Desk Report
Publish: 03 Mar 2022, 10:59 am
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Russian forces have taken the Ukrainian city of Kherson,
local officials confirmed, the first major urban centre to fall since Moscow
invaded one week ago.
"The (Russian) occupiers are in all parts of the city
and are very dangerous," Gennady Lakhuta, head of the regional
administration, wrote on messaging service Telegram late Wednesday. The mayor of the port city of 290,000, Igor
Kolykhaiev, announced discussions with "armed guests" in Kherson's
city administration.
"We had no weapons and were not aggressive. We showed
that we are working to secure the city and are trying to deal with the
consequences of the invasion," he wrote in a Facebook post.
"We are having
huge difficulties with the collection and burial of the dead, the delivery of
food and medicine, the collection of
garbage, the management of accidents, etc.," he continued.
Kolykhaiev said that he had "made no promises" to
the invading forces but asked them "not to shoot people", while also
announcing a night curfew in the city and a restriction on car traffic.
"So far so good. The flag flying above us is Ukrainian. And for it to stay
that way, these requirements must be met," he added.
The Russian army announced its seizure of Kherson, located not
far from the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014 by Moscow, on Wednesday morning.The
Black Sea city came under siege as Russian forces pressed ahead with their
offensives on other urban centres.
Another key Ukrainian port, Berdiansk, has already been
seized by Russian troops, while Mariupol has repelled attacks "with
dignity," according to that city's mayor, Vadym Boychenko. "Today was
the hardest and cruellest day of the seven-day war. Today they just wanted to
destroy us all," he said in a video on Telegram, accusing Russian forces
of shooting at residential buildings. Boychenko said infrastructure was damaged
in the assault, leaving people without light, water or heating.
Russian forces have also bombarded Ukraine's second-biggest
city Kharkiv,in an attack that has prompted comparisons to the massacres of
civilians in Sarajevo in the 1990s. After days of intense fighting, hundreds of
civilians have been killed, while around one million people have fled Ukraine
since the invasion began, triggering punishing Western sanctions intended to
cripple Russia's economy.
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