The civilian population of four cities in Kherson County will be evacuated away from the Dnipro River areas. This was decided by the Russian leadership in the occupied area.
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They call it an “organized movement”.
According to Reuters, the background to the move is fear of an attack by Ukrainian forces.
Already last week Alerted both British secret services and the one Russian leader of Kherson detained that there could be a danger of street fighting in Kherson.
Then the leader, Vladimir Saldo, announced that he would ask Russia to evacuate the local population.
In Mosvka24 He says the pro-Russian deputy commander of Kherson, Kiril Stremousov, who demands that the evacuation take place quickly.
– The battle for Kherson will begin shortly. Civilians are advised, if possible, to leave the area where heavy fighting will take place.
Kherson is one of the four regions of Ukraine that has recently become attachedAnnexation means trying to conquer a territory and claim it as one’s own. from Russia and the regional capital Kherson was the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces after the February invasion.
– Russia will above all ensure a safe evacuation of the inhabitants of Kherson, General Sergei Surovikin told Russian television channel Rossiya 24 on Tuesday evening.
Surovikin also admits that the situation for Russian forces in Ukraine is “tense” after the Russians suffered a series of defeats in the face of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
Earlier this month, Surovikin was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the war in Ukraine.
The fight for Kherson has been going on for weeks, but the Ukrainian authorities have not talked about the city in recent days. There is a reason for this, according to British military professor Michael Clarke.
– It means something big is going on, he adds News from heaven. They have always done this in the past before a major offensive was underway. I think within 58-72 hours they will let us know what’s going on.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted this the reason for the decision on mobilizing more people for the military was that they struggled to keep the front line:
– It is impossible to keep the front line using only contract officers, that’s why we announced the mobilization, Putin said during a press conference in Astana in Kazakhstan on the occasion of a summit.
Ukraine has conducted an offensive in Kherson, but according to experts, Ukraine prefers to avoid an urban war in Kherson. The city had a population of 283,000 before the war.
British intelligence he wrote in his status update on Thursday of last week that local authorities are likely preparing for the evacuation, which suggests it could be headed for urban warfare.
