Russian officials say they are trying to remove all civilians, warning of Ukrainian shelling and 'terrorist attacks'. But in a detailed interview, one Kherson resident told Sky News the evacuation is not designed for them. Sky's Sparkomat reports 👇
Ukrainian troops closing in on the city, thousands have leftKherson was the first major city to fall to Vladimir Putin's military after the invasion began in February and its recapture would represent a major prize for the Ukrainians.from the city's piers, their bags and suitcases hauled speedily behind them.
But in a detailed interview, one resident of Kherson told Sky News that the evacuation is not designed for them. Russian kindergarten workers were shipped in, our interviewee says, to help administer a discredited referendum that preceded Russia's annexation of the region of Kherson."I think because of the [Russian] mobilisation, we can see new soldiers entering Kherson in fresh uniforms. They are clean, without any dirt, and very young. A lot of them are like me, in glasses, we can see they are students - but not professional soldiers.
Sky News has seen pictures of ransacked shops and businesses with signs placed on the front."Empty," they read."Everything's stolen." Our interviewee says that everything has been lifted, large and small.'Russia plans to blow-up major dam'