Balance: “Russia does not abandon its people”
The head of the Russian-backed administration in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine has launched an “appeal” to the Kremlin with a request to organize the transfer of civilians from the area amid the counter-offensive of Ukrainian forces. He is reported by CNN, while the number two of the military administration refuses to talk about the “evacuation” of the population from the area and calls for “calm”.
“Every day the cities of the Kherson region are the target of missile attacks: Kherson and Novaya Kakhovka, Golaya Pristan and Chernobaevka,” said Vladimir Saldo, head of what is one of the four regions annexed by Russia at the end of September. According to Saldo, the “missile attacks” cause “serious damage, first of all, to the local population” since “hotels, residential buildings, markets” are hit. Thus the Kherson authorities have “decided to organize the possibility” for the “Kherson families” to transfer “to other regions of the Russian Federation”, he said via Telegram, with an “appeal” to the Russian leadership to “help organize ” the operations. “We inhabitants of the Kherson region – he said – know that Russia does not abandon its people.”
But Kirill Stremousov, number two of the military administration of the region, claims “there are no evacuations of the population from the Kherson region” and the request of Saldo “to help organize the departure of the inhabitants of Kherson for a temporary stay and rest. in other regions of the Russian Federation there is no request for evacuation “from the area. “We invite the inhabitants of the Kherson region to remain calm – he said he – No one is going to withdraw Russian troops from the Kherson region”.
Source-www.adnkronos.com