The head of the Kherson MVA, Yaroslav Shanko, approved the updated composition of the Coordinating Council on supporting civilians who were deprived of personal freedom as a result of armed aggression against Ukraine, their families, and the families of persons who went missing under special circumstances, at the executive committee of the Kherson City Council.
The order was published on the Kherson City Council website.
The updated composition includes representatives of NGOs that care for the rights of the detained and their families and charitable foundations (34 people), city authorities (5 people) and state structures and law enforcement agencies (4 people).
The MVA is represented, in particular, by the first deputy head of the Kherson City Military Administration Mykhailo Lynetskyi, the deputy mayor of Kherson for the activities of the council’s executive bodies Nataliya Chornenenka, the head of the municipal council’s social policy department Alla Holovata, the director of the Department of Legal Policy and Quality of the City Council Tetyana Zhakun and the acting head of the department, deputy head of the City Council’s healthcare department Svitlana Kulinich.
Recall that the order that approved the previous composition of the Council was canceled due to public outcry. According to it, the council at one time included 23 people, of whom 10 were officials and 13 were representatives of public organizations.
As a result, an imbalance emerged, which former civilian detainees interpreted as an attempt by the Kherson MVA to make the Coordinating Council subordinate to officials.
After MOST’s publications Yaroslav Shanko promised to review the composition of the Coordinating Council, stating that two-thirds of the council would belong to civil society.