"The deputies quickly disappeared." The journalist from Kherson told about the "greatest crime" at the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation and the shooting

Kherson's silence was the "greatest crime" at the beginning of the invasion of Russian troops, says journalist Konstantin Ryzhenko. After almost six months of life in occupation, he left with the city captured by the Russians. On February 24, at 13:00, none of the officials was in any body of Kherson's authorities, Ryzhenko told in an interview with HB. “The police were somewhere around the city, did not see the military. I drove all the structures: no one did anything, I did not give any orders.

All the first day I went the city and, sorry, oh . . . in. He went to the City Council, look. The mayor [Igor Kolikhayev] acted quite passively and said that it was difficult for him to work, because he did not drink coffee . . . There was no terroborons, there was nothing . . . ", - said the journalist. The video of the day, according to him, the local authorities were silent, the central was concerned about Kiev, and Kherson residents did not understand what was happening.

Ryzhenko recalls that activists began to organize in the City Council, several local deputies came. Subsequently, he said, an unofficial self -organized Terrobron appeared. "Just people who said: we want to protect the city . . . Nobody organized a terroboron. They were given several calas and just because people demanded . . . But it was a natural defense, ”the journalist emphasized. Then Ryzhenko realized: "The local authorities left the citizens completely. " “I don't know why it happened.

The fact that the military was fighting around the city was 100%. But the local authorities left the citizens completely. Deputies, officials quickly disappeared. And there are either those who have a lot of property in the city, or collaborators, who then showed themselves, ”Ryzhenko says. He stated that self -organized Terrobron did not know that there were no military in the city because they were given an order to depart. "Then no one said. He also said nothing, ”Ryzhenko says.