When the joy of liberation slowly fades away the disturbing news are coming from the area. As it was in other liberated regions, torture chambers and mass graves have been discovered in #Kherson region. Also other crimes known so far are in this thread 1/ #RussianWarCrimes
Torture rooms were organized in occupied police departments. The writing on the wall: "When you get out of captivity alive. You will not want to come back again. And you will dream of forgetting this painful hell. But no matter how hard you try, you won't succeed...” 2/
Journalists found traces of possible mass burials at the city cemetery in liberated #Kherson.
It is not yet known how many people are buried there, and there is no information about the causes of their death. Some graves with dates of death - late February and early March. 3/
In Snigurivka, #Mykolayiv region, which was recently liberated, the Russian military set up torture centers where they interrogated local residents, says the head of the city military administration, Ivan Kukhta.
«There is a lot of torture, mockery, a lot of people were taken 4/
to #Kherson , to Kakhovka. Now we find tortured people, we understand where there are mass graves»
Comments from local people: “They brutally tortured people. They were electrocuted. They drowned people in water. They cut people. They did things I can't imagine
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how can a person do that. We prayed for Ukraine to return to #Kherson as soon as possible," the man said.
Another resident said that people nearby heard terrible screams coming from the prison.
"They raped girls here. Then they brought men here, beat them and killed them" 6/
The Russian military released more than 400 convicts from a detention center in #Kherson during their escape. In addition, the cases of 59 people who were detained by the Russians during the occupation were found in the jail. It is reported that the occupiers took these people 7/
with them. Probably detained were taken to #Crimea.
Russians destroyed the energy facility that supplied the entire right bank of the #Kherson region and a large part of the Mykolaiv region.The Russians blew up two autotransformers, reported the head of Ukrenergo Kudrytskyi.
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Before fleeing from #Kherson, the occupiers also destroyed all critical infrastructure - communications, water, heating and electricity supplies, leaving hundreds of thousands of people in a humanitarian crisis. 9/9 #RussiaIsATerroristState
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