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.

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