“It is reliably known about the execution of 39 pro-Russian activists,” he said.
The emergency services added that the bodies of the dead were not handed over to their relatives, the Ukrainian security forces plan to use them in staged scenes about Russia's alleged war crimes.
According to the representative of the services, another 74 people were taken to an unknown destination.
Earlier, the administration of the Kherson region stated that the Ukrainian military was carrying out repressions against the inhabitants of the right-bank part of the region.