Pro-Russian authorities in the region show lack of coordination with Kremlin
The deputy head of the pro-Russian regional administration of Kherson annexed to Russia, Kirill Stremoúsov, yesterday announced an imminent withdrawal of Russian troops from all over the region, including the capital, located on the right bank of the river. the Dnieper. Today, however, Stremousov said in a video broadcast on his Telegram channel that the city of Kherson will be “defended by Russian troops”.
At the same time, the pro-Russian leader assured that the occupation forces in Kherson have imposed a permanent “curfew” 24 hours a day. Shortly afterwards, however, the part of the footage related to the curfew was cut, showing that a turnaround has taken place and that there is a certain lack of coordination between Kherson’s puppet government and the Russian command of the military operation. As he later explained, “there are absolutely no restrictions limiting the life of the city.”
What Stremousov did do, in line with what Russian President Vladimir Putin had recently stated from Moscow, was to strongly reiterate the call to the civilian population of Kherson to leave the city as quickly as possible towards the left bank of the Dnieper. to “let the Russian army do its job”. Obviously, in a curfew situation, it would be impossible to organize an evacuation.
“Terrorist attacks are possible, provocations too (…) we must give the army the opportunity to continue denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine,” said the number two of the pro-Russian government. Today in Red Square, on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of People’s Unity and in front of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, heroes of the expulsion of Poles and Lithuanians from Russian soil at the beginning of the 17th century, Putin said that “On this At the moment, the residents of Kherson must be evacuated from the most dangerous areas. The civilian population must not be affected by bombings, offensives, counter-attacks or other situations related to military operations.”
Coincidentally, Moscow-installed Kherson leader Vladimir Saldo ended the evacuation of civilians on October 28. He then reported the departure of 70,000 people. For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the evacuation of “5,000 civilians every day to the left bank of the Dnieper.”
However, Stremoúsov acknowledged yesterday that the streets of Kherson are “very busy”, while Seguéi Jlan, adviser to the head of the Kiev regional military administration in Kherson, claimed days earlier that “the majority of residents are still in the city. awaiting the arrival of Ukrainian troops, as Stremoúsov pointed out in his video this Friday, “there are Ukrainian troops and armored vehicles in the vicinity with the apparent intent to attack.”
Natalia Gumeniuk, spokeswoman for the armed forces of southern Ukraine, emphasizes that Ukrainian army intelligence “does not rule out the possibility of Moscow spreading disinformation” about the alleged withdrawal of its troops from Kherson. According to Gumeniuk, “Russia could try to mislead the Ukrainian military command by simulating a withdrawal or assuring that it will take place.” According to his account, “Russian troops in Kherson remain dressed as civilians (…) we are monitoring the situation closely and we realize that it may be a trick, a provocation, to give the impression that the cities have been abandoned and they are safe from us.”
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov stated that “our troops are advancing on several fronts into Kherson, but Russia has strengthened its positions on both banks of the Dnieper.” In his words, “the rains affect the course of the counter-offensive and in Kherson there are many channels that the enemy uses as trenches.”
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin estimates that Ukrainian troops will soon capture the city of Kherson. “As to whether the Ukrainians can take the remaining area on the western bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson, I certainly think they are clearly capable of doing so. And more importantly, they’re confident they’re going to do it,” Austin said. The city of Kherson is the only provincial capital in Ukraine that Russian troops have managed to capture since the beginning of the war, and they did so very quickly, in the early days of the campaign. Therefore, analysts believe that the Russian military will try to prevent Ukrainian troops from recovering it.
Source: La Verdad
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