MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The pro-Russian authorities of the Kherson region, located in the south of Ukraine and recently annexed by Russia, announced on Monday the launch of a “territorial defense unit”, a kind of militia similar to those already existing in the self-proclaimed independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, also annexed by Moscow.
“For all men who wish to remain in Kherson, despite the growing security threat due to the actions of Ukrainian nationalists, an opportunity has been created to join the territorial defense units,” the pro-Russian government of Kherson reported. the region, according to the TASS agency.
In their statement, released on the Telegram social network, the Kherson authorities close to Russia have detailed that the security forces “continue to guarantee security” in the territory and have recalled that any citizen can leave the city of Kherson towards the west bank. of the Dnieper River as part of the evacuation announced by the regional government.
Kherson’s pro-Moscow governor, Volodimir Saldo, announced last week that civilians on the eastern edge of the region would be moved to the west in response to a hypothetical flood in the area in the event that the Ukrainian Army attacked the dam of a hydroelectric power station in New Kakhovska.
From kyiv they have responded that it is the Russian Armed Forces who, in fact, plan to attack said critical infrastructure, following the strategy adopted by the Kremlin for a few weeks to attack the energy facilities of a large part of the Ukrainian territory.
With the creation of this militia, Kherson would join Donetsk and Luganks, who have defense battalions that have fought hand in hand with the Russian Army in the war in Ukraine.
