Major Ukrainian city has reportedly 'fallen' to Russian troops
Russian troops have seized their first major Ukrainian city since the start of an invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported.
The port city of Kherson, located 126 miles east of Odessa, has a population of roughly 300,000, which would make it the largest locality to come under the control of Russian forces since Russia began its invasion last Thursday, if reports of its capture are confirmed.
“There is no Ukrainian army here,” Kherson’s mayor, Igor Kolykhaev, told the Times. “The city is surrounded.”
local officials reported that there were hundreds of Ukrainian casualties.
” Kolykhaev told the Times. “If we can make a photograph it makes sense to try to identify them, but if not we put them into bags and bury them that way.”
This doesn't make any sense. There was no army to fight but there are hundreds of bodies and no one wanted to take pictures for war crime evidence.