The Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Oleksandr Samoylenko called on the residents of the Kherson region to leave the occupied territory in order to make it easier for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to release him. He made this statement in an interview with Ukrinform..

" Why is he? The Armed Forces of Ukraine must have a springboard for activities,"

He stressed that it is not safe to stay in Kherson.

" For Kherson, this option of liberation is unacceptable, and the President, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Minister of Defense understand this - if the city is demolished, then why should it be fired? "

Samoylenko also noted that it is impossible to condemn people who will leave the region through the Russian-occupied Crimea.. The main thing is to keep the maximum number of Kherson residents and facilitate the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As previously reported, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that Russia began transporting relatives of the military to the temporarily occupied settlements of Ukraine, in particular, Kherson.. The occupiers are settled in the housing of Ukrainians.