Ukraine on Tuesday accused the Russian army of arresting about 600 people, most of them journalists and activists, in the Kherson region (south), which is completely occupied by Russian troops.

“According to the information we have, about 600 people are being held in specially designated basements in the Kherson region,” said Tamila Tacheva, the Ukrainian president’s representative in Crimea. 2014.

These are “mostly journalists and activists” who organize “pro-Ukrainian demonstrations in Kherson and its region.”

“They are held in inhumane conditions and tortured,” Tacheva accused, without giving details.

The same source said that some of the prisoners of war, as well as civilians detained in the Kherson region, were later sent to prisons in the Crimea.

Kherson had a population of over one million before the Russian invasion at the end of February.