Russian troops entered the port city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on the 3rd, and a large number of local people took to the streets to protest on the 5th.
The video leaked on Twitter showed that in a square, a large number of people held Ukrainian flags and shouted slogans, and people continued to gather around the square.
“The fact that Russian troops are in the city does not mean that the city has been occupied,” said the netizen who uploaded the video.
The Economist’s Ukraine correspondent, Richard Ensor, also shared the video on Twitter, saying: “You know, Kherson is in the Russian-speaking part of southern Ukraine, and it should be a good thing for the occupied Russian army to do. relatively friendly.”
According to the British “Guardian” report, thousands of people participated in the protest. As protesters took to the streets, some armed men fired into the air to disperse the crowd, local media said.
The Guardian stated that Kherson, as a Black Sea port, became the first major Ukrainian target to fall under the actual control of the Russian army.
However, according to Reuters, a senior U.S. Department of Defense official pointed out to the media on the 3rd local time that the fighting in Kherson is still ongoing, and it is too early to say that it has completely fallen, but also acknowledged that the situation is changing rapidly, “the Russian army’s thinking Probably marching towards Nikolayev to gain a foothold in the northeast of Odessa. In fact, they want to advance to Odessa, not just by sea, but also by land.”
“If Moscow intends to overthrow the Ukrainian government and build a puppet regime, 45 million Ukrainians will resist no matter what,” US Secretary of State Blinken said in an interview with the BBC after meeting EU leaders in Brussels on the 4th.
According to Reuters, Russia and Ukraine will hold a third round of talks on the 7th. Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamiya said in a Facebook post that discussions on ending the hostilities would resume, but gave no further details.