Ukrainian authorities say the Russian forces set up 'pseudo-law enforcement agencies' the southern Ukranian city, where psychological and physical violence are used to people being kept in cells.
Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's commissioner for human rights, dismissed the Russian accusations on Sunday.
Those evacuations are taking place more than a week after Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson, on the western bank of the Dnieper River, and surrounding areas in a major battlefield gain. In the weeks before Ukraine's successful counteroffensive, Russian-installed authorities encouraged and helped tens of thousands of Kherson city residents to evacuate to Russian-held areas.
To cope with the power shortages, four-hour or longer power outages were scheduled on Monday in 15 of Ukraine's 27 regions, according to Volodymyr Kudrytsky, head of Ukraine's state grid operator Ukrenergo. "The terrorist state needs to see that they do not stand a chance," he told NATO's 68th Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Madrid in a video address.fighting at the weekend that rocked Europe's largest atomic power plant with a barrage of shells
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