This statement was made by the acting governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo.
“The Ukrainian side is building up forces for a large-scale offensive.
The Russian Federation has formed a military group to repel this offensive.
Our land, peaceful cities and villages of the Kherson region can become the battlefield of this confrontation,” he said.
The balance warned of the danger of flooding of the territories due to the risk of the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and the discharge of water from a cascade of power plants upstream of the Dnieper.
“In such a situation, I made a difficult but correct decision to announce the organized movement of the civilian population of Berislav, Belozersky, Snigirev and Aleksandrovsky municipalities to the left bank of the Dnieper,” he added.
Saldo emphasized that "where the military operates, there is no place for civilians."
“Under these conditions, our key task is to save human lives and allow the troops of the Russian Federation to effectively perform their functions to protect the Kherson region.
We will take the civilian population to the left bank in an organized, stage-by-stage manner,” the acting governor said.
On October 18, General of the Army Sergey Surovikin, commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the area of the NMD, said that the Russian army would ensure the safe exit of the residents of the Kherson region, already announced, under the resettlement program being prepared by the government.
According to him, the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pose a direct threat to the population of Kherson.
As Surovikin noted, the Russian Armed Forces will "act consciously, in a timely manner, not excluding the adoption of the most difficult decisions."