Ukraine accuses Russia of planting mines in the city of Kherson before the withdrawal

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Nov. 10 () –

The Government of Ukraine has accused the Russian Armed Forces of trying to turn Kherson into a “city of death”, with hidden mines that would supposedly serve as traps for the entry of Ukrainian troops, who aspire to recover the only provincial capital occupied since the start of the invasion in February.

“The Russian army has mined everything it can: apartments, sewers. The artillery on the left bank (of the Dnieper River) plans to turn the city into ruins,” said Mikhailo Podoliak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky.

“This is what the ‘Russian world’ looks like: they came, they stole, they celebrated, they killed ‘witnesses’, they left ruins and they left,” he reviewed on Twitter, a day after Moscow confirmed the withdrawal and the final move to the right bank of the Dnieper after the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.

The Russian government has avoided assuming this withdrawal as a defeat and speaks, instead, of logistical issues. Meanwhile, kyiv does not rule out that everything is a trap to launch a counteroffensive, a thesis that both military and political authorities have shared in recent days.

British military intelligence also sees “likely” that the Russian forces have left mines in the areas from which they are now withdrawing to delay the advance of the Ukrainian troops. With this objective, they have also destroyed several bridges in the region, one of the four that Russia claims as its own after the fraudulent referendums.