What eyewitnesses to the incident said – Before he disappeared, Kerpatenko openly supported Ukraine, criticized the occupation authorities and the Russian army.
The British newspaper The Times reveals details about the murder of Ukrainian conductor in her lyric scene Peninsula Yuri Kerpatenko, who shortly before his death had refused to cooperate with the Russian occupation authorities. The newspaper’s journalists, after asking Kerpatenko’s neighbors, found eyewitnesses to the incident.
According to what his neighbors stated, on September 28 at seven o’clock in the morning, six men wearing Russian military uniforms arrived at Kerpatenko’s apartment and insisted that he open the door for them. One of Kerpatenko’s neighbors, a 75-year-old pensioner, hearing the noise, opened the door of her apartment to see what was happening. The Russian soldiers who noticed her told her to close the door and they wouldn’t bother her. After a while the old woman heard bursts from an automatic weapon and after some time passed, she opened her door again and saw the body of Kerpatenko, covered in blood, lying next to his apartment.
Among other things, his neighbors said that at the time of the orchestra director’s murder, there were several military and FSB men on the street outside the house, who were holding weapons and aimed at the windows of the apartment building.
Eyewitnesses claim that after his murder, Kerpatenko’s body was at the entrance until noon. Later it was taken but to this day no one knows where it is.
The Russian Ministry of Defense and Russian authorities have not yet commented on The Times’ report.
At the end of September, the disappearance of the main conductor of the Lyric Theater of Kherson, 46-year-old Yuri Kerpatenko, was announced. Later, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine announced that Kerpatenko was killed by the Russian military because he refused to participate in a concert organized by the representatives of the occupying authorities, however, neither the circumstances of Kerpatenko’s death nor the exact date of his death were known until today . Before he disappeared, Kerpatenko openly supported Ukraine, criticized the occupation authorities and the Russian army.
Kherson was occupied by Russian troops at the beginning of the war. At the end of September, an agreement was signed in the Kremlin on the integration of four occupied regions of Ukraine, including part of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson into Russia. This decision was not recognized by any country in the world.
In early November, under pressure from the Ukrainian army, the Russian military command decided to withdraw its troops from Kherson and the surrounding areas on the right bank of the Dnieper River, claiming that there were problems with supplies and that it had to save the lives of Russian soldiers.
On November 11, units of the Ukrainian army entered Kherson. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesny, more than 400 military crimes committed by the Russian army have been recorded in the liberated areas of the Kherson region.
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