Ukraine discovered four torture sites used by Russian troops in Kherson

(photos: Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office)

The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office claimed on Monday to have discovered four “torture sites” used by the Russians while they occupied Khersona city in southern Ukraine that kyiv forces retook on November 11.

“In Kherson, prosecutors continue to determine Russia’s crimes”, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said on Telegram, stating that the officials found “sites of torture” in “four buildings”.

Among those four buildings visited by the researchers, there are “provisional detention centers” from before the war, “where, during the capture of the city, the occupants illegally detained people and brutally tortured them”.

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The rooms used by the Russians in Kherson

Investigators seized “pieces of rubber batons, a wooden bat, a device used by the occupants to electrocute civiliansan incandescent lamp and bullets”, explained the source, ten days after the Ukrainian army retook Kherson.

“The work to establish the places of torture and illegal detention of people continues,” said the prosecutor’s office, who noted that he also wants to “identify all the victims.”

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Ukraine urges civilians to leave areas liberated for the winter

The Ukrainian authorities have started to evacuate civilians from the recently liberated areas of the Kherson region and neighboring Mykolaiv province, fearing that the damage to infrastructure will be too severe for people to bear the coming winterauthorities said Monday.

Residents of the two southern regions, regularly shelled in recent months by Russian forces, have been advised to move to safer areas in the center and west of the country, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.

The government will provide “transportation, accommodation and medical care,” he said.

The evacuations come just over a week after Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson and the surrounding area. The liberation of the area marked an important advance on the battlefield, while the evacuations highlight the difficulties facing the country following heavy Russian shelling of its electrical infrastructure as winter approaches.

Russia has been bombarding Ukraine’s power grid and other infrastructure from the air, causing widespread blackouts and leaving millions of Ukrainians without heat, electricity or water as freezing cold and snow blanket the capital kyiv and other cities.

According to Volodymyr Kudrytsky, director of Ukrenergo, the state operator of the Ukrainian electricity grid, in 15 regions of the country outages of four hours or more were expected. More than 40% of the country’s energy facilities have been damaged by Russian missile attacks in recent weeks.

On Sunday, powerful bombing explosions rocked the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, home to Europe‘s largest nuclear power plant. The IAEA, the world’s nuclear watchdog, called for “urgent measures to help prevent a nuclear accident” at the Russian-occupied facility.

kyiv and Moscow blamed each other for the shelling, which came after weeks of relative calm in the area, which has been the scene of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces since Russia invaded the area on February 24.

The fighting has raised the specter of a nuclear catastrophe since the Russian troops occupied the plant -the largest in Europe- during the first days of the war.

In other fighting, at least four civilians have been killed and eight others wounded in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, the deputy head of the country’s presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said on Monday.

On Sunday night, a Russian missile attack in the northeastern Kharkiv region killed one person and injured two others, according to Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov. The attack hit a residential building in the village of Shevchenkove, Syniehubov said, killing a 38-year-old woman.

One person was injured overnight in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Russian forces shelled the city of Nikopol and its surroundings, Governor Valentyn Reznichenko said.

In the eastern Donetsk region, partly controlled by Moscow, Russian forces shelled 14 towns and villages, the region’s Ukrainian governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.

Heavy fighting broke out in the region near the town of Bakhmut, where a school was damaged by shelling. In Makiivka, which is under Russian control, an oil depot was hit by “an explosive object” and caught fire, local authorities based in Moscow said.

In the neighboring Luhansk region, most of it under Russian control, the Ukrainian army is advancing towards the key cities of Kreminna and Svatove, where the Russians have established a line of defense, according to the Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Haidai.

“There are successes and the Ukrainian army is advancing very slowly, but it will be much more difficult for the Russians to defend themselves after Svatove and Kreminna (are retaken)”, Haidai told Ukrainian television.

(With information from AFP and AP)

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