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 5/
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. 8/
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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The rally celebrating the liberation of #Kherson in #Australia. The woman speaking is from #Bucha, for 7 months she haven’t seen her husband, he is Ukrainian defender who took part in liberation of Kherson. That was also a day of his birthday and the dream he has is 1/2 #Ukraine
to go to #Crimea and show our beautiful Ukrainian Crimea to their kids. 💛💙 The Ukrainian community in Australia. Many thanks to all people standing by our side and supporting Ukraine! Ukrainians.org.au 2/2 #StandWithUkraine
Official comment on the russian #Wagner mercenary by @StratCom_AFU:
The Ukrainian side regularly puts up for exchange prisoners who voluntarily spoke on the air of Ukrainian journalists. The further security of these people is a matter for the #Russia, not #Ukraine. 1/3
Nuzhin recruited Prigozhin, while in captivity he had the task of joining one of the formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, his legend was raw, he did not pass the polygraph and was exposed by the Ukrainian side as a provocateur.
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Nuzhin is not an oppositionist or a fighter for the truth. He is a recidivist and a criminal with a long experience, so you should not believe his words about his desire to fight against the Russian troops.
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For more than half a year of occupation, the Russians have not secured #Mariupol from mines and continue to mine the outskirts. Photo: “People live here with a mine on the roof and no one cares!” 1/5 #RussiaIsATerroristState
People also complain about inhuman conditions in houses that Russia did not renovate before the winter period. Those houses they managed to build are not enough. People live without windows and the +5°C indoors. The elderly people suffer the most. 2/5
Russians destroyed or damaged almost 100% of buildings in the city. The electrical grid Russians maintain can’t supply enough power for people, so the blackouts are common. People live also without water and gas. #RussiaIsATerroristState 3/5
Following my post about Kherson and hryvnia I want to tell some facts about it. 😊 "Hryvnia" was originally a unit of weight of Kyivan Rus’, its origin is attributed to the 8th-9th centuries. With the spread of Arab dirhams on the territory of Rus’, 1/4
a certain number of them began to be equated by weight to the #hryvnia. Gradually, the hryvnia acquired the value of not only a weight, but also a unit of account. Later, silver bars of standard shape and weight became coins. Also a silver coin of that time. 2/4
The hryvnia coin has been known since the middle of the 11th century. The first to appear were Kyiv coin hryvnias — diamond-shaped ingots weighing about 164 g. Novgorod hryvnias appeared almost simultaneously — stick-shaped ingots weighing about 204.7 g. 3/4