About 500,000 people now remain in the Kherson region. Before the war there were about a million inhabitants, - the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmyla Denisova wrote in her Telegram channel.
She added that the humanitarian crisis is growing in the region.
Residents of the region do not have the opportunity to travel to the territory controlled by Ukraine and have almost limited ability to move around the region.
The occupiers do not allow volunteers with humanitarian aid and loot humanitarian supplies.
According to the Mayor of the city Igor Kolykhayev, in Kherson medicines will run out in two weeks, there are no solutions for droppers, there is not enough medicine for cardiovascular diseases and there is a lack of oxygen. Significant need for medicines exists in all districts of Kherson region without exception.
"In the first days of the occupation of the southern region, the occupiers looted a large number of food chains and pharmacies. Ukrainian goods were exported to Crimea and russia,” she said.
Denisova noted that russians distribute 5-year-old products and medicines that have expired as a humanitarian aid. At the same time, in exchange for them, they require passport data, lists of pensioners, social workers and just people who live in a particular community.
Denisova reported that the russian occupiers prepare to carry out "census" of the the Kherson area population.
Also in the temporarily occupied Melitopol, russian invaders are collecting lists of people.
In the village of Strilkove (Genichesk district), the russian occupiers say that they conduct allegedly all-Russian census for the UN, trying to explain to need for a "census" of the population to the local residents there.