GENICHESK, April 3. /TASS/. Acting governor of the Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo has refuted reports of the Ukrainian General Staff about alleged plans of evacuation from the Skadovsk district on the Dnieper left bank, saying that plans to return to the right bank are being looked at instead.

"Our enemies are lying disgracefully again. This time, about plans of the evacuation from the Skladovsk district. I would like to stress: there is no evacuation and none is planned. But we are discussing plans to return to the right bank," he wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday.

Ukrainian troops "cannot defeat us on the battlefield, so, they regularly make up little fantasies, indulging in wishful thinking," he noted. "They’d better prepare for the evacuation from Kherson."

The Ukrainian General Staff said in March that Russian forces had allegedly left Novaya Kakhovka but later refuted these reports. Saldo said back then that these were bogus stories and stressed that Russian troops had not withdrawn from Novaya Kakhovka and other localities on the Dnieper left bank.