It will take a day or two to restore mobile communication in Kherson because the towers of mobile operators were destroyed, the head of the Kherson regional council, Oleksandr Samoylenko, has said, Suspilne reports.
"Kherson also has big problems with electricity supply because the Russian occupiers blew up more than 1.5 km of high-voltage lines that supplied the bulk of electricity to the city. Generators will be brough in as soon as possible to feed water supply and removal," he said.
He suggsted that in a few days, when the filtration measures necessary to localise the remaining groups of saboteurs are more or less completed, peaceful life will return to Kherson.
"The first thing we need is food products to fill the shelves of stores or as humanitarian aid. Medicines will be returned. Today all municipal hospitals of the regional council are already working out the mechanism of returning and providing the maximum assistance that Kherson residents need," said Samoylenko.
Five hundred police officers have already started working on the territory of Kherson Region liberated from Russians. Soon their number will be significantly increased.
He head of the Kherson regional military administration, Yaroslav Yanushevych, urged residents not to rush to return to the de-occupied settlements.