The city of Kherson will soon be returned under Russia’s control, Acting Governor of the Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo said on Saturday.
According to Saldo, it will happen very soon.
"People ask me, ‘What do you think about Kherson?’ I have one thing in mind that in the near future, very soon, Kherson will again be part of the Kherson Region within the Russian Federation," Saldo told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar for regional headquarters of volunteers of the We Are Together campaign.
Saldo emphasized that Kherson had been left temporarily and praised the Russian People’s Front for the city’s evacuation.
"A large-scale operation was organized to evacuate residents," he said. "Almost 150,000 residents of Kherson and people living on the right bank [of the Dnieper River] were relocated to the left bank," he said.
On October 18, 2022, Saldo said civilians living on the western bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson Region would be evacuated to the eastern bank amid the risk of flooding in the event that Ukrainian forces attack the Kakhovka hydro power plant. On October 31, Saldo said that the evacuation area would be expanded by 15 km along the eastern bank of the Dnieper in the region.
LPR head says situation near Kremennaya, Svatovo very difficult
The situation near Kremennaya and Svatovo is very difficult along the line of engagement due to Ukrainian shelling, Leonid Pasechnik, acting head of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), said on Saturday.
"As for Kremennaya and Svatovo, this is a very complicated situation. They are close to the contact line and the difficulty is that all types of ammunition [the Ukrainian armed forces] have are reaching [them] due to that proximity. And the enemy takes advantage of this," he told reporters on the sidelines of a workshop for regional headquarters of the volunteers from the We Are Together movement.
On February 8, LPR People’s Militia retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko told TASS that Russian forces had been occupying more advantageous positions near Svatovo and Kremennaya which would enable them to deliver targeted attacks on Ukrainian manpower and hardware.
Earlier, Rodion Miroshnik, the LPR’s former ambassador to Moscow, told TASS that more than a half of residents of Kremennaya had been evacuated due to never-stopping shelling attacks by Ukrainian troops. He added that key social institutions of Kremennaya and Svatovo had also been evacuated over hostilities.
The Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs
📹 Russian Buk-M2 air defense system crews protecting the air from enemy airpower (video by Russia's MoD)
One target is usually neutralized by one missile. Exceptions occur regarding large and high-speed targets like Tochka-U missiles.
This system has destroyed a large number of the Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs in the beginning of the special military operation. The Buk-M2 efficiently neutralizes projectiles launched by HIMARS or other multiple-launch rocket systems.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports:
▪️ in the Kupyansk direction, as a result of the offensive actions of the "Western" group of troops, the settlement of Gryanikovka, Kharkiv region, was completely liberated;
▪️ in the Donetsk direction, the offensive of the units of the "Southern" group of troops continued;
▪️ enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 80 military; in the Donetsk direction, up to 150 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed per day; In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, enemy losses exceeded 50 servicemen killed and wounded; up to 20 enemy military were destroyed in the Kherson direction;
▪️ in the districts of Avdiivka and Krasnogorovka of the DPR, three warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons of the enemy were destroyed; in the area of Ugledar, the ammunition depot of the 72nd mechanized brigade was destroyed.
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