Ukraine to begin voluntary evacuation from Kherson: Deputy PM



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Ukraine to begin voluntary evacuation from Kherson: Deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the elderly and those affected by Russian shelling would be evacuated first.

A plume of smoke rises from a fire caused by a Russian attack in Kherson, southern Ukraine, on November 19, 2022 [Roman Hrytsyna/AP]
Published On 20 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022
Ukraine will begin to evacuate people who want to leave the recently liberated southern city of Kherson and its surrounding areas, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has announced, citing damage to infrastructure by Russian forces that had made life extremely difficult for residents.

News of the evacuation came as Russian missiles were reported to have struck an oil depot in Kherson on Saturday evening, officials said, the first time a fuel storage facility had been hit in the city since Russia withdrew more than a week ago.

Vereshchuk said on Saturday that a number of people had expressed a wish to move away from Kherson and the area around Mykolaiv, about 65 km (40 miles) to the northwest.

“This is possible in the next few days,” she told a televised news conference in Mykolaiv when asked when the evacuations from Kherson would begin.

Vereshchuck said the government had already made the necessary preparations for the evacuation. Among those who wanted to leave were the elderly and those who had been affected by Russian shelling, she said.

“This is only a voluntary evacuation. Currently, we are not talking about forced evacuation,” Vereshchuk said.

“But even in the case of voluntary evacuation, the state bears responsibility for transportation. People must be taken to the place where they will spend the winter,” she said.


The government had several evacuation options, one of which was to use Mykolaiv as a transit point before sending people further west into safer areas of the country, she added.

In August, Vereshchuk said Ukraine planned to expand the number of front-line districts where civilian evacuations would be mandatory, as those areas could be occupied and would also face problems with heating during the Ukrainian winter months.

Two missiles hit a fuel depot on Saturday in Kherson, firefighters at the scene told the Associated Press news organisation.

Anton Gerashchenko, a government adviser and a former deputy minister at Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, posted a short video on Twitter apparently showing thick smoke billowing after powerful explosions were reported in Kherson on Saturday.

“Russia continues its daily terror,” he wrote.



Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian troops of destroying Kherson’s critical infrastructure before retreating earlier this month.

Local authorities also told the Associated Press that when Russian forces left the Kherson city area, they stole fire trucks and ambulances, and firefighters said they were now scrambling for resources to respond to missile and other attacks.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials have accused Russia of trying to destabilise the country by destroying power stations in an attempt to freeze the population into submission and force millions of Ukrainians to flee westward, creating a refugee crisis for the European Union.

Ukraine’s energy ministry said on Saturday that the country’s electricity supplies were under control despite the ongoing wave of Russian attacks on power-generating infrastructure.

Russian missile raids have crippled almost half of Ukraine’s energy system and Kyiv authorities said on Friday that a complete shutdown of the capital’s power grid was possible.


A view shows Lviv city centre without electricity after critical civil infrastructure was hit by Russian missile attacks in Ukraine on November 15, 2022 [Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters]
“We assure you that the situation with the energy supply is difficult, but under control,” the energy ministry said in a statement.

Authorities across the country have scheduled blackouts to help the repair effort, the ministry said, urging families to cut their energy consumption by at least 25 percent.

Maxim Timchenko, the head of DTEK, the country’s largest private energy company, said the armed forces, the energy industry and individual Ukrainians were working miracles to maintain supplies and people should not flee the country.

“That is why there is no need to leave Ukraine today,” a company statement cited him as saying on Saturday.

Also on Saturday, the first train in nine months to travel from Kyiv to Kherson arrived in the city after departing the Ukrainian capital on Friday night — a journey only made possible by the Russian withdrawal.

Ukraine’s state rail network, Ukrzaliznytsia, said 200 passengers travelled on board the train, dubbed the “Train to Victory”, which had been painted in eclectic designs by Ukrainian artists. Tickets were sold as part of a fundraising campaign.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

why does the US have to gather countries just to fight one? isn't it the behavior of a loser to hide in the crowd to fight their own battles? Russia and China share one of the longest land borders on earth and are both military powerhouse, resources, and economical heavyweights, are in BRICS, have a good relationship, and have the same common enemy.

They could easily just become military allies like NATO, but they didn't, because they are assured of their strength and feared nothing. If you are big, strong, and powerful, you will have no fear or to hide in an alliance, something the US shamelessly does. And somehow, people on this forum are so blind to see the game for what it is when it is even when it is as clear as day. Brainwashing is really bad. Turns a grown up man to a simpleton


Now Ukraine is in darkness lol

Ukraine was jumping up and down when Russia withdrew because of the river on the other part

They Russia now started bombing that area with it fire now Ukraine too wants to run away from that same place due to the death they accumulate lol.

LOL will they rejoice now that they are running away.

In order to liberate Kherson you have to occupy the entire city which is divided in the middle by a river. The Russians made a tactical withdrawal to the other side of the river. At the moment the river is a natural obstacle for the Ukrainian army and there is no indication that they are going to cross.

Come on don't evacuate, you are winning this war and putin has run out of soldiers(according to your western masters) ��

Betscoreodds:
why does the US have to gather countries just to fight one? isn't it the behavior of a loser to hide in the crowd to fight their own battles? Russia and China share one of the longest land borders on earth and are both military powerhouse, resources, and economical heavyweights, are in BRICS, have a good relationship, and have the same common enemy.

They could easily just become military allies like NATO, but they didn't, because they are assured of their strength and feared nothing. If you are big, strong, and powerful, you will have no fear or to hide in an alliance, something the US shamelessly does. And somehow, people on this forum are so blind to see the game for what it is when it is even when it is as clear as day. Brainwashing is really bad. Turns a grown up man to a simpleton


Now Ukraine is in darkness lol

No friend. You are the one in darkness. That's what your post says about you.

Hotice085 how is it going?? Why the sudden change of game?? I thought Russia was beaten back?? You western slave would always be made a fool!! Cry me a River

Running already

Karnice600:

No friend. You are the one in darkness. That's what your post says about you.

You need history 101 even fifa president just acknowledged the west need to stay in its lane.

DerrickzB:
Hotice085 how is it going?? Why the sudden change of game?? I thought Russia was beaten back?? You western slave would always be made a fool!! Cry me a River

You be real olodo, a very 4k olosho boy.
Do you know the meaning of "voluntary" ?
Who is in charge of Kherson?
You still get the audacity to open ya very useless shameless mouth to talk

Kingsnairaland:
In order to liberate Kherson you have to occupy the entire city which is divided in the middle by a river. The Russians made a tactical withdrawal to the other side of the river. At the moment the river is a natural obstacle for the Ukrainian army and there is no indication that they are going to cross.

Remember to remind me, to remind you and that crab DerrickzB when Zenlenskys boys completes the banishment of Russians from Kherson

Hotice085:


Remember to remind me, to remind you and that crab DerrickzB when Zenlenskys boys completes the banishment of Russians from Kherson

You have not been following the news Russia left to set them up that why they are running away from that place... Ukraine is in darkness while winter is coming.... Don't cry yet.
.

Mayor of kyiv is begging for blankets go send one.

Kingsnairaland:


You have not been following the news Russia left to set them up that why they are running away from that place... Ukraine is in darkness while winter is coming.... Don't cry yet.
.

Mayor of kyiv is begging for blankets go send one.

Since day 1 Ukraine begs for practically everything and they gets it's in thousands unlike Russia that has been stealing cutleries, washing machines, foodstuffs from Ukraine
Ordinary cigarettes they kill themselves in their camps, so worry not about Ukraine begging but Criminal Russia that can't feed and take care of her soldiers
No wonder they are using criminals
I am not just sending one but cryptos to help with bills
Good punish POOtin and his followers

Kingsnairaland:


You have not been following the news Russia left to set them up that why they are running away from that place... Ukraine is in darkness while winter is coming.... Don't cry yet.
.

Mayor of kyiv is begging for blankets go send one.

Can he afford a blanket? The little pennies he has is spent on data to read Western propaganda

Betscoreodds:
why does the US have to gather countries just to fight one? isn't it the behavior of a loser to hide in the crowd to fight their own battles? Russia and China share one of the longest land borders on earth and are both military powerhouse, resources, and economical heavyweights, are in BRICS, have a good relationship, and have the same common enemy.

They could easily just become military allies like NATO, but they didn't, because they are assured of their strength and feared nothing. If you are big, strong, and powerful, you will have no fear or to hide in an alliance, something the US shamelessly does. And somehow, people on this forum are so blind to see the game for what it is when it is even when it is as clear as day. Brainwashing is really bad. Turns a grown up man to a simpleton


Now Ukraine is in darkness lol

Damn, you copy and paste my comment from a previous thread in verbatim below.

https://www.nairaland.com/7435270/russian-missiles-kill-two-poland/8#118426688

I no mind, but you suppose acknowledge by sourcing it.

If na abroad we dey, I go don sue you since

Hotice085:


Since day 1 Ukraine begs for practically everything and they gets it's in thousands unlike Russia that has been stealing cutleries, washing machines, foodstuffs from Ukraine
Ordinary cigarettes they kill themselves in their camps, so worry not about Ukraine begging but Criminal Russia that can't feed and take care of her soldiers
No wonder they are using criminals
I am not just sending one but cryptos to help with bills
Good punish POOtin and his followers

you don't need to cry yet.