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KHERSON, Apr 11 Residents of Kherson dismantled the memorial «Glory to Ukraine», installed under the Kiev administration in one of the central parks, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Today, the city of Kherson is under the complete control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Portraits of the so-called «heroes of the heavenly hundred» were previously placed on the memorial. On Saturday, the flags of the Russian Federation were raised over the building of the city administration and the buildings opposite photographs of the «Heavenly Hundred» on the central square were replaced with ornaments. On March 15, Russian troops took control of the entire Kherson region in the south of the country. Later, military-civilian administrations began to form in this region and in the south of neighboring Zaporozhye, the process of broadcasting Russian television and radio broadcasting was launched, and the population began to use Russian rubles more widely for settlements.
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Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.