Kherson. Archive photoSIMFEROPOL, May 24.The Russian language, along with Ukrainian, will receive the status of a state language in the Kherson region liberated from Ukrainian nationalists, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration of the region, told RIA Novosti. the Russian language will become important. We do not prohibit the Ukrainian language and will not somehow play in some kind of language stories, «Stremousov told RIA Novosti. According to him, education in schools and universities will be conducted in Russian, but parents, Ukrainian classes can also be formed. «We will not infringe on anyone's rights. Plus, we have a large community of Crimean Tatars living in our region. «, — stressed Stremousov. The Russian military took the Kherson region under control in the middle of March. Civil-military administrations were formed in cities and districts. At the same time, Ukrainian troops are constantly shelling the region from Nikolaev, and the Kyiv authorities have turned off mobile communications there and stopped paying pensions to local residents. The authorities of the Kherson region have repeatedly spoken about the region's entry into Russia. As Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted, this issue should be decided by the residents of the region themselves, and it should be clearly verified, have a legal justification and be legitimate, as in the case of Crimea. Russia has been conducting a special military operation since February 24 to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The armed forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have «significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine.» The main goal of the operation in the Russian defense department was called the liberation of Donbass.
