The pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region of eastern Ukraine have declared the city of Guenichesk as the new «temporary administrative capital» of the Ukrainian territory, occupied and annexed by Moscow.
This decision follows the withdrawal in recent days of the Russian military from the capital Kherson, on the banks of the Dnieper River, which has been liberated by Ukrainian forces.
Guenichesk is located at the eastern end of Kherson, on the shores of the Sea of Azov and approximately 20 kilometers north of the border of the Crimean peninsula, also annexed by Russia and whose incorporation was ratified in 2014 in a referendum considered, like that of Kherson, as illegal by Ukraine and its allies.
«Currently, the temporary administrative capital of Kherson province is Guenichesk. All the main authorities are concentrated there,» the representative of the pro-Russian administration of Kherson, Alexander Fomin, has confirmed to the Russian agency TASS.
The city of Guenichesk, a major seaport and tourist center in the area, came under Russian control on February 27, three days after its invasion of Ukraine.
