Ukraine Forces Enter Kherson

November 12, 2022 3:42 am

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) – Authorities say Ukrainian police officers and broadcasts are returning to the southern city of Kherson following the withdrawal of Russian troops. The chief of the National Police of Ukraine said in a Facebook post on Saturday that some 200 officers were at work in the city, setting up checkpoints and documenting evidence of possible war crimes. He says police teams also were working to identify and neutralize unexploded ordnance, and one sapper was injured while demining an administrative building. Ukraine’s communications watchdog said national TV and radio broadcasts had resumed, An adviser to Kherson’s mayor described the situation in Kherson after more than eight months of occupation as “a humanitarian catastrophe.”  Ukraine’s president says that special military units have entered the city of Kherson.  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the announcement Friday in a video address hours after Russia said it had completed withdrawing troops from the strategically key city. Zelenskyy said that “as of now, our defenders are approaching the city. In quite a bit, we are going to enter. But special units are already in the city.”