Kherson region: Russian troops confiscate civilian vehicles, stop humanitarian convoy
Denys Karlovsky – Saturday, 19 March 2022, 17:41
Russian troops have stopped a convoy carrying humanitarian aid for Kherson region residents. They continue to loot villages and confiscate civilian vehicles.
Source: Hennadiy Lahuta, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration; residents of the village of Vysokopillya; Oleksandr Babych, the Mayor of Hola Prystan, cited in Suspilne
According to Lahuta: "Unfortunately, the occupiers did not allow the convoy to reach its destination. Trucks with humanitarian aid were turned around halfway; they drove to the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The convoy carried the most essential items – hygiene products for children and adults, canned food, meat, prepared food, baby food, etc."
Details: According to Lahuta, 14 trucks with food and medicine left the village of Apostolove in the Dnipropetrovsk region for the Kherson region. Among other things, they were carrying insulin, which is desperately needed by patients in the Kherson region.
According to Yuriy Samohvalov, a local activist from the village of Vysokopillya, Russian occupying troops were breaking into villagers’ houses and confiscating their vehicles. Eyewitnesses report numerous cases of looting and harassment.
Samohvalov says that Russian troops stop everyone who leaves their house. Not all homes have electricity as the infrastructure was damaged during fighting.
According to Oleksandr Babyish, the Mayor of Holoprystan, Russian occupying troops broke into the house of Viktor Marunyak, Head of the village of Stara Zburyivka and spent the night there. They held him hostage for 24 hours to ensure their own safety.
Background:
- On 18 March, it became known that occupiers had taken the mayor of Nova Kakhovka, Dmitry Vasiliev, hostage, and were torturing him.
- Russian troops in the occupied territories of the Kherson region are trying to persuade local residents to join the so-called "local police," which will persecute and punish those who resist the occupation.
- On 16 March, occupying soldiers abducted the mayor of Skadovsk in the Kherson region. They were also reported to hold the Head of Chulakivka village hostage.
