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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Felix Light

Putin says civilians in Ukraine's Kherson should be evacuated

Civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled Kherson region of Ukraine get off a bus as they arrive at a local railway station, after Russian-installed officials extended an evacuation order to the area along the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, in the town of Dzhankoi, Crimea November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that civilians in Ukraine's Kherson region should be evacuated from the conflict zone, the Kremlin chief's first acknowledgement of a deteriorating situation in a region he claims to have annexed.

"Now, of course, those who live in Kherson should be removed from the zone of the most dangerous actions, because the civilian population should not suffer," Putin told pro-Kremlin activists as he marked Russia's Day of National Unity.

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