Half a million people remain under occupation in the Kherson region – Lahuta

ALIONA MAZURENKO  — MONDAY, 20 JUNE 2022, 15:59

Hennadii Lahuta, the head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, said that between 450,000 and 500,000 citizens are still in the occupied territory of the region.

Source: Lahuta’s briefing on 20 June

Quote from Lahuta: "I think that between 450,000 and 500,000 of our citizens are still in the occupied territory of Kherson Oblast."

Details: Lahuta said that about 50% of those who did not want to stay in the occupied area had left the area.

According to him, there are currently two ways to leave the occupied Kherson region: to go to the temporarily occupied Crimea or [to go] through the occupied Melitopol-Vasylivka towards Zaporizhzhia.

Lahuta also said that the Russian invaders were holding more than 600 people captive: activists, members of the anti-terrorist operation, and people who are against the occupation.

They are being detained in different places, including a pre-trial detention centre, a police station, recreation centres and boarding houses.