Oleg Baturin

After appointment of Vitalii Gura as the new «head» of Russian occupation administration of Nova Kakhovka, Marjan Zholubak and Maksym Novak were appointed as his deputies. Violetta Shlyazhko was selected as an advisor of new «head». The Center of Journalist Investigations identified these people and their stories of betrayal.

Myrne village community of Skadovsk raion has been occupied during the first hours of the Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine. Two key checkpoints «Kalanchak» and «Chaplynka» at the border of the Crimean peninsula are located here. Residents of the community saw by their own eyes how Russian troops invaded Ukraine from Crimea on February…

After Russian occupants destroyed the Kakhovka hydroelectric station, they delivered 6 liter bottles of mineral water «Kakhovka» to residents of Ivanivka community in Genichesk raion, «First of all, we sent them to social institutions and low income families», as proudly reported Igor Kastukevich, the deputy of the Russian State Duma.

Resident of Stanislav village of Kherson raion Tetyana Stasuk came back to her village immediately after its liberation from Russian occupants on November 11, 2022. Almost half of village residents have already returned to their homes.

Traitors from Crimea and Donetsk region and local collaborators manage illegally created «police departments» in temporarily occupied Kherson region. Almost all of them started their activity since the beginning of the Russian full scale invasion in Ukraine. Their task has been to overcome any resistance to the Russian occupation. They apply illegal persecution, detainment, tortures…

“When Russian occupants came, I was scared to death and was afraid to go out”, as recalls Hanna Voronko, with tears in her eyes, resident of Novoraisk village of Beryslav raion in Kherson region.  The village and Right Bank Part of Kherson region were liberated from Russian occupants on November 11, 2022. Today Hanna Vasylivna…

Russian occupants evacuated their military hospital from occupied premises of Beryslav central district hospital on the right bank of Kherson oblast on October 24. Occupants’ field hospital and checkpoint near Kostyrka village of Novoraiska territorial community of Beryslav district also disappeared. However, the number of Russian military troops did not change. 

Kherson inhabitants ran into the absence of vital drugs since the first days of full scale Russian invasion. As an occupant, the Russian Federation is obliged to satisfy vital needs of people living on occupied territory. On the contrary, Russian occupants created the shortage of everything – from drugs to food. Their goal is to…

Russia keeps using occupied territories for its own enrichment by plundering Ukrainian natural resources in Black and Azov Seas. For several years, Russian state JSC «Yuzhmorgeologia» actively conducts shelf exploration in Black and Azov Seas, including Ukrainian areas temporarily occupied by Russia. As our investigation uncovered, Caspian Engineering Company, the Kazakh partner, is involved into…