As of 22 March, "all units of the occupying army deployed in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson Oblast have left the town".
As the General Staff states, this was preceded by searches in the houses of the local population with the aim of looting. The occupiers "confiscated" a large quantity of household appliances and electronic devices, jewellery, clothes and mobile phones.
In a number of other settlements in the temporarily occupied left-bank part of Kherson Oblast, the occupiers have begun searching for civilians with a pro-Ukraine stance. For this, they are using the lists of the participants of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (the operation conducted in the east of Ukraine in 2014-2015 – ed.), retired members of the military and persons who served in law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.
The General Staff also added that the occupiers are conducting defensive operations on the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/03/23/7394796/
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