Oleg Baturin

Last year heads of local military administrations (hereinafter referred to as MA) of Kherson region have received average monthly salaries from 16 to almost 110 thousand UAH. The monthly average for their majority has been between 70 and 90 thousand UAH.  The Center for Journalist Investigations collected this information from public asset declarations published by…

Heads of 15 local military administrations in Kherson region closed an access to their asset declarations for 2024 and previous years. It is almost one third of people within this group of public officials. Earlier the Center for Journalist Investigations (CJI) analyzed why deputies of Kherson Oblast Council closed an access to their declarations. Now…

Ludmila Pestova, resident of Nova Kakhovka, visited her son Andrii in the morning of November 4, 2022. He has lived for years in Dnipryany psychoneurological boarding school, specialized residential facility for long term care and support for adults with serious mental and neurological disorders. When she came back home, she noticed a column of buses…

Forty five Ukrainian objects and assets in Kherson region were seized and illegally transferred to Russian companies and legal entities, illegally registered on temporary occupied territories of Ukraine. It is confirmed by documents of Russian occupation administration in Kherson region, hacked and delivered to the Center of Journalist Investigations by Ukrainian community KibOrg.

Russian occupation prosecutors have submitted a wave of lawsuits to Russian “arbitration court of Kherson oblast”. They require recognizing as void contracts which transferred assets of Ukrainian legal entities under management of companies owned or controlled by Russian “governor” Volodymyr Saldo and his friends. They also require reimbursing multi-million losses. However, prosecutors would like to…

After orders of senior public officials of Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities started depriving public employees on temporary occupied territories of their salaries. In some communities, it leads to a wave of dismissals. At the same time, representatives of Ukrainian authorities deny that they issued written or oral orders to suspend labor contracts with employees on…

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.