A commander was killed in his home by Russian soldiers, according to Kyiv
Ukraine’s culture ministry said Saturday that the Ukrainian train captain, Yuri Kirpatenko, was shot dead by Russian soldiers “at his home” in Kherson, in southern Ukraine occupied since the start of the conflict.
In a press release, the ministry added that the “brutal killing”, which was revealed by the media on Friday, was committed due to “Kirpatenko’s refusal to cooperate with the occupiers.”
Planned concert
The same source said that he has been working in the Kherson Regional Philharmonic since 2000 and in 2004 he became the conductor of the musical and dramatic theater of this city named after Mykola Kulish.
And the Ministry of Culture continued: “Yuri Kirpatenko publicly announced his positions and refused to leave occupied Kherson.”
“According to media reports, on the occasion of World Music Day, October 1, the occupiers and their collaborators with the Philharmonic Orchestra were planning to hold a concert in Kherson,” the source said.
The ministry explained that the Russians “wanted this concert to be a parade of the so-called” restoration of peaceful life “in Kherson, but the conductor of the orchestra, Yuri Kirpatenko, categorically refused to cooperate with the occupiers.”
Russia announced, on Thursday, that it will organize the evacuation of its territory from the residents of the Kherson region, claiming to respond to a request from the local occupation authorities threatening to advance the counter-attack of the Ukrainian army.
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