He says communication lines, water and heat supplies, as well as electricity production were destroyed before the Russians fled, but local authorities are working on repairs.
Russians everywhere have the same goal. To humiliate people as much as possible. But we will return everything. You can count on that, Zelensky said.
Ukrainian soldiers who have entered the city since Friday after the withdrawal of Russian troops were greeted with cheers.
Final victory. Thank God we were released. Now everything is going in place, said 43-year-old Svetlana Galak in the village of Pravdin. She lost her daughter during the war.
Return to normal conditions
In the center of Kherson, the head of the district administration, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said that everything should be done to restore normal life in the region.
In a video posted on social media, he said that a curfew had been imposed during mine clearance, and that movement in and out of the area was restricted. In the background, people can be seen celebrating.
Eight months into the Russian occupation, Ukrainian television has been restored, and the city’s electric company says it is working to restore electricity.
Ukrainian police chief Igor Klimenko stated that roadblocks have been set up and that they are in the process of documenting the “crimes of the Russian occupiers”. He also asked people to beware of mines.
evacuation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo: AFP/NTB
Across the Dnipro River, local Russian occupying forces in the Kakhovka region issued evacuation orders for all personnel to travel to Krasnodar, Russia.
The restoration of Kherson opened the way for the Ukrainians to the entire Kherson region, with access to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the east.
If the Ukrainians regain the entire Kherson region, they will cut off the route of the Russians on the mainland from Russia to the Crimea, which was occupied in 2014.
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