Authorities rule out Kherson Region returning under Ukraine control
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Ukrainian nationalists prevented 90 citizens of five foreign countries to evacuate and continue to hold them hostages as human shields.
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Convoy of Russian military tanks in the vicinity of Kherson (Sputnik)
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Kherson region's military-civilian government, has ruled out the possibility of the Kherson region returning under Ukrainian control.
In March, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russia's armed forces had taken control of the entire territory of the Kherson region, south of Ukraine.
Stremousov stated that "the issue of returning the Kherson Region back to Nazi Ukraine is out of the question. This is impossible. The Kherson Region will develop economically. Kiev will no longer be able to impose on our land its ugly Nazi policy, aimed at destroying people and their identity."
He slammed Ukrainian reports about possible referendums in the region as fake.
Ukrainian nationalists continue to use foreign citizens as human shields
On his part, the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, who simultaneously leads the Russian humanitarian response coordination headquarters, has stated that Ukrainian nationalists prevented 90 foreign citizens from evacuating.
"Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold 90 foreign citizens from five states hostage as human shields," he stated.
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