The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine said that his troops in the country’s south were facing “a rather difficult” situation after a Ukrainian counteroffensive pushed them back and threatened their supply lines.
Putin announced the imposition of martial law in Kherson and the three other annexed areas at a meeting of his Security Council on Wednesday. The move will give more power to local officials over the occupied populace, but it’s unclear what impact that will have as battlefield setbacks and rareUkrainian soldiers patrol a village in the southern Kherson region earlier this month.
“The Ukrainian side is building up forces for a large-scale offensive,” the head of the Moscow-appointed regional administration, Vladimir Saldo, said Tuesday in a message on the Telegram messaging app, urging his fellow residents to leave as he said Russian forces were erecting defenses. His deputy, Kirill Stremousov, was more direct, saying in a separate message on Telegram: “In the very near future, the battle for Kherson will begin.” No one is planning to surrender the city, he added, as he urged residents to take the warnings seriously and not get “in the way” of the Russian military as it digs in.Tass reported, as
with urgent reminders were sent out to residents, and Saldo said there would be no entry to the right bank of the Dnieper River for at least seven days.“Reality can hurt if you live in a fictional fantasy world,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a tweet. Local Ukrainian officials urged people to ignore evacuation calls, arguing that the Russians “want to take our people hostage and use them as human shields.”
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