The occupants have kidnapped 457 people in the occupied Kherson region since the beginning of the invasion.
This was reported by Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova, reports Ukrainskie Noviny.

“The invaders rape, destroy infrastructure, and also kidnap elected mayors and village heads, whose places are taken by collaborators. Since the military aggression, the law enforcement agencies of the region have recorded the facts of the abduction or disappearance of 457 people,” she wrote on Facebook.

Among them, the mayors of Kakhovka, Tavriisk, Skadovsk, Gola Prystan, Berislav, village chairmen of Novoalexandrovskaya, Bekhterskaya and Milovskaya OPG, the chairman of Chernobaevskaya village council and his deputy, headmen of the villages Staraya Zburevka, Zmievka and Osokovka, the secretary of Novokohovsky city council, 43 law enforcement officers and 2 clergymen.

At present the investigation is aware of the release of 306 citizens.

The occupants continue to illegally detain 151 people, including deputies of local councils, the director of Novokakhovsky Lyceum #10, the former mayor of Kherson, 8 law enforcers and other citizens.