Russians attack Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, and blame Ukraine's Armed Forces

The Russian occupiers shelled residential districts of the city of Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, and blamed it on Ukrainian fighters.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 18:00 on 27 February

Quote: "The enemy continues to carry out measures to discredit the Ukraine’s Defence Forces and intimidate residents of the temporarily occupied part of Kherson Oblast. The enemy again fired mortars on residential districts of the city of Oleshky and blamed it on the Armed Forces."

Details: In addition, the occupiers set up a military hospital in the village of Kalanchak in place of a regular local hospital. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about 150 wounded servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces have been brought there. As per available information, the medical staff are exclusively Russians.

Background: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that the Russian occupying authorities in Kherson Oblast were preparing to flee to Crimea, and local collaborators began to leave for the territory of the peninsula.

Nataliia Humeniuk, Head of the Joint Press Centre for Operational Command Pivden (South), reported on 27 February that the Russian occupation forces are moving from the left-bank Kherson Oblast closer to Crimea, setting up additional defence structures.

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