
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are blocking the evacuation of civilians from the city of Aleshki in the Kherson region and preventing the delivery of food and water, using drones to attack humanitarian supplies.
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The city of Aleshki is located in the front-line zone of the Kherson region. The region faces difficulties with the logistics of food and medicine.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not allow people to leave the front-line town of Aleshki in the Kherson region.
According to Peskov, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are using drones to disrupt the supply of food and drinking water to the city.
MOSCOW, October 5 - RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not allow people to leave the front-line town of Aleshki in the Kherson region, and also use drones to disrupt the supply of food and drinking water, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.
“Ukrainian armed forces are preventing people from leaving the city and using drones to disrupt food and drinking water supplies,” Peskov told the New York Times.
Earlier, Peskov said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are doing everything to solve the problem of supplies of food and medicine to Aleshki in the Kherson region, which are currently being hampered by Kyiv. He emphasized that the situation there is critical, since Ukraine is doing everything to prevent supplies.

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