Civil servants working for the Russian administration in Nova Kakhovka, the second-largest city in southern Kherson region, have left due to fighting, officials said on Tuesday.
The city lies on the east bank of the Dnipro river, next to the huge Kakhovka dam, which both Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of shelling. It also adjoins the mouth of the North Crimean Canal, a crucial source of fresh water to the arid Crimean peninsula.
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The evacuation of people further into the Kherson region continues, the region’s acting governor, Vladimir Saldo, said on Tuesday.
"The evacuation continues," he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel. According to him, people are moving further into the region and outside it for security reasons. The evacuation, in his words, will continue until all those willing are evacuated.
Saldo recalled that more than 115,000 people have been relocated from the right bank of the Dnieper River to the left bank since the beginning of the evacuation campaign. Some of those people have been housed at their relatives’ or friends’ in the cities of Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Aleshki, Golaya Pristan.
However, in his words, because of intensifying shelling by Ukrainian troops these people will have to move further into the region.
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Officials of the Novaya Kakhovka administration have left the city due to regular shelling by Ukrainian forces, moving to safer areas of the region, the administration’s press service said.
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