Yuriy Kerpatenko refused to cooperate with the invaders.
Russian military brutally killed the chief conductor of the Kherson musical Drama Theater named after Mykola Kulish Yury Kerpatenko. According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, the conductor refused to cooperate with the occupiers, after which he was shot in his own home.
Before October 1, the International Day of Music, the occupiers together with collaborators in the philharmonic wanted to hold a concert in Kherson with the participation of of the famous Gilea chamber orchestra. According to the plan of the invaders, this concert was supposed to demonstrate the “restoration of peaceful life in the city.” But Kerpatenko categorically refused to cooperate with the occupiers.
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The conductor has worked in the Kherson Regional Philharmonic since 2000. In 2004, he became the chief conductor of the Kherson Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Kulish. He acted as the chief conductor of the Gilea Chamber Orchestra. After the capture of Kherson by the occupiers, Kerpatenko openly expressed his civic position and refused to leave the captured city.
According to the OC “South”, the occupiers in the Kherson region use terror against the civilian population against the background of the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in de-occupying the captured territories. Russians break into the premises of enterprises and residential buildings, rob them and thoroughly check the documents and contents of the phones of local residents.
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