Russian "Senator" Kastyukevich convicted of torturing a resident of the Kherson region
On June 2, 2026, the Novovorontsovsky District Court of the Kherson Region found the former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and currently a "senator" from the occupied part of the Kherson Region, guilty of committing war crimes - violating the laws and customs of war.
Prosecutor's Office identifies 10 Russian military personnel who attacked Kherson residents with drones
Prosecutors of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, together with law enforcement agencies of the region, identified 10 servicemen of the 404th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Territorial Troops of the Dnieper Group of Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, involved in systematic drone attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Right-Bank Kherson region.
Russians called her an activist: an occupation policewoman died in Holaya Prystan
In the occupied Hola Prystan, in the Skadovsk district of the Kherson region, several occupation police officers were killed on February 28, 2026. Among them was Veronika Velmamedova, whom the Russians presented as an activist and teacher. However, Ukrainian military officer, Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and blogger Anatoliy "Stirlitz" Stefan found a photo of Velmamedova, which indicates that she was one of the occupation police officers.
Torture site in the center of Kherson: SBU identifies collaborators who tortured civilians
The Russian occupation of Kherson left behind more than just a destroyed infrastructure and a looted city.
It left behind places where people were systematically broken. One of these was a torture chamber in the city center.
The Security Service of Ukraine has identified two Ukrainian citizens who, together with Russian military personnel, participated in the torture of civilians in the basement of a captured building in Kherson.
Russian military deliberately attacks civilians in Kherson region, says UN report
The independent international commission of inquiry into violations in Ukraine under the UN Human Rights Council has published a report. It documents systematic attacks by Russian drones on civilians in the Kherson region. It also records strikes on ambulances and critical infrastructure. The Russian military is publicly distributing videos of such attacks and messages with explicit threats to civilians for moving in areas called «red zones».
Dmytro Tryhub, the detained deputy Gauleiter of Kherson, turned out to be a pensioner of the SBU
The former deputy head of the Kherson occupation administration, detained by Ukrainian law enforcement officers, turned out to be a pensioner of the Security Service of Ukraine. He sued and continues to sue the Pension Fund of Ukraine regarding the recalculation and payment of pensions. By a decision of the Central District Court of Mykolaiv, he was sent to prison until December 19, 2024. Earlier, the Central Journalist Center wrote that 63-year-old Serhiy Rybachok, former deputy head of the Kherson occupation administration, and a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine, was detained, but this information turned out to be erroneous.
The Center for Investigative Journalism found out that this is 60-year-old Dmytro Tryhub, who turned out to be a friend and business partner of collaborator Serhiy Rybachok.
Crimean resident who fought on the side of Russia against Ukraine is sentenced to 12 years in prison
The report also states that prosecutors proved that in 2021 the man signed a contract to serve in the Russian armed forces. After the full-scale invasion of Russia, he entered the mainland territory of Ukraine as part of the army of the occupying power.
Repairing roads for the occupiers: businessman from Melitopol was served a notice of suspicion of aiding the aggressor
It is noted that since the beginning of the armed aggression, the entrepreneur, having pro-Russian views, voluntarily agreed to assist the occupation administration in implementing criminal decisions. After the seizure of the Melitopol Asphalt Concrete Plant, he became its head at the suggestion of the enemy and began to actively encourage the company's employees to support the occupiers and cooperate with them.
An employee of the Zaporizhzhia OV filmed the movement of armed forces equipment with his phone - he was suspected
It is known that in September 2013, a former employee of a local enterprise that provides maintenance of military equipment of the Defence Forces, and now an employee of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, secretly filmed the movement of military equipment of the Armed Forces on his phone.
Juvenile prosecutors: 505 children died in Ukraine as a result of Russian armed aggression
More than 1,634 children have been affected in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of 6 October 2023, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 505 children were killed and more than 1129 were injured of varying severity, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports.
