,292 civilian objects have been partially or completely damaged in Mykolaiv Oblast.

This was reported in the press service of the Mykolaiv regional military administration. Of them:

– housing stock objects – 10,036;

– medical institutions – 96;

– educational institutions – 409;

– cultural institutions – 189;

– facilities of industrial enterprises – 190;

– life support facilities: gas – 1112, electricity – 920, water – 32, heat supply – 96;

– other non-military objects – 2212.

At present, works are ongoing in the region to restore gas and electricity supply in the settlements affected by the war.

Currently, only 5,508 consumers are without gas supply.

At this time, electricity supply, water supply, and drainage have been stopped in 57 settlements (partially in eight of them) of Bashtan and Mykolaiv districts.

During the next day, in order to eliminate the consequences of Russian-fascist aggression, units of the main administration of the State Emergency Service were involved 12 times to identify explosive objects, 41 explosive objects were seized.

Voluntary evacuation is underway. As of January 13, there are 484 internally displaced persons in temporary accommodation facilities in Mykolaiv.

In total, 27,767 people were evacuated from the Mykolaiv region. By directions: Mykolaiv-Palanka – 8153 people, Mykolaiv-Odesa – 9625 people, Mykolaiv-other settlements – 3574 people.

1,240 people were evacuated from Voznesenskyi district, 4,053 people from Bashtanskyi, and 1,122 people from Mykolaivskyi district.

On January 12, at 10:14 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., the enemy attacked the Ochakivska community – as a result of the shelling, a residential building was damaged, and one person was slightly injured.

The Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration reports this.

Also, yesterday, January 12, at 10:45 p.m., enemy shelling of the open territories of the Kutsurub community was recorded. There were no damages or injuries.

In Mykolaiv, Pervomaisky, Voznesensky and Bashtansky districts, the day and night passed relatively calmly.

It will be recalled that earlier the head of the regional military administration Vitaly Kim explained why the occupiers regularly fire at Ochakiv.

The Russian invaders attacked the Kherson region with artillery, anti-aircraft guns, mortars, tanks, and a rocket attack was also recorded.

This was announced by the head of the regional military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevich.

“The Russian occupiers shelled the territory of the Kherson region 49 times. … Kherson was shelled by the Russians 7 times. Enemy shells hit private and apartment buildings,” the report says.

Yesterday, 1 person was killed by Russian shelling, 2 residents of the Kherson Region were wounded of varying degrees of severity.

The invaders are intensifying the terror of the local population in the occupied territory of the region

This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Russian occupiers continue to put pressure on the local population of the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, who refuse to cooperate with the occupation authorities, and carry out door-to-door rounds.

“The invaders are worried about the pro-Ukrainian attitude of the citizens of the region, which poses a threat to them,” the General Staff said.

Details of Russian torture in Kherson became known. Witnesses and victims share their stories.

Oksana Minenko, a 44-year-old accountant from Kherson, said that she was repeatedly detained and tortured by the Russian occupation forces.

The woman’s husband, a Ukrainian soldier, died during the defense of the Antoniv bridge in Kherson on the first day of the full-scale war. According to Minenko, during several interrogations in the spring, Russian security forces dipped her hands in boiling water, pulled out her nails, and beat her in the face with butts so hard that she needed plastic surgery.

The methods of alleged physical torture used by the occupying Russian forces included electrocution of the genitals and other parts of the body, beatings, and various forms of strangulation.

Prisoners were also held in overcrowded cells without sanitary conditions, adequate food or water for two months.

This was done systematically, exhaustingly, in order to obtain information about the Ukrainian military and suspected collaborators or to punish those who criticize the Russian occupation, according to Andriy Kovalenko, the chief prosecutor of the Kherson region in cases of war crimes.

Ukraine’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Yurii Belousov said that the authorities had discovered ten places in the Kherson region that Russian troops used for illegal detentions. About 200 people were believed to have been tortured or physically assaulted while being held in those places, and about 400 more were being held there illegally, he said.

A 35-year-old man from Kherson said that during a five-day detention in August, Russian security forces beat him, forced him to undress and applied electric current to his genitals and ears. When the current strikes, “it’s like a ball hits your head and you lose consciousness,” said the man, who wished to be identified only as Andriy for fear of revenge.

According to him, the kidnappers interrogated him about the military actions of Ukraine, including the storage of weapons and explosives, because they suspected him of connections with the resistance movement.

47-year-old Lyudmila Shumkova said that she and her 53-year-old sister were held captive on Energetikiv Street No. 3 for most of more than fifty days. According to her, the Russians asked them about her sister’s son because they believed he was involved in the resistance movement.

Shumkova, says that about half a dozen people gathered in a cell with a small window for light and a small amount of food once a day. The woman said that the occupiers did not physically torture her, unlike her cellmates. But men were subjected to particularly cruel torture.

“They shouted, it was constant, every day. It could last 2-3 hours.”

Investigators continue to try to identify those responsible for the alleged war crimes, including the possible role of senior military leadership.

Belousov, who did not name the individuals, said most of the suspects were lower-ranking military officials, but some were “senior officers, including colonels and lieutenant colonels,” as well as high-ranking pro-Russian military-civilian officials in Luhansk and Donetsk.

In the Kherson region, the enemy does not stop terrorizing residents of settlements along the right bank of the Dnipro River.

It is still very dangerous here, because there is a lot of unexploded ammunition that was simply scattered by explosions.

The already legendary village of Chornobayivka, which is located next to the airfield, suffered the maximum number of landings by the Russian invaders, and it was there that Ukraine struck hard to knock out the enemy.

Every shelling of the occupied airfield was carefully calculated by the Ukrainians throughout the country. It was here that memes were born with a reminder – wherever uninvited guests visit, you will find Chornobayivka everywhere.

In the “new” terminal – twisted iron and glass, it is a wasteland. Before the war, international flights took off from here. After reconstruction and resolution of all property disputes, passengers could reach Turkey, Poland, and Egypt from here. The latest news on the official website in the fall of 2021 about the continuation of the repair of the airstrip, which was then used by the Russian invaders. Now the small old An-2 planes are like an aviation museum and a war museum at the same time.

There are dugouts left here that were not destroyed by shelling, icons and remnants of propaganda are scattered in them. “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, issue for June 2022, a special issue for the army. “Who will save the world today? Our army and navy. The armed forces of Russia are awaiting a global reboot, re-equipment with the latest weapons and the introduction of ultra-modern technologies are ahead,” the propagandists’ article says. This is the kind of propaganda that was to be spread for the Ukrainian military, even special shells were left, they have a special “agitation” mark on them.

In total, Chornobayivka was hit 28 times. It is still very dangerous here, because there are many unexploded ammunition scattered by explosions, but the locals go here to collect firewood and do not stop even when they find ammunition on their own.

More than 11,000 residents lived in the village, which is only 10 kilometers from Kherson, now there are three times less. Among them, Oleksandr and his “friend” – a boar named Kaban. They survived the occupation together and the animal is still afraid of shelling. The man says he heard legends about his native village that there is a sausage named after Chornobayivka. He does not know that in fact they renamed the type of Moskovskaya sausage, which was stopped buying after the invasion of Russia. Sausage named after him has not yet been brought to the village, and humanitarian workers from different parts of Ukraine are constantly delivering it.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Chornobayivka, 39 locals have died, and more than four dozen have been wounded. But the village is still being shelled with incendiary ammunition.

During the occupation, the Russians constantly checked their phones, so the Chernobayans had almost no videos and photos left from that most difficult period. 300 children survived the occupation together with adults, they know well where the enemy is and where they are. Therefore, when they start playing war, no one wants to be the enemy, everyone stands up for Ukraine and fights for the Ukrainian flag. In their war, everyone will remain alive and it is already known who will win. “We are immortal. Yes, we are Ukraine,” the children exclaim.

Prices for products in the temporarily occupied Kherson Region have increased by almost 80%. In particular, a loaf of bread costs more than 30 hryvnias per loaf, the cheapest sausage is almost 500 hryvnias, and butter is approximately 700 hryvnias per kilogram.

It is possible to buy food only for Russian rubles. The occupiers set the rate at 1 to 1.25.

In some communities of the temporarily occupied Kherson region, it is impossible to buy products even at such high prices, because there are almost no shops. In addition, residents of these communities do not have access to medicines and medical care.

According to Oleksandr Moshnyagul, director of the Black Sea Center for Political and Social Research, the humanitarian situation in the southern communities of the Kherson region is a little easier than in the communities along the Dnieper. Due to the fact that the Russians and their supporters have settled there, at least some shops are open.

The same people who did not take advantage of the evacuation from the Russians and stayed to live near the Dnipro are close to a humanitarian crisis.

“There are few shops left in Goliya Prystan and Oleshki. Pharmacies practically do not work. There is no emergency medical care in the villages and the financial situation is extremely difficult. It is almost impossible to find a job. The vast majority are forced to seek social assistance from the occupiers, because they can simply die of hunger,” said Oleksandr Moshniagul.

Russian troops shelled Kherson again on the night of January 13. Enemy shells hit the base where utility buses were parked.

This was announced by the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevich.

“Due to shelling, 16 buses were damaged, cars, warehouses and a guard building were also damaged – according to preliminary information, one of the guards was injured. Shell fragments also damaged the power grid,” he said.

Medics, police and rescue workers are currently working at the site of the shelling. Power engineering teams are restoring power.

Yesterday, the Russian occupiers attacked the village of Burshtinove near Kherson. One person died as a result of the attack.

In Kherson, an employee of the perinatal center was injured as a result of Russian shelling. The woman received minor injuries.