Over a year of missing: Kherson mayor Igor Kolikhayev was placed in the list of captives of the Russian Federation

The mayor of Kherson was abducted by the Russian military in June 2022. The son of Svyatoslav stated that on September 13, the Red Cross reported that Russia had filed his father in the list of prisoners. It is known that the mayor of Kherson is in the territory of the Russian Federation. The Red Cross officially confirmed the stay of the mayor of Kherson Igor Kolikhayev in the Russian captivity. His son Svyatoslav Kolikhayev told this "public".

According to him, the status was officially confirmed on September 13, 2023. "I contacted the Red Cross and I was told that the Russian side had submitted my father Igor Kolikhayev to the list of prisoners, and he was in the territory The staff's office, "said the son of the mayor of Kherson. We will remind, Igor Kolikhayev was considered missing since June 2022.

City Council Secretary Galina Lugova reported that Russian servicemen detained the mayor because of his unwillingness to cooperate with the occupying administration of the Russian Federation. It is known that after a full -scale Russian invasion, Kulikhayev did not leave the captured city and was constantly in the occupied regional center. Almost immediately the occupiers removed the mayor from work and "appointed" in his place of Kherson Alexander Kobts, who had lived in Kiev for a long time.

After the disappearance of Kolykhayev was known, on July 7, 2022, the authority of the Kherson mayor was temporarily fulfilled by the secretary of the city council Galina Lugova. And on March 2, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Roman Mrochka, the new chairman of the Kherson City Military Administration. On September 17, Gennady Laguta was aware of the death of the excavity of the Kherson Regional State Administration. He was considered a close associate of Kolikhayev.

Official information about the causes of his death was not reported. Journalists of the local edition "Bridge", with reference to their sources, noted that Laguta died in one of the Kiev hospitals at night on September 17. Later, the deputy of the Kherson Regional Council Sergey Khlan stated that Laguta allegedly committed suicide, drinking a deadly dose of pills.