View of the Dnieper River and Kherson. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, June 4Ukraine has blocked bank accounts in the Kherson region, effectively stealing the savings of the population, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civilian administration (CAA) of the region, told RIA Novosti.
" People can't withdraw money. Their cards are no longer being serviced. ATMs, after the disconnection of communications and the Internet by Ukraine, do not work. Ukraine has done everything to rob people so as not to pay the money that they have left in their bank accounts. These are Privatbank, Oschadbank. They did everything on purpose so that people could not withdraw funds from their accounts,» said Stremousov.
At the same time, according to him, banks that are integrated into the Russian financial system will start operating in the region in the near future. Russian the military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. Civil-military administrations are working in the regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations have begun broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» that the UAF invasion attempts failed