Pro-Russian officials in the Ukraine region hersonannexed by Russia in early October Evacuation of 50,000 to 60,000 people Starting this Wednesday, the state’s deputy governor, Vladimir Saldo, urged the public to leave the city the day before.
“We are making the calculation and plan to move about 50,000 to 60,000 people to the left bank of the Dnieper River,” Saldo said on Russian state television on Wednesday. Said. According to the pro-Russian governor Evacuation will take about a week.
City Administration already sent it this Wednesday SMS messages to local people with evacuation call due to danger of Ukraine attacks against the districts of the regional capital and information about the place of departure of buses.
Saldo also said that the Ukrainian Army can destroy the locks of the Nueva Kajovka hydroelectric power station, so “in some places the water level may rise by a meter, so people must be removed from there faster.”
This Tuesday, Saldo made a call on his Telegram channel in the afternoon to local residents to leave the four municipalities on the right bank of Kherson in the face of a possible Ukrainian attack on the city. “hard but i made the right decision Announcement of the organized transfer of the population of the municipalities of Bersilav, Belozersk, Snigirovsk and Alexandrovsk to the right bank of the Dnieper.
Saldo said this is because the Russian Army will set up fortifications “to repel any attack.” “There is no place for civilians where the military works. Let the Russian Army do its job,” he said.
The deputy governor stated that the evacuation would “be organized gradually and free of charge”. I ask everyone to remain calm and not listen to those who incite panic, the Kherson region is under the safe protection of the Russian Army.
russian general Sergey Surovikin, the commander of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, admitted that the situation was “difficult”. in this region. “It’s pretty complicated today,” he said. “We will act consciously, in a timely manner, and we will not exclude difficult decisions,” he said in his initial statements after assuming the highest command of Russian troops in Ukraine.
In addition, he said the Ukrainian Army “deliberately attacked infrastructure and housing targets” in the city of Kherson and denounced damage to access to the Dnieper, which “obstructed the food supply”.
“The NATO command, which heads the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has long been demanding offensive operations in the Kherson direction from the Kyiv regime, without considering the cost of living among the soldiers of the Ukrainian Army or the civilian population,” he said.
Said it was Surovikin Information on the use of “prohibited methods of warfare against the city of Kherson by the Kyiv regime”warned of the danger of a missile attack on the Kajovka hydroelectric power station or indiscriminate bombing of the city. Noting that the main task of the Russian Army is to protect the life and health of the civilian population, he warned, “These actions could lead to the destruction of the infrastructure of an important industrial center and the large number of civilian casualties.”
To this end, he added: First of all, Russian forces will ensure the “pre-announced safe exit” Kherson’s population
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Jusnulin said last week after Saldo’s appeal to Russian authorities to support the mass evacuation of civilians from Kherson: Russian government to offer refugees free housing.
Later, the Russian Government approved the issuance of certificates that would allow refugees to acquire housing anywhere in Russia.