Zelensky Says Russia shelled Kherson region 258 times in a week
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Russian troops had destroyed a pumping station supplying water to the city of Mykolaiv, northwest of Kherson.
Russian troops shelled 30 of his settlements in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region last week, he said 258 times, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
Russian troops withdrew from the west bank of the Dnipro earlier this month, but from a new perspective on the opposite bank, they are shelling towns and villages, including the city of Kherson.
In his nightly video speech, Zelensky also said Russian forces had destroyed a pumping station supplying water to the city of Mykolaiv, northwest of Kherson.
A Ukrainian resident moving a cross on Monday is helping a team of police, forensic experts and war crimes prosecutors to exhume a burial ground containing the bodies of six civilians in the garden of a house on the outskirts of Kherson. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian forces have opened fire 258 times at 30 settlements in the region over the past week.
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“What they are doing now against Ukraine is trying to get their revenge,” Zelensky said in his speech. “To take revenge on the fact that Ukrainians have repeatedly defended themselves against them.”
According to a report in the Kyiv Independent newspaper, Kherson City Council killed 15 of his 15 people, including one child, due to the shelling of Russian troops in the city between 20 November and 25 November. said to have died. The region’s capital, Kherson, was liberated on 11 November after falling under Russian occupation in early March.
Ukrainian forces have launched a series of successful counteroffensives over the past few months, liberating nearly half of the Russian-occupied territories seized since the start of the war.
Russian forces still hold illegally annexed territories in southeastern Ukraine and strategic positions along the Black Sea on the Kinburn Spit.
The Ukrainian Army’s Southern Operations Command said on its Facebook page on Monday that Russia, in addition to firing at settlements, “misinformed” that Ukrainian citizens in newly liberated territories were “cooperating with the occupiers.” reported to be spreading The result is detained by the Ukrainian army.
According to the post, the Russian military is trying to shift responsibility for the shelling of civilians to the Ukrainian military.
Zelensky had previously promised Ukraine would retake all lands it had occupied, including Crimea, which it illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The Russian army has lost up to 70 people, according to an update by the Ukrainian Armed Forces Chief of Staff on Monday. Percentage of troops in the Luhansk region occupied last week from the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“Ukraine will never be a place of devastation,” Zelensky added in his speech. “Ukraine will never accept orders from its Moscow comrades.
Zelensky Says Russia shelled Kherson region 258 times in a week
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