► Ukraine says it has discovered four “torture sites” used by Russians in Kherson
On the 271st day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Monday, November 21, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office announced that it had discovered four “torture sites” used by the Russians in Kherson during their occupation of this southern Ukrainian city until it was recaptured by troops from kyiv.
“In Kherson, prosecutors continue to establish Russia’s crimes: torture sites have been established in four buildings”, said the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office on Telegram. kyiv has, since the liberation of the city on November 11, repeatedly denounced the “war crimes” and the “atrocities” Russians in the region.
“Pieces of rubber truncheons, a wooden bat, a device used by the occupiers to shock civilians, an incandescent lamp and bullets (…) were seized”added the same source, ten days after the recapture of Kherson by the Ukrainian army
► Alleged executions in Ukraine: Moscow wants to “find and punish” the culprits
The Kremlin accuses the Ukrainians in return and promised on Monday to punish those responsible for the death of a group of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, denounced as a ” war crime “. On the basis of videos posted on social networks, Russia claims that the Ukrainian army executed more than ten of its soldiers who had laid down their arms.
“Naturally Russia will itself search for those who committed this crime. They must be found and punished,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He added that Moscow will turn to international bodies for this purpose, “if it can be useful”.
► 9 years of Euromaidan
Under the snow, President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated on Monday the 9th anniversary of the start of the pro-Western Euromaidan revolution. The movement led to the dismissal of a pro-Russian president at the cost of a crackdown that left more than a hundred dead. In return, Russia had annexed Crimea and stirred up an armed rebellion in the Donbass (East).
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena honored the memory of deceased activists” in 2014, notably by respecting a minute of silence, the Ukrainian presidency said in a press release.