By Hugues Maillot
Posted 2 hours ago, updated 39 minutes ago
A Ukrainian artillery unit near Kherson. BULENT KILIC / AFP
MAINTENANCE – Missing flags, equipment evacuation, heavy vehicle sites emptied, relay antennas and boats destroyed… According to military historian Cédric Mas, there are “very strong signals for a major evacuation”.
Cédric Mas is a military historian and President of the Action Resilience Institute. He has been an avid observer of the war in Ukraine since the beginning.
LE FIGARO. – Several testimonies indicate that at least part of the Russian armed forces is leaving Kherson. What do we know about the situation?
Cedric Mas. – On the other side of the Dnieper, there was an evacuation of heavy equipment, confirmed by satellite images, especially around the airfield near Kherson, which was heavily bombed several times. Many truck parking spaces have been emptied. Added to this were the more or less forced evacuations of the population. The novelty since yesterday is that boats are systematically destroyed on the banks, anything that allows you to cross the river. We also have the destruction of relay antennas with explosives on the North Shore. And then there is the emptiness. The testimonies of the people who stayed in Kherson say that there is no longer…
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