INTEGRATED RUSSIAN TROOP COMMAND POST, November 9. /TASS/. Over 115,000 people were moved from the Kherson Region and the Russian military resorted to its utmost efforts to provide for the safest evacuation, Commander of Russia’s Integrated Group of Forces in Ukraine Army General Sergey Surovikin reported on Wednesday.
"The regional administration made a decision to evacuate people from the right-bank part of the Dnieper River to Crimea and other regions," Surovikin reported. "As of now, all of over 115,000 people, wishing to be evacuated, abandoned this region. We did everything possible on our behalf providing for their safe evacuation."
The general noted that possible dangerous consequences could be entailed on behalf of the enemy seeking to stage a flood bellow the permitted water level of the Kakhovka Hydropower Plant (HPP).
Kherson Region’s Deputy Governor Kirill Stremousov announced earlier, that on November 6 Ukrainian military delivered strikes using HIMARS multiple rocket launchers on the Kakhovka HPP and they were carried out during the evacuation of residents of Novaya Kakhovka, located five kilometers down from the hydroelectric power plant dam.
An organized evacuation from the right-bank part of the Kherson Region lasted three weeks and ended on Monday. For security reasons, the authorities decided to temporarily stop traffic across the Dnieper River, but those who wish can cross to the left bank of the Dnieper by boat. Barges continued to ferry motor vehicles across.