Occupying authorities of Kherson ask to evacuate civilians before Ukrainian counteroffensive: “Take your children and leave”

The Russian occupation authorities of the Kherson region in southern Ukraineasked Moscow on Thursday to evacuate civilians from that territory annexed by Russia at the end of September and the target of a counteroffensive by the Ukrainian army.

“We ask that all the inhabitants of the region of Khersonwho want to protect themselves from (Ukrainian) missiles, can go to other regions” Russians, said on Telegram the head of the regional occupation administration, Vladimir Balance.

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“Take your children and go”, he exhorted in a speech broadcast on social networks.

balance requested Russia to provide the necessary “help” “to organize such a task”, and stated that he had proposed that, “first of all” the evacuation of the inhabitants of the towns located on the banks of the Dnipro River, closest to the front line.

Those residents will be taken to the Russian regions closest to the Khersonhe said, citing the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014 by Moscow, and the Rostov, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions in southern Russia.

The announcement came a day after Ukraine claimed to have retaken five towns in the region of Kherson.

For several weeks, the Ukrainian army has been carrying out a counteroffensive in that territory in southern Ukraine, annexed by Moscow and from which the kyiv troops claimed to have retaken more than 400 square kilometers in less than a week.

“Every day, the cities of the region of Kherson they are subjected to missile bombardment,” Saldo said Thursday. “These bombings cause serious damage, to the inhabitants in the first place,” he lamented.

Source: Elcomercio

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