This photograph taken on October 16, 2022, shows a bodybag containing the remains of an unknown Ukrainian soldier, found near the village of Shandrigolovo, Donetsk region, after the liberation of the area. – “We need to find each of our dead. That’s my motto. There can be no missing,” says Andriy Chernyavskiy, who specialized in military forensics, 20-years-ago in an NGO specializing in the identification of remains of Soviet and German soldiers of the Second World War. “The duty of the Ukrainian army is to bring back every soldier, border guard and every person, including civilians, because everyone deserves a proper burial.” Photo: Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP.
Russia’s army is preparing to evacuate civilians from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, occupied by Moscow, the Russian military commander for Ukraine operations said on Tuesday.
“The Russian army will above all ensure the safe evacuation of the population” of Kherson, General Sergey Surovikin, who has been in charge of operations in Ukraine for the past 10 days, told state television Rossiya 24 describing the situation as “very difficult”.
Kherson is one of the four regions in Ukraine that Moscow recently claimed to have annexed.
ALSO READ: LIVE UPDATES: Russia’s war in Ukraine: Latest developments
ALSO READ: LOOK: Russian tycoon says he STRUGGLES to spend R500k per month in Cape Town
The city of Kherson, which lies near Moscow-annexed Crimea, was the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces after the Kremlin launched its attack on February 24.
Surovikin said Ukrainian strikes targeting civilian infrastructure “create a direct threat to the lives of residents”.
Last week the Kremlin-appointed head of the area. Vladimir Saldo. said the region was being hit by an increasing amount of rockets causing “serious damage”. He said civilian infrastructure was being targeted.
Saldo said those leaving would go to Crimea, a peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and southern Russian regions.
The call came a day after Kyiv said it had retaken five settlements in Kherson.
© Agence France-Presse
ALSO READ: Russia giving troops viagra to rape Ukrainians – report
ALSO READ: SA students in Russia facing eviction and expulsion over non-payment
Stay connected with us on social media platform for instant update click here to join our Twitter, & Facebook
We are now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@TechiUpdate) and stay updated with the latest Technology headlines.
For all the latest World News Click Here
