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Even detained: the Russian Federation creates a battalion from the residents of the occupied Kherson region

According to the Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yuri Sobolevsky, men promise that they will not participate in hostilities, but will only perform internal functions such as checkpoints. But the residents refuse. In the occupied territories of the Kherson region, Russians are mobilizing the local population.

For example, they campaign to join the army, promise cash, financial support, and still try to create a battalion named after Vasyl Margelov (Soviet General, who was released by Kherson during the Second World War). The latter is likely to be the Russians. The first deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yuri Sobolevsky said this in a comment to Focus.

"Men who enter the battalion promise that they will not participate in hostilities, they will be assigned to the performance of internal functions, the protection of checkpoints. People refuse," he says. "Recently, information appeared that the Russians offered to enter the battalion by people , detained and arrested before the start of the war and who are in prison in exchange for amnesty. There were also refusing to give up.

But it is unknown what will happen next when they understand that they cannot create a battalion and maybe start conduct semi -voluntary mobilization to provide a good report for Moscow. " Read other details about how the region's counter -offensive, and other details in the analytical material of "Kherson's silence. Earlier it was reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can mobilize almost 80 thousand inhabitants of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.