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Russian and Ukrainian troops prepare for a great battle in Kherson. Photo / Illustration / Sindonews
Quoted by APOn Friday (10/21/2022), fighting and evacuations were reported in the Kherson region as Moscow sought to subdue the invaded country with more missiles and drones over critical infrastructure.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said Ukrainian forces carried out 15 attacks on Russian military strongholds in the Kherson region. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Russian defense ministry said Kremlin forces were repelling Ukrainian attempts to advance with tanks into the villages of Sukhanove, Nova Kamianka and Chervonyi Yar.
A Russian official in the region, Vladimir Leontyev, said Ukrainian forces have launched five missile attacks against the Kakhovka dam and a hydroelectric power station some 70 km from the city of Kherson. He told Russian TV that if the facility was destroyed, the important channel that supplied water to the annexed Crimea would be cut off.
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Zelenskyy retorted that Russia had attacked the dam and power plant, intending to blow them up in what he called an act of terrorism to release 18 million cubic meters of water and flood Kherson and dozens of areas where they live. hundreds of thousands of people. He told the European Council that Russia would later blame Ukraine.
None of these claims can be independently verified.
The new Russian military commander in Ukraine this week acknowledged the threat posed by a Ukrainian retaliatory strike in Kherson and the British Defense Ministry interpreted: “Russian authorities are seriously considering a major withdrawal of their troops from areas west of the river. Dnepr “.
The city of Kherson, with a pre-war population of around 284,000, was one of the first urban areas that Russia conquered when it invaded Ukraine and remains the largest city it has.
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