Horror: Ukrainian conductor is murdered by Russians
NewsWe have received reports that the conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko was murdered yesterday at his home in occupied Kherson by Russian military personnel. He apparently refused to open the door to heavily armed men.
UPDATE: Friends of Yuriy tell us that he refused to cooperate with the occupation authorities and issued statements in support of the Kyiv government.
UPDATE2: It is now further reported that he refused to conduct a propaganda concert.
Kerpatenko, 46, was formerly conductor of the Mikolaj Kulish Theatre in Kherson.
We have the information of his death from two independent sources.
For neighbours in Kherson, this is just another everyday Russian war crime.
Please help to make it widely known so that justice can take its course.
Mr. Lebrecht this might be the moment for you to launch a funding campaign by which musicians would be able to help those who are remaining to get out and restart elsewhere.
This is simply devasting news and reminds one of similar atrocities committed 80 years ago.
I wish to express to those opposed to my comment that any musician like myself, who had a parent victim of a totalitarian regime realizes that our only power in the face of such horror is the generosity of solidarity toward our musical family.
If we refuse to help them we are negating the sacrifices made by our parents and grandparents in order to insure our well-being.
Where are the resident whataboutists? „You did not complain when Americans…..
Please complete your last sentence. Are you going to write that American soldiers deliberately and consciously pulled people out of their homes and murdered them as is happening in occupied Ukraine? If so, please cite the instances so I and other Americans can raise hell with the current Administration about that and seek some sort of reparations to those who were so killed as well as make it well known about previous Administrations and their complicity in such war crimes.
Sisko24: Put up the sound https://youtu.be/XB5pyzElIQI
Those soldiers they were firing on were not tucked up in bed in their own homes. A small but consequential distinction, I think.
https://slippedisc.com/2022/09/music-professor-is-killed-in-donbass/
Norman calls this a “collateral fatality” instead of a war crime. Whatever. Assuming his report is true, it is dreadful. This is what war does.
I wish to God the West would stop funding the Ukrainians and demand they come to the negotiation
table with Russia. Call me crazy but nuclear war is not at the top of my list.
What is there to ‘negotiate’ with a tyrant?
Hayne: Please give us your address so we can invade and occupy your home, steal your property and
abuse and maybe kill your family. Then we will enjoy your calls for negotiation instead of your calls for help from the police.
Nice violent “analogy.” Very convincing.
BTW, trust me. You won’t be invading my
house:)
“Negotiate” with a tyrant? What are you babbling about? Countries do it all the time.
Comrade H I have a simpler solution to your urgent plea for peace. Tell vp to withdraw immediately the troops he sent to conquer a sovereign country . Your cynical suggestion that the West is responsible for war crimes committed on behalf of the putin cabal is despicable.
Following your train of thoughts: Someone comes to your house. Takes over your kitchen and one of your bedrooms. Rapes your wife. Murders your children. Sets fire to your furniture. And now you think that your neighbours rather than helping you to kick the intruders out should demand from you to negotiate, so those criminals do not take over your living room, but just keep the kitchen and the bedroom? Ukrainians do not fear Putin and his Russian cohorts. The biggest threat to them are Putin’s “useful idiots” like yourself.
Mark, but the reality is, without the massive, manifold support of the west, just publicly very very short of joining the war as a direct party, Ukraine would already be occupied by Russia.
The question what is REALISTICALLY the possible endgame, is a legitimate one.
You seem to ask for the bloodiest solution. The American plan. A long agonizing battle, fighting until the last Ukrainian. It’s the “Fuck Russia and the EU” plan, a long term strategy by many in the US admin.
And Ukrainians do not fear the Russians? How come so many of their young men have defected to the west?
But go ahead, do the bidding of the US military complex. Until the last Ukrainian, and to a royally fucked up Europe.
Who is the useful idiot actually?
Good night.
To your last question, the answer is not is but are and for this thread, the answer is Comrade H and you are. Tools of the kremlin invaders.
You are so confused that any sane reply is unlikely to make sense to you. But one place to start is with your insane statement that Ukrainian men are “defecting”. They are not, it is the RUSSIAN men who are leaving Russia, more than a million of them, so they won’t be “mobilized” to be cannon fodder in a ground war that Russia is losing. Border crossing were clogged and backed up for miles as Russian men tried to flee Putin’s mobilization.
Without the United States of America, there would be NO Europe today. Some things are worth dieing for. Russia invaded. We support as we should.
Even a ‘tactical’ nuclear weapon won’t kill the 55 million who died in WW2. But I agree with the person who said, “there’s no such thing as a ‘tactical’ nuclear weapon’. This clown needs to be told, “you push the button and it’s instant mutual destruction, pal”. Trump would have said it but, Trump is not ‘an honourable man’.
Mark,
Your analogy is ridiculous. The medias’ propaganda is overwhelming but there are ways to find info about what’s really going on. I could send a lot of articles about Ukrainian atrocities but Norman won’t print them. I’m pretty sure your (and many others) mass formation hypnosis would refuse to look at it.
The majority of Russians are furious with Putin. You know why? Because he was too easy with the Ukrainians at the beginning. His response to the Ukrainian buildup in the east was limited, i.e. he left most of the infrastructure alone in most of Ukraine. He was hoping for negotiations but Boris Johnson and the west nixed it. Why aren’t any of you outraged? Because it doesn’t fit the narrative. The explosion on the Kerch bridge (with the help of the British SAS) changed everything. You may not like it but Crimea has been a part of Russia since 1783. Putin has taken the gloves off. All the missle strikes in Ukraine destroyed infrastructure (and also the headquarters of the SBU whom Ukrainians dread). The Russians are massing on the border and waiting for November to come and freeze the land. The Ukrainians have few men and weapons left. This will get truly ugly. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED BUT FOR THE WEST!
Hayne, go back and tell your handlers that you tried but nobody is buying your pseudo history and Russian-fascist disinformation. Ukraine and Ukrainians clearly have a history and identity apart from Russia. Ukrainians are not fighting for or on behalf of the West, they are fighting to protect their country from Putin’s fascist aggressions. And they are doing it so well that the Russian military is collapsing and Russian men are desperate to leave Russia.
And your constant disinformation on here, makes me want to throw up.
From your nice secure house in the west, I can assure you, those of us who have Russian family members, and have lived in (previously occupied) Eastern Europe, plus widely travelled in Russian and Ukraine, share none of your crappy so called Anal – ysis.
What we have here is Holodomor 11.
Your blurting can only be allowed on here, because of free speech.
Maybe you should have joined Yanu’s Berkut?
You would have felt at home.
Why yes, I have a very nice house thank you. I served in the military. Does that give me more cred? Why are you conflating Soviet Russia with modern Russia? Putin is an autocrat, not a socialist.
What are your thoughts on Zelensky’s new law he signed? You know, the “indigenous peoples” law which gives civil rights and fundamental freedoms only for Ukrainians of German or Scandanavian (as well for Tartars and Karaites) origins NOT Slavic origins. This is the first racial law passed in Europe in 77 years. How about September 1, 2020 where Zelensky signed into law that only the Ukrainian language be used for public administration and for all schools. Magyar and Russian language schools were shut down.
The Minsk agreement of 2015 was designed to give people in the Donbass region autonomy and protection while REMAINING within Ukraine territory. Ukraine and the international community ignored the Minsk agreement. The Donbass has voted twice to secede from Ukraine now. Seriously, can you blame them? Yeah, that’s right. They were ‘illegal’ votes.
Here’s a chuckle: Elon Musk had the effrontery recently to try and arrange for a peace. Ukraine ambassador Andrij Melnyk told him to “F**k off.” Diplomacy at its finest.
Let’s get serious. Why do you support neo-Nazis? Not a joke.
Why do you defend and support neo-fascists in russia? Oh I forgot because that is how you make a living. Not a joke!
Yes, this is all very true but we in the west have done business with the unelected autocrat Putin over the decades; bought his oil and gas and allowed Russia to flourish. Now, it’s “whoa: wait up”! Didn’t see this coming…!!!
As Condelezza Rice so succinctly put it in a recent interview: 1914. 1941. 2001. How well did appeasement work out? Remember Herr Hitler and “Peace in our time.” We use to say as kids growing up in Minnesota in the 50s: Better dead than Red.
I just wonder how the USA would feel if the people of Canada or Mexico invited the Russians to set up headquarters there. Just saying.
The paid “whataboutists” have probably fled Russia to avoid the second call-up for military duty…
Smashing down doors and gates and searching homes was a central part of the US military’s activity in Iraq.
Rules of engagement – according to Iraq veterans – were at times basically ‘you can shoot anything that moves after sunset’.
The hundreds of thousands of CIVILIAN dead in Iraq didn’t come from nothing and a restrained civilized US force. People are so delusional and ignorant.
I suspect that the vast majority of decent American people wouldn’t agree with your comments. They’d probably talk about ‘post 9/11 proportionality’. If I know anything at all about people.
How long is this going to last ?
Each day is bringing more and more shame for the Russians.
Ohh, I forgot…. “This is Putin’s war”.
Such a chilling turn of phrase in the words, “this is just another everyday Russian war crime”. In this conflict such things appear everyday, if reporting is to be believed, and more often Russian than not.
Awful. But still not a justification for banning Russian music and musicians.
we have just returned from a wonderful concert of Ukrainian National Orchestra(Kiev), hold in Warsaw Philharmonic Hall-tomorrow they will play in Katowice Music Academy Hall..
Great concert,however it was hard not to think about all Ukrainians IN Ukraina fighting the opressors..
They play on the highest possible level (Berezowski and Stankowycz, plus talented young violinist playing Sibelius)..
Until now I dont think they heard about this horrible news from Charkow…
Filharmonika
I’m a little confused – can someone help please?
Article 24 of the UN Charter stipulates that the Security Council, the supreme authority, is charged with maintenance of ‘international peace and security’.
According to my research, since the establishment of the UN there have been at least 59 wars. What has the UN done about them? They have passed resolutions.
What about the Security Council? How have they maintained international peace and security? Let’s see who they are.
There are five permanent members: Russia, China, the USA, France and Britain. There are ten other rotating places for other nations. That makes fifteen members at any time. It’s all entirely democratic of course – every member country, however mighty or minuscule, has one vote. Oh, by the way, to underpin the strictly democratic process, each permanent member has a veto on anything that the others do.
So let’s look at these permanent members. First, the USA. They have done their part in maintaining peace and security by going to war in Korea, Vietnam and Panama, at the very least.
China has helped to maintain peace and security by taking over Tibet (claiming it to be their territory) and threatening Taiwan. Oh, by the way, the very same Taiwan was expelled from the UN. Why? Did they threaten anyone? No. They were expelled because China would not join the UN while Taiwan was a member; it was deemed more important to admit oppressive China to the UN and Security Council than peaceable littleTaiwan so Taiwan had to be expelled.
Now look at Britain. There weren’t many places they could go to war against because most countries would beat them – but they did join other people’s wars – they helped the Americans lose the Korean and Vietnam Wars and had their very own war against Argentina in 1982. That was their contribution to maintaining peace and security.
Next, France. Like Britain, going to war anywhere is a risky venture without a huge supply of white flags just in case anyone fought back. But they did fight a war in Algeria, and lost. Another major contribution was the sinking of the unarmed Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace boat. They won that engagement. The French Defence Minister resigned. I have no idea why; his agents had successfully defended France against attack from this boat, berthed off New Zealand and an obvious threat to France’s integrity. Vive La France.
Now let’s look at Russia. Their efforts to maintain peace and security are most interesting as they have outdone all the efforts of the above-named. They enslaved multiple nations at the end of WWII. In 1956, they sent their troops into Hungary; in 1968 they did the same to Czechoslovakia; in 1979 they invaded Afghanistan and later they went to war with Chechnya. These latter two interventions were essentially failures. They twice used chemical warfare in Britain too. We promptly struck back with strongly worded letters. That taught them a lesson.
This year, having earlier taken over Crimea, Russia, to maintain peace and security, went to war with Ukraine. Their murderous campaign was entirely unprovoked by any military threat to Russia. Wanting to join NATO is no excuse whatsoever. Wanting anything is no excuse.
Notwithstanding the rights or wrongs of these military incursions by the Security Council permanent members, if they keep starting or joining wars, what can we expect the other members to do?
Finally, in 1974 South Africa was suspended from the UN because of its apartheid policy. Quite right in my own opinion. Appalling as apartheid is though, is it worse than China’s oppression of its own people, including the Tianamen Square massacre, or Russia’s murderous ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine? Should both these countries not be expelled too? But they can’t be, of course, because both can veto anything the rest of the UN votes for.
Can you understand why I am confused?
What would have happened if the Security Council had been charged with promoting war? If they were as successful in that role as they have been in promoting peace and security, then we would be living in permanent peace and security.
I wouldn’t go as far as to brand the UN an ineffective talking shop; after all, it does so much for refugees, most of whom were created by its own impotence.
You forgot China’s oppression Uighur Muslims. I think that’s worth an explicit mention.
The UN. Good grief.
Horrible! I pray for Kyiv!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9JpKXBw5Z4
There, there. They are just as good at killing violin players or cancer surgeons. In fact, just anybody. Nothing personal against conductors, just business as usual.
russians has murdered dozens or even hundreds of cultural figures since they started this war.
XXct: Great terror against Ukrainians , Executed Renaissance, Persecuted kobzars and bandurists etc.
XXI ct : War, mass civil tortures and killings in Ukraine, Mariupol theatre airstrike…
russia – never changes.
Nazi practices!!
The Theatre in Kherson bears the name of Mykola Kulish, not Mikolaj.
Grief unlimited.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/putin-plays-like-the-nazis-with-murder-of-conductor-in-ukraine/