Russia moves troops from Crimea to Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions – Humeniuk
The Russian invaders are transferring their soldiers from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the temporarily occupied districts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
In this way, they are trying to compensate for losses at the front.
This was stated by Natalia Gumenyuk, head of the Joint Coordination Press Centre of the Southern Defence Forces, during the United News telethon.
– “It is quite obvious that they are pulling up forces in the Zaporizhzhia direction and trying to strengthen the Kherson direction,” she said.
According to Humeniuk, the occupiers previously concentrated “a fairly powerful group” in these two areas, which supplied forces to eastern Ukraine.
– Now they themselves need to improve their situation accordingly, she added.
She stressed that the pseudo-elections in the territories temporarily occupied by Russia are aimed at collecting information about local men of military age, engaging them in “territorial defence” and then joining the occupation forces in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Earlier, the State Border Guard Service reported that Russia had withdrawn almost all of its units that had received military training there from Belarus as part of a rotation.
