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Evacuation of civilians from occupied Kherson region complete, pro-Russian authorities say

“The work organizing the departure of the inhabitants of the left bank of the [fleuve] Dnieper to safe regions in Russia is completed »said Thursday evening Sergei Aksionov, the leader of Crimea, a neighboring peninsula of Kherson, annexed in 2014 by Moscow. “I am happy that everyone was able to quickly and safely leave the area shelled by the Ukrainian armed forces. » On Wednesday, a Russian occupation official in Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, claimed that at least 70,000 residents had left their homes in the area in less than a week. The city had some 288,000 pre-war inhabitants. It has been occupied since the early days of the Russian invasion.

Mr Aksionov also visited the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant accompanied by Sergueï Kirienko, the deputy director of the Russian presidential administration.

The Ukrainian military command noted in its daily report over the last twenty-four hours published on Friday that “the so-called “evacuation” of the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region continues”. kyiv says of these population transfers that they are “deportations”. He noted a “reinforcement of the enemy group on the part of the right bank” of the Kherson region.

According to British Ministry of Defensethe Russians have “reinforced some of their units west of the Dnieper River with mobilized reservists”. These units which “establish defensive positions”as on the entire forehead, are composed of “companies made up of a handful of men [au lieu d’une centaine] ».


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