Retreating Russians released hundreds of prisoners from Kherson detention center
When retreating from Kherson, the Russian army released 457 prisoners from a local detention center.
Ihor Klymenko, the head of the Ukrainian National Police, named this figure during a live teleconference. Klymenko says that 166 escaped prisoners have already been found and sent to detention facilities in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions.
The Ukrainian news agency Hromadske reports that prisoners escaped from the Kherson detention center when its administration evacuated from the city together with the Russian army. One of the employees supposedly opened up the gates of the facility.
The Russian news source Sirena has published a list of escaped prisoners. 124 people on that list have murder convictions; 11 had been convicted of rape.
The Russian retreat from Kherson
- Yaroslav Yanushevych, head of the regional military administration, enters Kherson
- ‘They destroyed the entire energy system.’ Ukraine assesses the situation in liberated Kherson.
- ‘Wherever Russians were, they blew things up’ An eyewitness account of Russia’s retreat from Kherson and what’s happening there now
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