- A Kremlin-installed official in the south Ukraine region of Kherson urged residents to remain calm Tuesday, Oct.4, as reports were surfacing that Kyiv’s forces were making sweeping gains into Russian-controlled territory.
- Moscow this month called up hundreds of thousands of troops to bolster the military in eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have recently made lightning advances and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu meanwhile put the number at 200,000 as of Tuesday.
- He called on Kherson’s residents to remain calm after his superior, Vladimir Saldo, conceded in an interview that Ukrainian forces had made a “breakthrough” in the region’s north east, at the village of Dudchany along the Dnipro river.
Russian Forces Under Pressure In South Ukraine
