“I will restore peace to the whole country”… Russia “Kherson is Russian territory”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson, the capital of the recently reclaimed southern Kherson province, Reuters and the Associated Press reported on the 14th (local time).
President Zelensky visited Kherson on the same day to encourage the Ukrainian army and said, “We are moving forward. We are ready to find peace.”
We will restore peace to the whole country.”
At this meeting, he also expressed his gratitude for the support of allies, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Kherson is the capital of Kherson Province, a strategic strategic point connecting Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, forcibly annexed by Russia in 2014, and the eastern regions of Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk Regions) occupied by pro-separatist forces. Russian by land.
The Ukraine recaptured Kherson shortly after Russian forces withdrew on the 11th.
It has been eight months since the region was taken away by Russia in March, immediately after the start of the war.
Russia incorporated Kherson Oblast into Russian Federation territory at the end of September, along with other occupied territories such as Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia, but withdrew from the capital within two months.
In a speech to the nation immediately after the restoration of Kherson, President Zelensky congratulated, “Today is a historic day.”
In mid-September, he visited Ijium, which was reclaimed during the Northeast Harki space recovery operation, and encouraged the troops and said, “We will only advance until victory.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he “would not comment” on APF’s request for comment on Zelensky’s visit to Kherson, but insisted that “the region is part of the Russian Federation”.
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