Since October 19, all bodies of the occupying authorities have ceased their activities in the city of Berislav, Kherson region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an evening summary..

It is also known that collaborators who collaborated with the Russian occupiers continue to leave the city along with their families and property.. “Some of them even took away furniture,” journalist Andrei Tsaplienko reports, citing local residents..

Also in today's report, the Ukrainian Defense Forces confirmed the fire defeat of the pontoon crossing under the Antonovsky bridge in the Kherson region on October 19.

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According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Russians are probably planning to surrender Kherson and withdraw from the right bank of the Dnieper, so they are preparing an appropriate information field that will justify this. And they can also prepare a strike on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in the hope that a dam break could cover their retreat..

Institute experts noted that the commander of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, Sergei Surovikin, said that the Russian military leadership must make " At the same time, the head of the occupation administration of the region, Volodymyr Saldo, announced the evacuation of people to the left bank of the Dnieper in anticipation of a “large-scale” Ukrainian offensive.. At the same time, the Ukrainian Kherson city military administration urges residents of the right bank of the Kherson region not to “evacuate” to the left bank and further to the Russian Federation, as the occupiers want.