The Russian army destroyed or damaged about 800 objects of culture in Ukraine, the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine reports with reference to Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko.
According to him, the Ukrainian authorities are actively working with UNESCO to strengthen these objects on the eve of winter, in particular, to get generators.
“It is important for us to get through the winter so that the museums are warm and have electricity. And that, as a result, cultural life in the country continued,” Tkachenko added.
UNESCO is creating a base of cultural heritage in Ukraine, destroyed during the full-scale war with Russia. According to Svetlana Duminskaya, a volunteer and head of the Kherson City Council’s cultural department, Russian troops took exhibits from the Kherson Regional Museum named after Alexei Shovkunenko, as well as from the Museum of Local History, during October 31 – November 2.
Residents of Kherson said that they repeatedly saw black bags at the landfill, which were then thrown with garbage or burned.
The residents of Kherson tell about it.
The publication writes that a resident of Kherson, who works as a garbage truck driver, told about the smell of rotten and burnt meat at the landfill.
A roadblock was set up at the entrance to the landfill, and local residents were not allowed to enter the territory.
Also, local residents claim that Kherson residents saw trucks filled with black bags arriving at the landfill, which were then burned. At the same time, there was a sharp smell of burnt hair in the air.
Thousands of people passed through the torture chambers of the occupiers in the Kherson region, the ombudsman said.
Thousands of people, including teenagers, went through the torture chambers set up by the occupiers in the settlements of the Kherson Region that were liberated from Russia. The invaders did not seek to get information from local residents – they were simply beaten.
This was stated by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, on Monday, November 21. According to him, the scale of violations of international humanitarian law by the occupiers of the Kherson region is terrifying.
According to witnesses, people were abducted just on the streets – they put a bag on their heads, took them to an unknown place, severely beat them for several days, applied electric shock – and practically did not ask questions.
“Then they let the person recover a little – and they take him out again, tie him to a chair with plastic ties and start asking questions. But of the type: “We know that you are a spy of the Armed Forces. Do you confirm this? You can, in principle, not confirm, because we already know everything. Your task is to sign that you are a spy,” the ombudsman said.
In one of the torture chambers, the occupiers did not even give people its water, they were forced to collect technical water from a pipe in the cell and transfer it to one. All your poems were filmed by the Russians – surveillance cameras were installed in the cameras.
According to Lubinets, the FSB of the Russian Federation coordinated the torture and executions in all the territories captured by Russia, and units of the Russian Guard operated in Kherson.
Regarding the communication of sexual violence by the invaders in the Kherson region, he said that these facts are recorded.
“This is a very sensitive topic, it is necessary to approach each victim of sexual violence very carefully and professionally,” said the ombudsman, stressing that it is important to preserve the anonymity of the victims.
Ukrainian right-wing activists found new evidence of atrocities committed by the Russian occupiers in the Kherson region. In the torture chambers, the invaders kept people for several weeks, and some even up to three months – they were tied to chairs and beaten with pipes. Moreover, the Russians captured teenagers as well.
The village of Osokorivka in the east of the Kherson region was 80% destroyed during the occupation by Russian soldiers. Local residents, who lived under the oppression of the “Russian peace” for more than half a year, shared with journalists how they managed to survive and survive.
Eyewitnesses of the events during the blockade of the village said that there were mainly Buryats, who forever left a terrible trail of memories.
“We lived peacefully and calmly, we raised children. And then the Russian peace came,” says a young woman with a child in her arms.
And you can immediately understand what she is talking about. The houses and the yard were literally destroyed: the locals live in shelled houses, where instead of glass in the window frames there is a film. “I am a disabled person of the III group, my parents are pensioners and I can barely walk. Who will restore all this for me?” – the man is indignant. One pensioner showed a hole in the wall of her apartment building. She claims that she will winter here: nowhere else. “A shell came here. The whole room was in ruins. These are not people, but creatures,” the woman said bitterly. The network showed a new video of how residents of a recently occupied settlement of the Kherson region met the defenders of Ukraine. People brought our soldiers flowers and bread and salt on an embroidered towel.
A small Ukrainian from the Kherson region conquered the network with his question to the military forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were liberating the settlements of the region from the Russian occupiers. The boy asked if he had already expelled “those goats”. “They want to take revenge on the locals”: the Office of the President of Ukraine commented on the shelling of Kherson by Russia The adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine appealed to the United Nations Organization for Human Rights The Russian occupiers began shelling Kherson from the left bank. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, believes that this is how the Rashists want to take revenge on the locals.
Podolyak said: Russia has started a systematic shelling of Kherson from the left bank. There is no military logic: they just want to take revenge on the locals. This is a huge war crime live
In addition, the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine appealed to the United Nations Organization for Human Rights. He added:
Earlier, the Armed Forces reported that the Russian Federation had once again deployed a Kalibra ship on duty in the Black Sea. As of November 21, six warships of the Russian Federation are on combat duty in the Black Sea.
The Russian occupation forces, which retreated from Kherson to the left bank of the Dnieper, continue to fire on the city’s peaceful residents.
This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyryll Tymoshenko.
The flight to the apartment was recorded in the Dnipro district of the city, there are victims.
Rescuers and emergency services are on the scene.
We will remind, on Monday, the President of France Emmanuel Macron had a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky against the background of information about new shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russian troops began a systematic shelling of Kherson from the left bank in order to take revenge on the locals.
“You try to take a nap, but you hear everything that happens in the neighboring cells. It’s scary to even hear,” says former NATO member Maksym Negrov, who was held captive by the Russians for two months in occupied Kherson.
In the local detention center, the occupiers tortured Kherson residents. Screams came from the building at night. The shop assistants near the torture chamber saw hearses arriving there, and a strong stench wafted through the city.
During these months in captivity, Maxim lost 15 kilograms and “celebrated” his birthday.
“They entered the city with inspiration, they thought that Kherson had submitted to them”.
Journalists are crowding near the detention center building, law enforcement officers are in front of them. Sappers have been checking the isolator for several hours. In about an hour, it will be opened for the media for the first time.
Together with Maxim, we approach the building. He examines her and remembers from which side he was brought into the room – the man was brought to the isolation cell wearing a cap wrapped on top with tape.
Maxim was detained on March 15. The man spent half a day at work, and then went to his mother. There, the neighbors reported that they were looking for him. Maxim went to another house, but the Russians were waiting for him there too.
“I went back to work and they caught me there. They were looking for me at all addresses. They broke down the gates and doors of my mother’s house, turned everything upside down with a hammer,” says Maksym.
“They entered the city with such inspiration: they thought that Kherson had completely surrendered to them. But with the beginning of active resistance, the Russians became more and more evil and grabbed people. It was round-the-clock torture, everything was just beginning with us,” the man recalls.
“I drew on the wall with a pencil how many days I’ve been here”.
Everyone is sent to the isolation ward one by one. We walk down the corridor. They are not allowed to enter the cameras – they have not yet been checked by sappers.
All around is a mess left by the Russians: a broken phone, overturned tables and cabinets, and a broken photo frame with a portrait of Putin in the corner.
Maksym stops by one of the cells – he immediately recognizes the place where he spent two months.
“There, in the corner of the room, I drew with a pencil on the wall how many days I was staying here. Somehow they didn’t find that pencil in my jacket. And that window, – Maksym points to it with his hand, – opened automatically, and one day I heard someone on the street turn on the Ukrainian radio.”
Most of the time Maksym was in the cell alone, but then a young guy was placed with him for a few days. The man thought that it was done on purpose to talk him out: “And he, this guy, thought the opposite – that I should talk him out. There was mistrust, we were set against each other.”
The occupiers did not allow the prisoners to be given any gear, food, water, or cigarettes. One of the means of putting pressure on people, says Maksym, was the lack of proper nutrition: for two days, a person was given a 300-gram bag of food.
“I lost so much weight that I had to hold my pants with my hand”.
At the end of April, the Russians took Maksym out of the cell, put the cap over his eyes again and wrapped it with tape. They took him outside and put him in a car. They said they were letting go.
“They dropped me off the car, told me to count to 30 and only then take off my hat. I did so. But I lost so much weight that I had to hold my pants with one hand so they wouldn’t fall down, and take off my hat with the other. Yes, I walked to work with my pants on. The guys, who saw me for the first time during this time, immediately asked: “Do you want to eat?”, – the man recalls.
“Then I called my 15-year-old daughter, and the first thing she said to me was: ‘Dad, I won’t walk for so long anymore,'” says Maksym, smiling. – They were waiting for me, there were tears, they were happy afterwards. Everyone saw how they took me away, what the searches were, of course, they thought whether I would return or not.”
We are going with Maksym Kherson to the sixth day of the liberation of the city. Crowds of people with Ukrainian flags are everywhere: “Look at how many flags the people of Kherson hid under the occupation. And the Russians wanted these people to vote in some kind of referendum? Stupid This city cannot be conquered.”
It was thoughts about Ukraine and future grandchildren, Maksym says, that helped him stay in captivity: “I had no doubts that Ukraine would win and we would be free.”
A resident of Kherson, who was freed from the Russian occupiers, spoke about the torture that the invaders inflicted on Ukrainians. They were distinguished by excessive cruelty.
The resident of Kherson decided not to tell everything he experienced, but he mentioned several tortures.
“Wires on the genital organ – and start to shock”: a resident of Kherson told about the torture that the occupiers arranged.
“Then they take you to the river and offer you to cut off what sexual organ? On the river, because it was probably easier to dump the body there,” he added. Earlier, ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets showed a place in Kherson where the Russian occupiers kept and tortured Ukrainians. People were not even allowed to go to the toilet, they were given electric shocks. Photos from other torture centers in Kherson also appeared. In total, at least 4 such premises were found. Another 12 cells were called “deprivation of liberty” places.
The Russian invaders, managing in Kherson, which was under occupation for more than 8 months, engaged in looting. Putin’s military looted both local residents and civil infrastructure, but they left the premises of some enterprises “for dessert”.
Fleeing the city from the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the invaders robbed a branch of PrivatBank. It is known that the “second army of the world” opened all the cells where valuable things of local residents were stored and stole them.
“Before retreating from Kherson, the Russians robbed the main branch of PrivatBank in the city, opened all the cells and stole valuable belongings of Ukrainians,” the report says. Under the guise of “evacuation”, the occupiers robbed the Kherson Art Museum. The stolen paintings have already “lit up” in the occupied Crimea – the invaders transported them to the Simferopol Museum.