Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces have regained control of more than 60 sites in Kherson following the withdrawal of the Russian army from that southern region of the country.
“Since tonight, the armed forces have regained control in more than 60 locations in the Kherson region and the police have started taking stabilization measures,” the Ukrainian president assured in his usual nightly speech on social media.
Zelensky added that bomb disposal specialists have “a lot of work to do” in this area, bearing in mind that nearly 2,000 explosives, including mines, booby traps and unexploded ordnance, have already been removed.
He also added that there are ten groups of experts in defusing explosives working in the region, along with the police and various units of the armed forces.
“Before fleeing Kherson, the Russians destroyed all critical infrastructure: communications, water supply, heating and electricity,” the president of Ukraine lamented.
Volodymyr Zelensky also thanked the defense and intelligence services “for the brilliant work of Kherson’s liberation tasks”, adding that “they will do the same in Henichesk and Melitopol”.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has already caused more than 13 million people to flee – more than six million internally displaced and more than 7.8 million to European countries – according to the latest UN data, classifying this refugee crisis. as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russian security – was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and Russia political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented 6,490 civilian deaths and 9,972 wounded as confirmed since the start of the war, underlining that these numbers are far below the actual ones.
Source: DN
