The occupiers want to organize a mass deportation from the city.
The Russian military are planning to conduct a "demonstration action. For this purpose, they are going to forcibly deport ethnic Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Meskhetian Turks from Kherson to temporarily occupied Crimea.
This was reported by the Deputy Prime Minister - Ministry of Reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk at a briefing.
According to her, the Russian military understands, lose control over the city.
"Kherson residents actively and en masse come out to rallies against the occupation. Therefore, the Russian military resort to propaganda - taking people to the Crimea under their control. However, these steps are worthless and criminal! And Kherson and Khersonians are Heroes," the message reads.
Earlier it became known that the Russian occupiers have lost full control over Kherson. It is now more difficult for the invaders to break through to Nikolaev. The success of the AFU in Kherson will be a hard blow to the military efforts of the Russian command, the Western media wrote.