Russia Trumpets Evacuations in South Ukraine
Russia “Ghosts” Kherson Amid Dirty Bomb Claims
Are Putin men setting a trap for Ukraine ?
Kherson which serves as a gateway to annexed Crimean peninsula now stand ghosted . The south Ukrainian region was seized days after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine .
Bisected by Dniper river it came first Ukrainian region to be fully occupied by Russia but for days Russia has been trumpeting the evacuations of civilians from Kherson .
This after Ukrainian forces retook dozens of villages and towns on the west bank and struck brigades across to the Dnipper and depots with surgical precision .
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However Moscow officials reason for the retreat is a claim that Ukraine is planning to bomb the Nova Kakhivka Dam ti flood the region . Kyiv rejects the allegation .
So for the past 10 days Russian officials in Kherson have been urging civilians living on the west bank leave for Crimea and mainland Russia .They claimed that 70,000 civilians evacuated voluntarily and that they will be issued certificates for free housing anywhere in Russia .
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But as per Ukraine president Volodymir Zelensky Russia is setting a trap in Kherson . He told in Italian newspaper that Russia was only creating an illusion of panic .Zelensky their best-trained troops are in place nobody left we don’t believe them .
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Satellites photos show fortifications in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka the town next to the dam and hydropower station built by Russian . Ihor Romanenko , former deputy chief of Ukraine general staff of armed force said Russia was strengthening their grouping on Dnieper River right and left bank.Russian grouping is even getting reading for a possible counter attack .( As Per Al Jazeera Report)
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