As the conflict between Russia and the Ukrainian nation rages on, the acting head of the Kherson region military administration, Dmytro Butriy, has warned the Ukrainian citizens to make sure that they run away from the region, while reiterating that Russian soldiers are not human beings.
Butriy announced this while disclosing that 44 settlements in the area largely occupied by Russian troops have been liberated. He, however, did not give an actual timescale but some of the Ukrainian troops had began an offensive in Kherson in May, recovering a number of villages since then.
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Briefing the press on Thursday, he said that the residents were still suffering following constant bombardment from Russian forces.
“We urge people to evacuate to protect themselves and their families. Russian occupiers are not human,” he said, alleging that the occupiers had even shot civilian cars in convoys as they (the civilians) tried to escape the region.
In another report,Ukraine has reportedly cut off all existing diplomatic relations with North Korea over Pyongyang’s recognition of two pro-Russian breakaway ‘people’s republics’ in Ukraine’s east.
Kyiv’s decision to cut ties with North Korea on yesterday followed shortly after reports emerged that Pyongyang had recognised the independence of two self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine.
‘We consider this decision as an attempt by Pyongyang to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,’ Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement on its website.
North Korea’s move to officially recognise the two breakaway territories – the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) in Ukraine’s Donbas region – makes it only the third country in the world, after Russia and Syria, to do so.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the North’s state-run news agency, said foreign minister Choe Son-hui had sent letters to “her counterparts” in the two regions recognising the rebel-held areas.
Choe ‘expressed the will to develop state-to-state relations with those countries in the idea of independence, peace and friendship,’ KCNA reported on Thursday morning.
