The Ukrainian army said on Friday that it had attacked Russia’s positions in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, a region almost entirely under the control of Russian forces where kyiv fears it will soon organize Moscow a referendum for an annexation to Russia.
Our air force hit Russian positions, sites where equipment and personnel are concentrated and depots around five localities of the Kherson regionsaid the general staff of the Ukrainian army on Friday on Facebook.
Almost the entire Kherson region, including the regional capital, has been occupied by Russian troops since the first days of the Russian aggression launched on February 24.
Washed by the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, this region of an area of approximately 28,000 square kilometers had more than a million inhabitants before the war.
One of the Russian negotiators in the dispute with Ukraine mentioned 1eh June the next organization of a referendum in the territories occupied by the Russians, with a view to the merger, which could take place in July, a project denounced by kyiv.
Russia organized a referendum in Crimea in 2014, before gradually incorporating the peninsula.
France Media Agency
Source: Radio-Canada
