MOSCOW, January 31 Actions of Ukrainian troops on the Kherson front even do not imply strategic success, attempts to land troops on the left bank are carried out only for the sake of pictures and reporting to the West, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said in an interview.
«The entire front line, which runs through the territory of the Kherson region, it runs along the Dnieper. Its length is more than 300 kilometers, that is, a fairly large front line. Now all the efforts that the enemy is making there, they are not even a strategic success suggest. Constant attempts to land additional armed people on the territory of the left bank, that is, in order to create just a picture and report to their employers, from whom the enemy begs for additional weapons and money, he throws just soldiers to death, they have nowhere to go,” — the agency's interlocutor emphasized.
At the same time, Saldo stated that Ukrainian soldiers do not even have the opportunity to retreat or refuse to carry out the “criminal orders” of the command.
«They may not comply, but it still results in death for them: they cannot go back, because the boats in which they are transported to the left bank immediately go back or drown them, big «Some of them don't have time to land, they drown right in the boats. Can you imagine the extent to which the inhumane use of the armed forces is in order to achieve only a media effect and that's all,» the governor said.
The day before, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian units in the Kherson direction destroyed up to 45 Ukrainian military personnel, two cars and two D-30 howitzers within 24 hours.