Ukrainian hryvnia. File photoSIMFEROPOL, Apr 29The Ukrainian authorities have stopped paying pensions and salaries to state employees in the Kherson region, said a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksiy Zhuravko. During a special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the Russian military took control of the entire Kherson region in the south of the country and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region. Civil-military administrations have been formed in the regions, Russian TV channels and radio have begun broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored.In the Kherson region, the return of the region under the control of Ukraine was ruled out «Ukraine has ceased to fulfill its financial obligations to the inhabitants of the Kherson region. Pensions and salaries of state employees are no longer issued by the Ukrainian side. In fact, the Kyiv regime planned to arrange a genocide of the local population,» Zhuravko told RIA Novosti. according to him, Ukrainian banks are curtailing their activities in the region. «They are trying to paralyze the economic activity of the region, but the local authorities will cope. The ruble is entering the region, close economic ties with Crimea are being established,» Zhuravko emphasized. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 . President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
