The Russian-installed head of Ukraine’s south Kherson area, Vladimir Saldo, has asked civilians to leave and flee the area, citing daily rocket attacks from advance Ukrainian force.
Latest Ukraine news : He encouraged the students to “save themselves” by traveling to Russia to enjoy “leisure and to study” and asked Moscow’s help.
The call was later followed up Russian Vice-Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin’s message broadcast on state television.
Ukraine is denying claims that it is targeting its civilians.
The army has recently taken over a few areas of the northwestern region of Kherson as they converge on the capital city of the region, Kherson city.
“The government has taken the decision to arrange assistance for the relocation of people from the Kherson region to other regions within this country.” explained Mr Khusnullin who is the person responsible for the southern region of Russia as well as Crimea.
The first batch of people from Kherson will arrive on Friday, in the Russian Rostov region, as per Rostov governor Vasily Golubev. According to Russian state-run news agency Tass.
“The Rostov region will accept and accommodate anyone who would like to relocate to our region coming from Kherson region,” he said. Kherson region.” the official added.
Kyiv has utilized the US supplied Himars rocket systems, among other weapons, to amazing impact.
It has targeted Russian-controlled forces and threatens to cut off the majority of the troops occupying the western bank of Dnieper River (known by the name of Dnipro within Ukraine).
Kherson is the sole city in the region that has been seized in the region by Russian military since Russia’s incursion began on February 24.
Ukraine’s military has been reticent about troop movements in the crucial region that shares a border with Crimea The southern Ukrainian peninsula that was annexed by Moscow in 2014.
In other developments of a major nature on Thursday:
- The entire region of Ukraine including Crimea – with the exception of Crimea The entire country was for a period of period of time under an air raid alert and Russian rocket strikes were identified on military and energy target areas such as the Kyiv region as well as Lviv in west
- 2 people died by bombings in the southern city of Mykolaiv and a dramatic video showed a boy being pulled out of the rubble of a demolished home, even though the boy later passed away, authorities confirmed.
- Each Kyiv as well as Moscow verified that 20 Ukrainian personnel from the military were exchanged to 20 Russian soldiers in the latest exchange.
- Russia has accused Ukraine of striking a residence building in Belgorod, a Russian frontier city Belgorod
- Russian president Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the possibility of building an energy center within Turkey in order to create an alternative source of gas to Europe in the wake of problems in the Nord Stream pipelines
- Nato has announced it will supply Ukraine with a variety of jammers, transmitters that are used for disrupting signals – in order to deter Russian as well as Iranian drones. The military head of the group, Jens Stoltenberg, also stated that the members had agreement to strengthen the security of crucial infrastructure following “sabotage” of the Nord Stream pipelines “sabotage” in one of the Nord Stream pipelines
