02/04/2022 13:18

Kherson region in the temporary occupation suffers from the hands of russian invaders

Explosions and shelling during the last day.  Most of them are in Beryslav and Kherson districts.  There are damaged and destroyed infrastructure.

The racists did not miss the evacuation column that took women and children out of the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka.

In the region, the occupiers are trying to create so-called occupation civil or civilian administrations.  Yesterday it happened in Kakhovka - armed russian soldiers entered the premises of the Kakhovka City Council and introduced a new “Gauleiter”, a former deputy of the regional council.

Rashists detain, interrogate and try to persuade the heads of local governments throughout the Kherson region to cooperate.

Yesterday the mayor of Tavriya Mykola Rizak was detained.  The occupiers detained him for refusing to distribute humanitarian aid and organizing pro-Ukrainian rallies in the city of Tavriysk.

Two priests were recently summoned for questioning.

Activists, politicians and journalists who have been opposed to russian aggression since the first days of the war have disappeared in the Kherson region.

Any attempts to go to peaceful rallies are severely suppressed by the occupiers - people were thrown light-noise grenades, taken out in an unknown direction.

About 300,000 people remain in the city of Kherson.  Due to the acute shortage of medicines, the city is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.  Humanitarian cargoes are not allowed or looted.

Terror of civilians is a war crime defined by the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these facts of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.