{"id":55930,"date":"2023-01-22T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astheworldturns.org\/wdp\/?page_id=55930"},"modified":"2023-01-22T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T19:52:51","slug":"foreign-snipers-sent-to-kill-civilians-near-kherson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/astheworldturns.org\/wdp\/foreign-snipers-sent-to-kill-civilians-near-kherson\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign snipers sent to kill civilians near Kherson"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"55930\" class=\"elementor elementor-55930\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-828efcb elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"828efcb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d56cd35\" data-id=\"d56cd35\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36ddf4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36ddf4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article__header\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Translated from: <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230121\/kherson-1846410807.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230121\/kherson-1846410807.html<\/a><\/p><h1 class=\"article__second-title\">Snipers from the USA and Britain were sent to the island of Big Potemkin, near Kherson to kill residents.<\/h1><div class=\"article__announce\"><div class=\"media\" data-media-tipe=\"ar16x9a\"><div class=\"media__size\"><div class=\"photoview__open\" data-photoview-group=\"1846410807\" data-photoview-src=\"https:\/\/cdnn21.img.ria.ru\/images\/07e7\/01\/15\/1846429395_0:0:3072:2048_1440x900_80_0_1_3b2609da66dba1e87d640aa93023fdff.jpg.webp?source-sid=not_rian_photo\" data-photoview-image-id=\"1846429378\" data-photoview-sharelink=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230121\/kherson-1846410807.html?share-img=1846429378\" data-photoview-shareid=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"US Marine Corps\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnn21.img.ria.ru\/images\/07e7\/01\/15\/1846429395_0:320:3072:2048_1920x0_80_0_0_45e28abfa4040e06117ff126a9298cce.jpg.webp\" sizes=\"(min-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdnn21.img.ria.ru\/images\/07e7\/01\/15\/1846429395_0:320:3072:2048_640x0_80_0_0_454a54226307f5104eb25726452ac44c.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/cdnn21.img.ria.ru\/images\/07e7\/01\/15\/1846429395_0:320:3072:2048_1280x0_80_0_0_8f27334ce547e10b3243b56156bd2b1f.jpg.webp 1280w,https:\/\/cdnn21.img.ria.ru\/images\/07e7\/01\/15\/1846429395_0:320:3072:2048_1920x0_80_0_0_45e28abfa4040e06117ff126a9298cce.jpg.webp 1920w\" alt=\"US Marine Corps - RIA Novosti, 1920, 01\/21\/2023\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-crop-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-crop-width=\"600\" data-crop-height=\"338\" data-source-sid=\"not_rian_photo\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"media__copyright \" data-nosnippet=\"true\"><div class=\"media__copyright-item m-copyright\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>\u00a9 Photo: U.S. Marine Corps \/ Lance Cpl. Manuel alvarado<\/em><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__aggr\" data-visiblepush=\"yes\" data-nosnippet=\"true\"><div class=\"article__aggr-list\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__body js-mediator-article mia-analytics\"><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\"><div class=\"article__text\"><strong>GENICHESK ( Kherson region ), Jan 21 \u2014 RIA Novosti.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"article__text\">American and British mercenaries who were ordered to shoot civilians were abandoned on the island of Bolshoi Potemkin on the Dnieper in the Kherson region, an employee of law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\"><div class=\"article__quote\"><div class=\"article__quote-bg\"><div class=\"article__quote-bg-desk\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__quote-text m-small\" data-text-length=\"314\"><p>&#8220;According to information received from sources in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/organization_Vooruzhennye_sily_Ukrainy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VSU<\/a>, an American-British group of mercenaries, mainly snipers, drove to the island of Bolshoi Potemkin in the Kherson region in order to terrorize the Russian-speaking population &amp; any resulting deaths would then be blamed on the Russian army&#8221;.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"article__quote-share\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\"><div class=\"article__text\">In early January, a video appeared in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in which Ukrainian militants raised the flag of Ukraine, claiming to have forced out the Russian troops &amp; seized control of the island. Subsequently, it was reported that the video was shot in the &#8220;gray zone&#8221;.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"banner\" data-position=\"desktop\"><aside><div class=\"banner m-article-body m-article-desktop\" data-position=\"article_desktop_content-1\" data-changed-id=\"adfox_article_desktop_content-1_1846410807\" data-banner-inserted=\"1\"><div class=\"banner__content\">On January 5th, a RIA Novosti correspondent visited the island, and confirmed that Bolshoi Potemkin is completely under Russian control. One of the military personnel in an interview with the agency also called that Ukrainian video a fake.<\/div><\/div><\/aside><\/div><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"banner\" data-position=\"mobile-1\"><aside><div class=\"banner__hidden\">\u00a0<\/div><\/aside><\/div><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\"><div class=\"article__text\">The situation in <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/location_Kherson_Oblast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kherson region<\/a> remains tense. Since mid-October, authorities evacuated the right-bank regions &amp; moved all 115 thousand people to the left bank of the Dnieper, due to the constant Ukrainian shelling and the risk of flooding in the event the dam at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station was hit. In early November, the Russian command decided to bolster defenses on the left bank of the Dnieper by sending more than 30 thousand military personnel there. Currently, Russia controls 75 percent of the Kherson region, as well as the western part of the Kinburn braids with several settlements that were part of the Nikolaev region under Ukraine. The coast and the city of Kherson are held by Ukrainian forces.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"article__body js-mediator-article mia-analytics\"><div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"article\" data-nosnippet=\"true\" data-article=\"main-photo\"><div class=\"article__article m-image\"><div class=\"article__article-image\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a9b0b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7a9b0b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230121\/ssha-1846404401.html?in=t\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/astheworldturns.org\/wdp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1840736205_0_256_3186_2048_1920x0_80_0_0_2dc9d0ba4bf2e14bbbfbc17d2477241d.jpg.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-55926\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astheworldturns.org\/wdp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1840736205_0_256_3186_2048_1920x0_80_0_0_2dc9d0ba4bf2e14bbbfbc17d2477241d.jpg.webp 756w, https:\/\/astheworldturns.org\/wdp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1840736205_0_256_3186_2048_1920x0_80_0_0_2dc9d0ba4bf2e14bbbfbc17d2477241d.jpg-350x197.webp 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated from: https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230121\/kherson-1846410807.html Snipers from the USA and Britain were sent to the island of Big Potemkin, near Kherson to kill residents. \u00a9 Photo: U.S. Marine Corps \/ Lance Cpl. Manuel alvarado\u00a0GENICHESK ( Kherson region ), Jan 21 \u2014 RIA Novosti.\u00a0American and British mercenaries who were ordered to shoot civilians were abandoned on the island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55932,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-55930","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Foreign snipers sent to kill civilians near Kherson - as the world turns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Translated from: https:\/\/ria.ru\/20230121\/kherson-1846410807.htmlSnipers from the USA and Britain were sent to the island of Big Potemkin, near Kherson to kill residents.\u00a9 Photo: U.S. Marine Corps \/ Lance Cpl. Manuel alvarado\u00a0GENICHESK ( Kherson region ), Jan 21 \u2014 RIA Novosti.\u00a0American and British mercenaries who were ordered to shoot civilians were abandoned on the island of Bolshoi Potemkin on the Dnieper in the Kherson region, an employee of law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.\u00a0&quot;According to information received from sources in\u00a0VSU, an American-British group of mercenaries, mainly snipers, drove to the island of Bolshoi Potemkin in the Kherson region in order to terrorize the Russian-speaking population &amp; any resulting deaths would then be blamed on the Russian army&quot;.\u00a0In early January, a video appeared in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in which Ukrainian militants raised the flag of Ukraine, claiming to have forced out the Russian troops &amp; seized control of the island. 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Manuel alvarado\u00a0GENICHESK ( Kherson region ), Jan 21 \u2014 RIA Novosti.\u00a0American and British mercenaries who were ordered to shoot civilians were abandoned on the island of Bolshoi Potemkin on the Dnieper in the Kherson region, an employee of law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.\u00a0&quot;According to information received from sources in\u00a0VSU, an American-British group of mercenaries, mainly snipers, drove to the island of Bolshoi Potemkin in the Kherson region in order to terrorize the Russian-speaking population &amp; any resulting deaths would then be blamed on the Russian army&quot;.\u00a0In early January, a video appeared in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in which Ukrainian militants raised the flag of Ukraine, claiming to have forced out the Russian troops &amp; seized control of the island. 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Manuel alvarado\u00a0GENICHESK ( Kherson region ), Jan 21 \u2014 RIA Novosti.\u00a0American and British mercenaries who were ordered to shoot civilians were abandoned on the island of Bolshoi Potemkin on the Dnieper in the Kherson region, an employee of law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.\u00a0\"According to information received from sources in\u00a0VSU, an American-British group of mercenaries, mainly snipers, drove to the island of Bolshoi Potemkin in the Kherson region in order to terrorize the Russian-speaking population &amp; any resulting deaths would then be blamed on the Russian army\".\u00a0In early January, a video appeared in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in which Ukrainian militants raised the flag of Ukraine, claiming to have forced out the Russian troops &amp; seized control of the island. 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Manuel alvarado\u00a0GENICHESK ( Kherson region ), Jan 21 \u2014 RIA Novosti.\u00a0American and British mercenaries who were ordered to shoot civilians were abandoned on the island of Bolshoi Potemkin on the Dnieper in the Kherson region, an employee of law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.\u00a0\"According to information received from sources in\u00a0VSU, an American-British group of mercenaries, mainly snipers, drove to the island of Bolshoi Potemkin in the Kherson region in order to terrorize the Russian-speaking population &amp; any resulting deaths would then be blamed on the Russian army\".\u00a0In early January, a video appeared in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in which Ukrainian militants raised the flag of Ukraine, claiming to have forced out the Russian troops &amp; seized control of the island. 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