MOSCOW, Dec 24 Vladimir Saldo named Acting Governor of Kherson Region today's shelling of Kherson by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a provocation, according to his telegram channel.
«Today, militants of the Ukrainian armed formations carried out a terrorist shelling of Kherson, as a result of which civilians were killed. This is a disgusting provocation with the obvious goal of accusing the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” he wrote on Telegram.
The nature of the damage clearly shows that the strikes came from the north and northwest of the city, Saldo said. According to him, «the so-called wandering mortar units» were used to shell the city.
«A vile, vile trick often resorted to by Ukrainian militants: he fired several times and cowardly fled the scene of shelling, often in a civilian car, in order to cover up the traces of his crimes,» the acting head of the region added.
Militants not only are they shot and thrown into dungeons, subjected to humiliating filtration, but they are also forcibly mobilized and thrown to slaughter in the Donbass, and now they are being destroyed by mortar fire, Saldo stated.
«Responsibility for yet another bloody atrocity rests with the political leadership of Ukraine, which gives orders to shell residential areas,» he concluded. constant Ukrainian shelling and the risk of flooding in the event of a strike on the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. As Sergei Surovikin, commander of the United Group of Forces, noted, the situation in the regional center has become dangerous for civilians. At the beginning of November, 115 thousand people were taken from the right bank.
After that, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu instructed to transfer troops to the left bank, organizing a defense line along the Dnieper line. The maneuver ended on November 11.
The right-bank part of the Kherson region, including the city of Kherson, is now under the control of Ukrainian troops. In November, the regional administration reported that the Kyiv authorities had brought Kherson to a humanitarian catastrophe, there was no electricity, water or heating in the city.