President Volodimir Zelensky’s adviser reacted to statements by politicians in Moscow who threatened the Ukrainian city want to explain russian.
“Russia is here forever,” Andrei Turchak of Putin’s United Russia party said during a visit to Kherson earlier this week. Russian passports are to be issued in the city and the ruble, the Russian currency, will be the sole means of payment.
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Such steps have previously been taken in the pro-Russian separatists’ self-declared people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine.
Before the Russian occupation, Kherson, which lies at the mouth of the Dnieper River, had about 290,000 inhabitants. There are regular protests in the city against the occupiers.
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