Pro-Kremlin officials said they were pulling out of the key southern Ukraine city of Kherson yesterday, as Kyiv’s forces advanced on territory in Russian hands.
Kyiv’s recapturing of swathes of its territory in the east and parts of the south has, however, been followed by missile and drone strikes that have demolished large parts of Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter.
“The entire administration is already moving today,” to the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, said the Kherson region’s Moscow-installed head, Vladimir Saldo.
But the Ukrainian presidency’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of “trying to scare the people of Kherson”. Ukrainian forces “do not fire at Ukrainian cities”, Yermak said.
Saldo said the pull-out, along with the organised movement of civilians from the city, was a precaution…
