The first train from Kiev arrived in Kherson after the withdrawal of Russian troops

First train kyiv This Saturday came from the start of the war GersonThis southern Ukrainian city was occupied by Russian troops from early March until its recent withdrawal.

“The first train from Kyiv arrived in Kherson since the beginning of Russia’s large-scale invasion,” reads a brief message collected from the Kherson city council on Facebook. ukrinform.

Member of Kherson Regional Council, Serhiy JlanIt was reported yesterday that the first train will leave the capital at 22:14 that day and arrive in Kherson at 9:00 local time on Saturday.

“Some will go 200 passengers They have bought a ‘ticket to victory’, the wagons are painted by Ukrainian artists,” he said in a message on Facebook.

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While congratulating “all those back home,” he pointed out that the next trains would depart from Kew on even days and from Kherson on odd days.

Recently, the Ukrainian army It confirmed that it is continuing its offensive to retake the southern parts of the country occupied by the Russians and that it has almost succeeded. 50 settlements in the area MykoliveKherson’s neighbor to the south already controls its capital, Kyiv.

“Let’s say there are 48 apartments that were under occupation; Now we offer Humanitarian aid There at full capacity,” said the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration. Vitaly KimLocal media reported.

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Kim said the next few days “will give security forces time to complete stabilization measures so that engineers can restore communications, television signal and heating systems.”

He added that it had been sent Five trucks With humanitarian assistance, it is predicted that these settlements will return to normalcy in the not-too-distant future.

Kim made the statement on Monday, according to a Ukrainian agency UNIANPractically the whole of the area was liberated, except the so-called “Kinburn’s Tongue”In the northwestern part of the peninsula of the same name, a strip of sand between the mouth of the Dnieper River and the Black Sea.

Mykolaiv was one of the Ukrainian regions that suffered the most attacks by Russian troops in an attempt to control the entire southern part of the Ukrainian territory.

Its capital is located 100 kilometers to the northeast GersonThe capital of the homonymous region and it returned to Ukrainian hands.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

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