MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities
said Saturday they were working to de-mine Kherson, record
Russian crimes, and
restore power across the region one day after Russian withdrawal from the
southern city.
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Ukraine’s president on Friday declared that the
Black Sea city was back in Kyiv’s hands after Moscow said it pulled back more
than 30,000 troops from what was the first major urban hub to fall to Russia
after the February invasion.
Kherson was one of
four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have
annexed in September. But weeks later, the Russian retreat came as a huge boost
to Ukrainians suffering from nearly nine months of fighting.
Ukrainians in Kherson danced around a bonfire and
sang “Chervona Kalyna”, a patriotic song, in the dark, in images distributed by
the Ukrainian military.
After an eight-month Russian occupation, Ukrainian
television resumed broadcasting in the city and the region’s energy provider
said it was working to restore power supplies.
Ukraine’s police chief
Igor Klymenko said around 200
officers were erecting roadblocks and recording “crimes of the Russian
occupiers”.
He urged Kherson residents to watch out for possible
landmines laid by the Russian troops, saying one policeman had been wounded
while de-mining an administrative building.
A woman and two children were taken to hospital with
injuries after an explosive device went off near their car in the region’s
village of Mylove, police said.
In Berislav district of the Kherson region, Ukrainian
police said Russian shelling left “dead and wounded,” without providing further
details.
Nuclear hint
On Saturday, Russia’s former
president
Dmitry Medvedev hinted again that Moscow could use nuclear weapons.
“For reasons that are obvious to all reasonable
people, Russia has not yet used its entire arsenal of possible means of
destruction,” Medvedev said on messaging app Telegram.
“There is a time for everything.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kyiv
and the West were on their way to “joint victory” over Moscow after Russia’s
February 24 invasion.
“This is coming, and our victory will be our joint
victory,” Kuleba said as he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the
sidelines of a Southeast Asian summit in Cambodia.
Kherson’s full recapture would open a gateway for
Ukraine to the entire Kherson region, with access to both the Black Sea in the
west and Sea of Azov in the east.
In Ukraine’s capital, the news was met with joy late
Friday.
Wrapped in flags, popping champagne corks, and belting
out the national anthem, residents of Kherson living in Kyiv celebrated in the
central Maidan square.
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