Russia evacuates occupied Ukrainian city, orders martial law

 That's bad, no? Martial law? I think somehow that's worse than occupation.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched mass evacuations of civilians Wednesday from Kherson, one of the first major cities they seized in the invasion of Ukraine, a tacit acknowledgement that yet another stinging battlefield defeat may be unfolding for President Vladimir Putin.

Well, we like Russian stinging battlefield defeats but what are they doing evacuating masses of Ukrainian civilians?

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What had previously been a trickle of evacuations from the city in recent days was becoming a flood. Residents could be seen on Russian state television crowding on the Dnieper’s banks, many with small children, to cross by boats to the east — and, from there, deeper into Russian-controlled territory. 

Russia has kidnapped Ukrainian children before and taken them to Rus, a futile attempt to improve the genetic stock of the anthropoids.

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Moscow-backed authorities have said evacuations from occupied territories are voluntary. But in many cases, the only routes out are to Russia.

Right, so I don't know why this is a stinging battlefield defeat. Was it a defeat for the Nazis when they emptied the Warsaw ghetto and sent the Jews to Auschwitz?

“It’s better to evacuate people in case the fighting starts to involve artillery shelling and bombing of the city, and that’s what we are doing now,” said Vladimir Saldo, the region’s Moscow-installed head.

Okay, that is game, set, and match for me that it is not better for the Ukrainian civilians.