The Russian army said Friday it was evacuating “more than 5,000 civilians” from the Moscow-occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine each day, as Kyiv’s forces press a counter-offensive to retake the territory.

“Military engineers every day transport up to 1,200 civilian vehicles — both trucks and cars — as well as more than 5,000 civilians to the left bank of the Dnipro river,” Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement.

Source: National News Agency