Save Your Lives Russia Tells Kherson Civilians as battle looms
Russia has urged people in occupied Kherson to flee with their lives before expected pressure to retake the southern Ukrainian city.
Due to a sharp increase in the number of people wanting to leave the city, officials at one point on Sunday reported a lack of boats for people to cross the river.
“The situation today is difficult,” Russian Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov said in a video message. “It’s important to save your life. It won’t last long. You have to return.”
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Russian-established authorities in southern Ukraine are trying to evacuate 60,000 people living on the west bank of the Dnipro River.
Kirill Stremasov, deputy head of the Russian-occupied territory, said that about 25,000 people have been evacuated since Tuesday.
“We again advise you to leave the city and the west bank of Dnipro,” Stremasov said in a video message posted on Telegram. “We are not going to leave Kherson.”
He also said that an improvised explosive device killed one person and injured another on Sunday.
More residents of Kherson packed their belongings and boarded boats or school buses to leave the city.
“Of course we fear for our lives,” said 44-year-old Vera, who did not give her last name. “But I think everything will be fine. Kherson will hold on.”
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Ukrainian and Western authorities have expressed concerns about possible forced relocation of residents to Russia or the Russian-occupied territories.
Kyiv urged residents of Kherson to resist their evacuation efforts. A local official alleged that Moscow wanted to take civilians hostage and use them as human shields.
In September, Ukraine launched its own counter-offensive to retake northern Kherson.
The Kherson region is in the north of the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. It is strategically important to Russian forces as it is a gateway for military supplies.
Russia occupied the regional capital Kherson at the beginning of the war and occupied other parts in the following months.
Kherson is one of four regions that President Vladimir Putin illegally occupied last month. On Thursday, he declared martial law in the regions as Ukrainian forces continued their counter-offensive.
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Ukraine’s progress in recent weeks in Kherson and the country’s northeast has been linked with Russian missiles and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure, which destroyed nearly 40 percent of Ukraine’s power system before winter.
As the ninth month of war began and winter was fast approaching, the prospects of misery loomed large.
Presidential adviser Kirill Tymoshenko said more than a million people were without power. An official in Kyiv said the attack could leave the Ukrainian capital without electricity and heat for days or weeks.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank, said on Sunday that Russia’s latest strategy to target power plants is aimed at undermining Ukrainians’ willingness to fight and the government in Kyiv for civil and energy security. Forced to dedicate more resources. basic infrastructure.
It said the effort was unlikely to hurt Ukraine’s morale, but would have significant economic implications.
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Save Your Lives Russia Tells Kherson Civilians as battle looms
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