"Explosive" New Year's Eve in Khorly: Media learned who died in Kherson region

The media have collected information released by the occupation authorities about the dead in the village of Khorly, Kherson region, after the strike on New Year's Eve, January 1, 2026.

According to kavun.city, the Russians cannot identify all the bodies at once. The fact is that the celebrants in Khorly are mostly non-locals: Russian military and collaborators. That is why none of the locals started looking for them right away.

Oksana Buganova, the owner of the restaurant, who registered it under Russian law and worked for the occupiers, is relatively local.

Also among the dead is the former head of the Kalanchak occupation police, Serhiy Bogan. His wife Yulia, who worked as a deputy for social issues for the occupation leader of Nova Kakhovka, cannot be found either.

Other victims in Khorla:

Mahmud Shirvaniievich Admisayev (born in 1977) is a native of Grozny (Russia), who lived in Crimea for some time. According to investigators, he was wanted in Russia for drug trafficking.

Voloshko Mykhailo Viktorovych (born in 1983) - a resident of Nova Kakhovka, who lived in Kalanchak before the full-scale invasion. He was registered as an individual entrepreneur in the field of IT technologies.

Ostrovska Hanna Oleksiivna (born in 1999) is a resident of Kalanchak. She had her own business in the field of floristry (flower studio), in October 2024 she registered as an entrepreneur under Russian law.

Klim Daria Serhiivna (born in 2008) is a 17-year-old girl, the daughter of a local farmer, Serhii Klim, who continued his business activities during the occupation.

Irina Diagileva is a resident of Crimea, came from Armyansk and was the host of the "holiday". In Armyansk, she worked at the occupation-affiliated Center for Children and Youth Creativity.

Svetlana Goldobina (born in 1981) - from Kalanchak, registered as an entrepreneur who runs a business in Kalanchak, registered it on 03.04.2023.

Svitlana Dudchenko is a tattoo artist from Kalanchak who performed work for the Russian military.

Olga Temiezhnikova (born in 1995) from Kalanchak. This is the first known victim who did not openly cooperate with the occupiers, but worked as a cook in this cafe.

Anastasia Sabitova (born in 2001) was a resident of Kalanchak who worked in the occupation administration, in the department that dealt with property accounting. She took part in the final of the racist project "Heroes of Kherson Region: All Ours".

What we know about Khorly

Khorly is one of the villages of the Kalanchak village community in the Kherson region. It is located on the Bitter Corner Peninsula, which is washed by the Black Sea. And before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this village was a resort.

According to Serhiy Nikitenko, editor-in-chief of Most, the village of Khorly is a very small settlement, even by the standards of the Kherson region, the Black Sea region.

According to Serhiy Danilov, a researcher of southern Ukraine and deputy director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 600 people lived there before the full-scale invasion.

"With the full-scale invasion, as a result of the actions of the occupation administrations, the vast majority of even those 600 people were forced to flee. Especially those whose houses were somewhat better. Those houses were managed by a local gauleiter who rented them out to the Russian military or FSB, or some other Russian specialists," Serhiy Danylov told Radio Liberty.

According to Anton Pavlushko, an analyst at the InformNapalm project, in the context of the full-scale Russian invasion, Khorly, like other coastal areas of southern Ukraine, has actually turned into a "closed zone" due to the active military presence of the occupiers.

According to him, local residents avoid coastal hotels, former Soviet sanatoriums, recreation centers, and establishments by the sea, as they are well aware that the Russian military is stationed there. Anton Pavlushko notes that the first line of Russian air defense is permanently deployed in the area to intercept drones heading toward Crimea. The Buk and Osa anti-aircraft systems are operating in the fields, and Russian patrol boats are deployed from there to control unmanned boats and protect the Tendra Spit.

According to him, the area is fully militarized and full of military facilities.

The information about the closed nature of the settlement and the practical absence of local residents is also confirmed by Russian sources, which were analyzed by journalist Denis Kazansky.

Ірина Глухова