Kherson is being evacuated: At least 15,000 people have been evacuated

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Moscow has announced the process of evacuating the region – Kyiv is talking about the displacement of residents

The Russian occupation administration in the Kherson region in the south Ukraine announced today that 15,000 people have been evacuated from this region unilaterally annexed by Moscow, ahead of the advance of Ukrainian military forces.

“The peaceful removal of residents of the Hersona region continues”the Russian-appointed deputy governor of Kherson Kirill Stremusov said in Telegram.

He clarified that they the 15,000 people they fled to the left bank of the Dnieper river, which borders on Chersona.

The Russian occupation administration in Kherson announced the start of the evacuation of civilians on Wednesday, with Kyiv denouncing a “displacement” of civilians to Russia.

“Trust me, everything will be fine. Kherson region has already been freed forever from Nazism”Stremusov added, assuring that the Ukrainian regions of Dnipro, Odesa and Mykolayiv would be liberated “soon”.

The previous day, its occupation administration Peninsula announced that it is also evacuating the city to the left bank of the Dnieper, as the Ukrainian military seeks to launch a large-scale offensive in the region.

Yesterday Wednesday, the Russian president Vladimir Putin declared martial law in the Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Lugansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia, which were annexed by Moscow in September, but which the Russian military does not fully control.

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