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In the Kherson region, the occupiers kidnapped 7 more civilians, one of them being a priest

06.09.2022, 12:15

In the temporarily occupied Kherson region, Russian servicemen kidnapped and tortured 7 civilians. In particular, a local priest was taken from a church in the Kherson district.

According to UNN, this was reported by the press service of the police of the Kherson region.

"The abductions of 7 civilians were recorded in the region: in Hola Prystan and Nova Kahovka, Russian servicemen kidnapped two men; in Kherson, the occupiers kidnapped a woman; in the Kherson district, armed Russian soldiers kidnapped a priest and two local residents from a church; in the Kakhovsky district, Russian soldiers captured a resident of one of the villages, it is known that the man is being tortured," the message reads.

Also, in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, Russian invaders kidnapped family doctor Artem Fartushny.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, 393 people have been kidnapped in the Zaporizhzhia region. Among them are 46 representatives of local authorities.

In the occupied Energodar, Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian invaders kidnapped Borys Yarmolenko, the head of the communal property department of the Energodar city council.

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