![]() In Kherson, Stremousov said the city, especially its right bank, could be shelled by Ukrainian forces, adding that residents who left would be given accommodation inside Russia. In recent days, Ukrainian cities have also been struck by drones and missiles, and Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor, said the capital’s air defences were in action again on Wednesday. The conflict has killed thousands, displaced millions, pulverised Ukrainian cities, shaken the global economy and revived Cold War-era geopolitical fissures. The city is on territory that Putin says is now formally incorporated into Russia, a move Ukraine and the West do not recognise. Kherson is the biggest population centre Moscow has seized and held since it began its war in Ukraine on 24 February. “The Russians are trying to scare the people of Kherson with fake newsletters about the shelling of the city by our army and also arrange a propaganda show with evacuation,” Yermak wrote on the Telegram messaging app.Įight months after being invaded, Ukraine is prosecuting major counter-offensives in the east and south to try to take as much territory as it can before winter after routing Russian forces in some areas. Putin also issued a decree restricting movement in and out of eight regions adjoining Ukraine.Īndriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, accused Russia of laying on a propaganda show in Kherson. In a move which looked designed to help Russia firm its grip on four Ukrainian regions it partly occupies and seeks to fully control – including the Kherson region – Putin told his Security Council he was introducing martial law in them.īeyond much tighter security measures on the ground, it was unclear what the immediate impact would be. They risk being pinned against the western bank of the 2,200-km (1367 miles) -long Dnipro river that bisects Ukraine. Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the local Russia-backed administration, made a video appeal after Russian forces in the area were driven back by 20-30 km (13-20 miles) in the last few weeks. Russian state TV broadcast the images of people fleeing Kherson, which portrayed the exodus – from the right bank of the Rover Dnipro to its left bank – as an attempt to clear the city of civilians before it became a combat zone. President Vladimir Putin introduced martial law on Wednesday (19 October) in four Ukrainian regions he says are part of Russia as some residents of the Russian-occupied city of Kherson left by boat after Moscow warned of a looming assault.
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