In the temporarily occupied Henichesk in the Kherson region there has been an increase in the transfer of reserve forces of the Russian army The enemy's officer corps is concerned that this may be linked to plans to launch an offensive on the right bank of the region according to the Telegram channel of the partisan movement Atesh who is connected to the Russian officer corps of the Russian forces Dnieper revealed information about the buildup of forces in the Henichesk district It is noted that among the Russian servicemen deployed to the area are many soldiers who joined the Russian army during the covert mobilization from the occupied Crimea suggesting that this is being done in preparation for an offensive on the right bank of the Kherson region," representatives of the partisan movement reported The Atesh also pointed out that it remains unclear whether the Russian military leadership intends to deploy these new reserves into combat in the Kherson region Partisans note that such actions by the enemy could also be an attempt to misinform the Ukrainian Defense Forces After the liberation of Kherson during the counteroffensive by the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the fall of 2022 when the Russian army was pushed back from the right bank of the Kherson region it retreated to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River there have been occasional reports in the information space about the enemy's alleged intentions to resume an offensive on the right bank of the Kherson region such claims have been linked to enemy psychological operations Recently, the Defense Forces reported that Russian forces are attacking along the entire front line in southern Ukraine but no significant concentration of enemy forces for a large-scale offensive has been recorded the spokesperson for the Southern Defense Forces of Ukraine stated that the Armed Forces control most of the islands in the Kherson area He also noted that the Russian army attempts daily to land troops and establish a foothold on the right bank of the Dnipro According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this on Facebook "On this difficult day for our country when the Ukrainian people are repelling the Russian occupiers in all directions one of the most difficult places on the map of Ukraine was the Isthmus of Perekop where a separate marines battalion was one of the first to meet the enemy," the statement said the decision was made to blow up the Henichesk road bridge The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that Vitaliy Skakun Vitaliy got in touch and said that he was blowing up the bridge His heroic deed significantly slowed the enemy's advance which allowed the unit to redeploy and organize the defense," the statement said Russian troops seized the Kakhovka HPP and bridges across the North Crimean Canal and all government agencies in the Henichesk district came under the control of the invaders While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 The Defense Forces of Ukraine damaged the logistics routes of the Russians to Crimea from the territory of the occupied Kherson Oblast as well as the crossing over the Tonka Strait “At around 15:00, Ukraine’s defense forces struck the Chonhar and Henichesk automobile bridges, two key communication routes used by the occupiers. Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Sunday The Russians claim that the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched 12 long-range missiles most of which were allegedly shot down by the occupiers’ air defenses several potholes are known to have formed on the Chonhar Bridge and there is also damage on the Henichesk Bridge Against the background of Russian statements about “minor damage” to bridges Ukrainian users of social media created dozens of memes – in particular that “mice ate the Chonhar Bridge” the Armed Forces of Ukraine already attacked the Chonhar highway bridge This crossing is one of the main ones for the Russian occupying forces in the captured parts of the Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts the railway bridge across Chonhar was damaged at the end of July The transport artery is used to supply ammunition and fuel from occupied Crimea to Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine [email protected] [email protected] FB: @uwcongress You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Participants of the rallies posted relevant reports in a video posted on Facebook by Oleg Gorbovskiy people marched with Ukrainian flags towards the city center They were singing the national anthem of Ukraine Slogans against the Russian occupiers were heard from the crowd: "Henichesk is Ukraine!" where local residents came to the buildings occupied by the Russian soldiers and demanded that they leave Ukraine local residents also went out to the streets to protest against the invasion pro-Ukrainian rallies against Russian invaders also took place in Kherson Nova Kakhovka and Novooleksiyivka on March 6 Russian state news agency says Henichesk declared temporary administrative capital after Kherson city taken by Ukraine one of the members of the Russian-imposed administration in occupied Kherson oblast has said Henichesk has been declared the temporary administrative capital of Kherson The region is one of the areas that the Russian Federation has claimed to have annexed He said: “All the main authorities are concentrated there.” It is very close to the border with the Crimea region but a significant distance from Kherson city and the Dnipro River Ukraine is carrying out “stabilisation measures” near the city of Kherson after it was retaken by Ukrainian forces people across the country had awoken on Saturday from a night of jubilant celebrations following what has been described as a “historic day” for Kyiv and perhaps the most important strategic breakthrough since the beginning of the Russian invasion Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv’s forces have established control in over 60 settlements in the Kherson region and that stabilisation measures are being carried out in Kherson He added that Russian forces have destroyed all Kherson’s critical infrastructure before they fled including communications water supplies along with heat and electricity supplies hundreds of citizens flooded the streets on Saturday morning reaching out to greet and embrace Ukrainian soldiers and the first foreign journalists on the scene Zelenskiy cautioned that while special military units had reached Kherson city a full deployment to reinforce the advance troops was still under way – a reminder that about 70% of the Kherson region remains under Russian control Zelenskiy declared the city to be “ours” and that it was a “historic” day for the country, after Russia announced the completion of its withdrawal from the regional capital. In a statement on his Telegram page he said people in Kherson never gave up hope on Ukraine adding: “Hope for Ukraine is always justified – and Ukraine always returns its own.” A Ukrainian defence ministry spokesperson has told the BBC that Ukraine’s forces are almost in full control of Kherson Russia said more than 30,000 service personnel had been withdrawn to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River The defence ministry said its evacuation had been completed by 5am Moscow time on Friday The ministry said there was no military hardware or soldiers left on the western side of the river However, reports have emerged of some Russian troops being left behind in Ukraine and changing into civilian clothes, or drowning trying to escape. The Ukrainian ministry of defence’s intelligence unit has urged Russian soldiers to surrender The Antonivskiy Bridge, the only nearby road crossing from the city of Kherson to the Russian-controlled eastern bank of the Dnipro River, has been blown up There was significant new damage to the nearby major Nova Kakhovka dam after the withdrawal and footage emerged of explosions at the location Britain said Russia’s withdrawal from the only regional capital in Ukraine that it had captured since its invasion began in February was another humiliation for its army but that Moscow continued to pose a threat “Russia’s announced withdrawal from Kherson marks another strategic failure for them,” the British defence secretary Russia failed to take any of its major objectives except Kherson ordinary people of Russia must surely ask themselves: ‘What was it all for?’” Wallace said Russia has restated its insistence on unhindered access to world markets for its food and fertiliser exports after what it called a “thorough exchange of views” with UN officials on Friday in Geneva has been quoted by the state news agency Tass as saying talks with UN officials had been useful and detailed but the issue of renewing the Black Sea grain export deal – which expires in one week – had yet to be resolved Vershinin was quoted as saying that restoring access to the Swift payments system for the agricultural lender Rosselkhozbank was a key issue Turkey is committed to seeking a peace dialogue between Russia and Ukraine President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday “We are working on how to create a peace corridor here like we had the grain corridor,” Erdoğan was quoted as telling reporters on a flight from Uzbekistan The president said he would not be proposing a specific timeframe for any extension of the grain corridor deal but said he wants it to run “as long as possible” The Russian state-owned news agency Tass is reporting that Russia has banned the passage of ships loaded outside the Russian Federation through the Kerch Strait to the Sea of ​​Azov Russian oligarchs and executives from multiple companies under international sanctions are among the lobbyists attending Cop27 in Sharm el-Sheikh Updated at 20.37 CET12 Nov 202220.06 CETZelenskiy added that Ukraine was able to conduct successful operations in Kherson and elsewhere in part because of resistance in the Donetsk region in the face of repeated Russian attacks. “There it is just hell – there are extremely fierce battles there every day,” he said. “But our units are defending bravely – they are withstanding the terrible pressure of the invaders, preserving our defence lines.” “Before fleeing from Kherson, the occupiers destroyed all the critical infrastructure: communications, water, heat, electricity,” he said. “(Russians) everywhere have the same goal: to humiliate people as much as possible. But we will restore everything, believe me,” Zelenskiy added. Updated at 19.54 CET12 Nov 202219.13 CETUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, says Kyiv’s forces have established control in over 60 settlements in the Kherson region and that stabilisation measures are being carried out in Kherson. Updated at 19.54 CET12 Nov 202218.48 CETUkraine is carrying out “stabilisation measures” near Kherson on Saturday after its forces retook the city, write Lorenzo Tondo and Luke Harding. Hundreds of citizens flooded on to the city streets on Saturday morning after a night of jubilation that the eight-month occupation had ended, embracing Ukrainian soldiers and foreign journalists following what has been described as a “historic day” for Kyiv – and perhaps the most important strategic breakthrough since the beginning of the Russian invasion. However, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, cautioned that while special military units had reached Kherson city, a full deployment to reinforce the advance troops was still under way – a reminder that about 70% of the Kherson region remains under Russian control. “We are winning battles on the ground, but the war continues,” said the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, from Cambodia, where he was attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. “A number of topical issues on the bilateral agenda were discussed, with the emphasis on further enhancing cooperation in the political, trade and economic fields, including the transport and logistics sector,” the Kremlin said. It did not say when the phone call took place and made no mention of Iranian arms supplies to Moscow. Updated at 18.45 CET12 Nov 202218.09 CETResidents of the village of Blahodatne in the Kherson region greeted Reuters reporters with tears of joy according to the readout of US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s meeting with Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba in Phnom Penh Blinken also discussed the US’s unwavering commitment to assist Ukraine in mitigating the effects of Russia’s attacks on critical infrastructure as winter approaches “Secretary (Blinken) reiterated that the timing and contents of any negotiation framework remains Ukraine’s decision,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Moscow-installed administration in the occupied Kherson region of Ukraine, was buried in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Friday, state-run news agency RIA Novosti reported Stremousov, 45, died in an apparent car accident near the town of Henichesk on Wednesday, according to local officials.   The funeral ceremony was attended by the Kremlin's first deputy chief of staff Sergei Kiriyenko; the Russian-appointed governors of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions Vladimir Saldo and Yevgeny Balitsky; and the head of Russian-annexed Crimea Stremousov is the most senior Russian-appointed official in occupied Ukraine to die since the start of the invasion Known for being an anti-vaxxer before the war he enthusiastically welcomed the arrival of Russian forces in Kherson in March "His main task was to serve the people, serve his country, his city. He walked the path of service honestly to the very end," Kirienko said at the funeral ceremony Known for his extreme anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, Stremousov was one of a group of officials that the Kremlin had instructed state-run media outlets to quote less frequently just days before his death, independent media outlet Meduza reported. Last month Stremousov openly criticized Russia’s Defense Ministry and its actions in Kherson in a Telegram post condemning the country's "mediocre military leaders." As the deputy head of the pro-Russian Kherson administration Stremousov was involved in the holding of a referendum on whether the region should join the Russian Federation in September in which joining Russia was backed by some 87% of those who voted was widely-criticized as a "sham" by the international community Russia's Prosecutor General's Office has designated The Moscow Times as an "undesirable" organization criminalizing our work and putting our staff at risk of prosecution This follows our earlier unjust labeling as a "foreign agent." These actions are direct attempts to silence independent journalism in Russia The authorities claim our work "discredits the decisions of the Russian leadership." We see things differently: we strive to provide accurate We, the journalists of The Moscow Times, refuse to be silenced. But to continue our work, we need your help please support us monthly starting from just $2 and every contribution makes a significant impact independent journalism in the face of repression This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Click 'OK' then 'Allow' to enable notifications InstagramXThreadsSnapchatTikTokYouTubeLAD Entertainment Home> News A Ukrainian soldier has been hailed as a hero after he blew himself up with a bridge in order to stop Russian troops advancing Sharing the news on their Facebook page the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Vitaliy Skakun Volodymyrovych took up a position at a bridge near to Crimea when Russian tanks were advancing When he realised that he would not be able to get out in time before the explosion he allegedly took the decision to stay down and ensure that the bridge was destroyed His country's armed forces have since called him a hero The translated post reads: "On this difficult day for our country where a separate marines battalion was one of the first to meet the enemy," Quoting the same force, Euromaidan Press wrote on Twitter: "To stop the advance of the tank column the decision was to blow up the Henichesk bridge "The engineer Skakun Vitaliy volunteered to perform this task He mined the bridge but couldn't leave and blew it up together with himself." His comrades reported that they heard from Vitaliy that he planned to blow up the bridge The general staff statement continued: "Our comrade died "His heroic deed significantly slowed the enemy's advance which allowed the unit to redeploy and organise the defence," The statement also confirmed that Vitaliy will be considered for a state military award They said: “The Marine Command will apply to the High Command to award the state award to sailor Skakun Vitaliy Volodymyrovych.” it is believed that the area has now been seized by Russian forces which started in the early hours of Thursday morning with Russian forces moving towards the capital Kyiv footage this morning appeared to show that tanks had arrived in the capital Ukraine’s government has banned men aged between 18 and 60 years old from leaving the area and has asked that anyone who is willing and able to take up arms against the invaders should do so have enacted severe sanctions against Russia although many believe that these sanctions do not go far enough If you would like to donate to the Red Cross Emergency Appeal, which will help provide food, medicines and basic medical supplies, shelter and water to those in Ukraine, click here for more information Topics: World News, Russia President Volodymyr Zelenskyi decided to award the title of Hero of Ukraine to Vitalii Skakun a sapper of the 35th Separate Marine Brigade His heroic deed slowed the advance of the enemy moving from the Crimea This allowed the unit to redeploy and organize assistance According to the press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine when one of the most difficult places on the map of Ukraine was the Crimean Isthmus it was decided to blow up the Henichesk road bridge Vitalii Skakun volunteered to fulfill this task Vitalii got in touch and said he was blowing up the bridge sapper of the engineering and sapper department of a separate battalion of the separate 35th Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was born in Ternopil region After graduating from the Higher Vocational School in Lviv No 20 he studied at Lviv Polytechnic National University we will fight!» – emphasize in the General Staff of the Marine Corps Command E-mail: coffice@lpnu.ua Colonisation appears to have superseded ‘denazification’ in Putin’s military goals for eastern Ukraine Last week a familiar figure returned to the main square of the seaside town of Henichesk and sporting his familiar goatee and moustache A statue of the Bolshevik leader had been erected outside the town’s main council building Flying from the roof were the Russian and Soviet flags All in time for Lenin’s 152nd birthday on Friday Henichesk, however, is not in Russia. It is – or was, until Vladimir Putin’s invasion – a sleepy settlement in southern Ukraine The town of 20,000 people has a house of culture a long strip of beach and a Vegas-themed hotel It also has new imperial masters: Russians They arrived from Crimea on 24 February in armoured vehicles rolling past a shimmering landscape of lagoons and dunes One woman was unimpressed “What the fuck are you doing here?” she asked an enemy soldier You came to my land uninvited.” She then tried to hand him a packet of seeds “These are so sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here Henichesk may soon become part of a so-called “People’s Republic of Kherson” Moscow is planning to hold a sham independence referendum in the southern oblast Grateful local voters will express their desire to “break away” from Ukraine when it instigated and armed a pro-Russia separatist rebellion in the eastern Donbas region It staged pseudo-votes in the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk The Russian army is now seeking to grab further Ukrainian territory and to expand the “republics” Putin’s fuzzy war aims evolved last week after his unsuccessful attempt to seize Ukraine’s capital There is now little talk of his original objective: to “de-Nazify” and to “de-militarise” Ukraine and its leadership Russian generals speak openly about conquest The invasion has become a grandiose colonial project to reshape Europe’s map and to steal Ukraine’s coast future targets once the battle for Donbas is won The corridor would link up with Transnistria a breakaway Soviet-style territory in Moldova that is already home to Russian “peacekeepers” the Kremlin is consolidating control in Henichesk and other southern areas and co-option for those willing to serve Russian interests activists and journalists are being arrested In the city of Kakhovka hostages are beaten and tortured with electric shocks in a police station according to Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman The new authorities have shut down independent media outlets and turned off Ukrainian TV They have switched on Russian propaganda channels broadcasting from Crimea The message: life has improved with the arrival of Russian forces “We are in an information vacuum,” one resident said She added that there was no internet for week-long periods a purge of Ukrainian politicians is under way He and his colleagues posed for a photo in the town park next to a statue of Taras Shevchenko It is unclear if the mayor has shared the fate of other elected officials who have been abducted the Russians hacked Henichesk’s municipal website and announced Tulupov had voluntarily “resigned” who had lived in annexed Crimea for eight years Moscow appointed as mayor a Russian deputy from Putin’s ruling United Russia party Residents told the Observer there had been a full-blown campaign to erase Ukraine’s national identity Ukrainian flags have been ripped from civic buildings In Melitopol teachers are being forced to use Russian and to teach the Kremlin’s school curriculum The authorities have said some may need to be “retrained” in Crimea Russian “military police” units have destroyed Ukrainian literature and textbooks The historian Anne Applebaum said the Russian government’s methods in Ukraine were darkly familiar Today’s Moscow is replicating what Soviet forces did in occupied Poland the Baltic states and the rest of central Europe in 1939 as well as at the end of the second world war It was an “eerily precise repeat of the NKVD [Soviet secret police] and Red Army’s behaviour,” she said She added: “They have lists of people to arrest – mayors They systematically rape and murder civilians They deport other people en masse to Russia Applebaum said there was “one new twist” in Russia’s takeover of southern and eastern Ukraine now the scene of a brutal battle for the Donbas “Because modern Russia stands for nothing except corruption they have brought back Soviet flags as well as Lenin statues to symbolise Russian victory,” she said This is the last sighting of Henichesk’s mayor Oleksandr Tulupov next to the statue of Taras Shevchenko in the city’s park.Ukraine removed its Lenin statues in 2014 Monuments vanished from squares in Kharkiv Communist slogans were banned under “decommunisation” laws passed by Ukraine’s parliament Henichesk and other occupied areas are now seeing forced “recommunisation” a first deputy chairman in Kherson’s regional council said the Russian “orcs” were putting up communist-era memorials and “moving to the past” This was taking place against the backdrop of a worsening humanitarian crisis the strict suppression of dissent and a clampdown on anyone who expressed a pro-Ukrainian political stance He added: “Their motive is absolutely transparent They try to parasite on the nostalgic sentiments of the population The problem is that these almost don’t exist in the [Kherson] area Our people live in the present and have a very real and successful future the ‘USSR show’ will go on until Ukraine’s armed forces liberate our territory.” Marina – a woman living in the occupied southern port of Berdyansk – said the city’s new overlords were planning to stage a Red Square-style victory parade on 9 May I was a pioneer and in the Komsomol [communist youth organisation] “It’s the same scenario here as in the Donbas eight years ago the Russians had seized the local TV station and taken over its newspaper They raided the passport office and stole personal data Soldiers demanded documents at checkpoints Russian armoured vehicles marked with a Z drove past regularly but Berdyansk was practically out of medicine Humanitarian deliveries from Ukrainian-controlled areas had ceased Most southern residents opposed Russia’s takeover the Kremlin has found some locals willing to collaborate The new “mayor” of Mariupol is a veteran politician from the pro-Russian Opposition Bloc party said his counterpart had advised the Russians which infrastructure targets to shell He had left his apartment block at 8.15am and climbed into his grey Mazda It’s unclear who raked the front of his car with automatic gunfire said it was impossible to stop patriotic citizens from taking out “traitors” residents can attempt to travel from Russian zones into Ukrainian-controlled territory Yulia – a woman from Berdyansk – said soldiers took her uncle from his car and threatened to shoot him in the knee The doctor husband of a friend of hers was taken away at a checkpoint Yulia said the popular “mood was against Russia” This was especially true among younger people that Russian TV was beginning to have an effect on pensioners who grew up in the Soviet Union “My husband’s grandfather told us the Russians weren’t bombing Kharkiv It was difficult to convince him this was a lie,” she said It seems the Kremlin is not planning to leave southern Ukraine any time soon A new stamp being used by Berdyansk’s “military-civilian administration” says the port is part of “Russia” There are plans to replace the Ukrainian currency to forcibly conscript men to fight on the Russian side against Ukraine’s army President Zelenskiy urged residents in occupied areas to “cause trouble” and said they should not take part in Moscow’s voting “show” Initially hundreds of pro-Ukrainian protesters took to the streets of Kherson In Melitopol a passer-by tore down a Russian flag The occupied Melitopol. Ukrainian man tears down Putin’s disgusting tricolor.#StandWithUkraine #ArmUkraineNow #StopRussia pic.twitter.com/fsRWIJ1lFs More recently Russian soldiers have violently dispersed rallies with teargas and live rounds It is only a matter of time before the “green corridors” allowing locals to flee occupation are closed down The Russian army has reportedly mined the main road leading north of Kherson Back in Henichesk, the Lenin statue looks set to stay. His unlikely comeback speaks to the ideological vacancy at the heart of Putin’s imperial project on the borderlands of Europe Russia’s president blamed Lenin and his associates for creating Ukraine by making it in 1922 an autonomous socialist republic – an act which deprived Russia “They don’t understand what they are doing,” Marina from Berdyansk said of her Russian occupiers “Our local chats were flooded with an invitation to a cultural event celebrating Lenin’s birthday This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media by Tarla Lambert-Patel | February 25 It’s hard to fathom what the people of Ukraine are experiencing right now With Russian soldiers teeming every street corner and missiles flying overhead Yet one civillian woman has channelled this into a courageous act a city along the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine Confronting two heavily armed Russian soldiers the woman powerfully demands they explain their actions “What the f*** are you doing in our land?” she shouts In a translation of the video offered on Twitter the soldier responds urging the woman not to escalate the situation Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower seeds in their pockets [so that flowers would grow when they die on the Ukrainian land] pic.twitter.com/ztTx2qK7kB “You should put sunflower seeds in your pockets so that they will grow on Ukrainian land after you die,” she continues Sharing this transcript from @FutureBoy of an interaction between a Ukrainian woman & Russian soldiers. Not RT’ing the QT or the original b/c I’m trying to be cognizant of exposing protestors/rebels/people to state surveillance & targeted violence.The exchange is breathtaking. pic.twitter.com/PzRy5wCVJz The footage has been shared widely on social media with thousands standing in solidarity with the people of Ukraine “I could never be that brave,” one person said “This women has 100 times more courage than I could ever muster” commented another by Tarla Lambert-Patel Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Gina Rinehart has released a statement blaming “the left media” for the Liberal party’s election loss over the weekend A man who groped 18 women at a Melbourne nightclub has been given a two-year community corrections order & 180 hours of unpaid community work Linda Reynolds has labelled her party’s election loss a “comprehensive failure” and said the Liberal Party needs to look at quotas or targets for women the Prime Minister didn’t hesitate: universal affordable early childhood education and care a sweep of female politicians took over safe Liberal seats in WA Donald Trump’s hate politics is finally doing some good It’s showing other countries what they don’t want their governments to look like Women’s Agenda is published by the 100% women owned and run Agenda Media Advertising and partnerships support our independent journalism We acknowledge and pay respect to the past present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" Four law enforcement employees who betrayed Ukraine and joined the ranks of the occupiers were served with notices of suspicion in absentia by SBI officers at the start of the full-scale russian invasion one of the suspects disobeyed the order to evacuate and headed the city's "Ministry of Emergency Situations." For his active participation with the invaders he received a diploma from the occupation government Another traitor arrived in Sievierodonetsk after 24 February 2022 and also went to "serve" in the fire department of the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR" the third defendant headed one of the fire and rescue units in Sievierodonetsk after the temporary occupation of the city he became the head of the fire department of the 'LPR Ministry of Emergency Situations' in Rubizhne he participated in a meeting with a delegation from unrecognised Abkhazia which he interviewed on propaganda TV channels Another law enforcement officer went to work for the occupiers in Genichesk He got a job in the fake institution of the occupation administration - the so-called police which operated under the laws of the Russian Federation Three ex-law enforcement officers from Luhansk region were served in absentia notices of suspicion of high treason (Part 2 of Art A defendant working for the occupiers in Genichesk was served in absentia a notice of suspicion of voluntarily holding a position in an illegal law enforcement agency (Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) The sanction of the articles provides for punishment in the form of life imprisonment Procedural supervision is carried out by the Luhansk Regional Prosecutor's Office and the Kherson Specialised Defence Prosecutor's Office of the Southern Region Report corruption in the DBR Submit an appeal