Moscow, Mar. 15, (dpa/GNA) – The Russian military says it has taken control of the entire Kherson region in southern Ukraine.
The area on the Black Sea is home to some 1 million people.
The claim has not been confirmed by the Ukrainian side.
However, Russia had already taken control of the regional capital Kherson. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously warned that Russia was seeking to form a “People’s Republic of Kherson” – akin to the “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, which were recognized by Moscow as independent shortly before the war began.
In its daily situation report on Tuesday, the Russian Defence Ministry said dozens more Ukrainian military objects had been destroyed.
This included three hangars for fighter jets and helicopters near the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk. Some 16 air targets, including a Su-24 and a Su-25 fighter jet, and 13 drones, were also reportedly destroyed.
GNA