Kyiv: Russian forces have taken the city of Kherson Ukraine, local official confirmed, the first major urban center that fell since Moscow invaded a week ago “The invaders (Russia) are in all parts of the city and are very dangerous,” Gennady Lakhuta, head of regional government, wrote about telegram message services at the end of Wednesday.
The Mayor of the 290,000 port city, Igor Kolykhaiev, announced a discussion with “armed guests” in the administration of Kherson City “We have no weapons and are not aggressive. We show that we work to secure the city and try to deal with the consequences of the invasion,” he wrote on Facebook.
“We have great difficulties with the collections and burials of dead people, food delivery and medicines, garbage collections, accident management, etc.,” he continued Kolykhaiev said that he had “not promised” to attackers but asked them to “not shoot people”, while also announcing hours of night in the city and restrictions on car traffic.
“So far it’s good. The flag that flies above us is Ukraine. And to remain like that, this requirement must be fulfilled,” he added The Russian army announced Kherson’s confiscation, which was located not far from the Crimean Peninsula who was annexed in 2014 by Moscow, on Wednesday morning.
The Black Sea City was under siege when Russian forces pressed forward with their attacks in other urban centers The main port of Ukraine, liataining, has been confiscated by Russian forces, while Mariupol has expelled the attack “with dignity,” according to the city mayor, Vadym Boychenko.
“Today is the most difficult day and CRU trained in a seven-day war. Today they just want to destroy all of us,” he said in the video in the Telegram, accusing the Russian shooting forces in the housing building Boychenko said infrastructure was damaged in the attack, leaving people without light, water or warming up.
Russian forces have also bombarded the second largest city of Ukraine’s Kharkiv, in an attack that has driven the comparison to the massacre of civilians in Sarajevo in the 1990s After a day of intense battles, hundreds of civilians have been killed, while around one million people have fled from Ukraine since the invasion begins, triggers punishing western sanctions intended to paralyze the Russian economy.