Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Russian Forces Seize Control Of Kherson City
Mumbai: In the midst of the Ukraine-Russia crisis, Russian forces have captured Ukraine’s main southern city of Kherson.
“Russian forces seize the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson after taking control of the local council building, Kherson’s mayor, Igor Kolykhaiev, said in a Facebook post on March 2,” tweeted The Kyiv Independent.
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Indicating that the city is now under Russian control, Kolykhayev said in a social media post that the Ukrainian army is no longer in the city and that its residents must now obey the instructions of “armed people who came to the city’s administration”, CNN reported.
According to media outlets, Russian forces had for several days besieged the strategically important city of Kherson, a gateway to the Black Sea with a population of about 300,000.
Also on Thursday capital city Kyiv woke up to an air raid alert with its residents being advised to take shelter in safe houses.
Air raid alerts in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv and Chernihiv Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Kirovohrad Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa, The Kyiv Independent tweeted.
Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday with 141 nations voting in favour of the move and five nations against it, with 35 countries, including India, abstaining.
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