Stela at the entrance to Kherson. File photoMOSCOW, June 16Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the status of the Kherson region and a number of districts of the Kharkiv region depends on the will of the local population.According to Peskov, Russia's «number one goal» is to protect residents Donetsk and Luhansk from those who shell the Donbass and kill civilians. «As for other territories and regions of Ukraine, the more our military clears the territory of nationalist battalions, the more people declare their desire to stop living with the regime in Kyiv,» — Peskov said in an interview with CNN.
