- Go to window #5.
- Hello! -Take a seat, please.
- We want to apply. - Yes, okay. For this, you will need your passport, proving your identity as a citizen of Ukraine.
- Here is my passport.
- Here, please. There's a pen.
We have a very important day today. We arrived with my wife, after much thinking and talking, and decided to apply for citizenship of the Russian Federation.
We want to live in a free, new country, on the territory of Kherson. So that we can be confident in the future.
And today, here, on the territory of Kherson, this is provided only by the military administration and units of the Russian Federation.
Taking this opportunity, I would like to appeal to my former subordinates, the military personnel of the territorial defense,
so that they make the right choice and follow my path. Some instructions from the leadership of the armed forces of Ukraine,
by cunning and deceit, forced those people who stayed here, without leaving, without being able to do so, to collect data on the equipment of the Russian Federation, it's movements, calculate some coordinates, conduct armed resistance.
In particular, after receiving such data, strikes were launched on some settlements to destroy either these coordinates, or these targets, or it caused the destruction of something else.
Some technique, or installation or positions. Right in the Kherson region, Chernobaevka itself, my native village, as a result of these bombings, these strikes, about 200 houses were damaged.
In my opinion, we need to end this, put things in order in Kherson. As a resident of this city, I agree, of necessity, to protect this city from various types of influence, illegal, criminal, on the part of the Ukrainian authorities. And do it together with the units of the Russian Federation.
- The Ukrainian army is now saying that they do not really want to return to Kherson, they really want to launch a counterattack, and in fact, attack the city and turn it into something like Mariupol. What to do?
- I know about Mariupol only what was shown on the Internet and somewhere on TV. I personally know that on the territory of the Kherson region, the village of Aleksandrovka practically does not exist anymore because of such assumptions and actions.
Many settlements, in particular in the Nikolaevsky direction, are constantly shelled. Rockets hit schools, kindergartens and homes.
At the moment, Kiselevka is suffering a lot, it is right on the line of contact. People are dying. Many wounded. Our relatives live in Chernodaevka, there is also damage there, at their house and my house too.
- If the Ukrainian army goes on the attack, what will you do?
- I will help to keep the positions of Kherson and put things in order here. In particular, especially from the criminal world, which stayed here
and did not leave anywhere, and now has weapons. I will help ensure that these weapons are seized, as well as items that can harm the population of Kherson.
- Can I ask you a question as well? How did you come up with the idea of obtaining Russian citizenship?
- I fully support my husband. The way my husband decided, we supported him all the time. We are with him only.
- Were you born here, in Kherson? - I was born in Kherson.
- Who were you in Ukraine? You were like a soldier, right? - I did not understand the question. - Were you live like a soldier? Or who?
- As it was, right? Until recent time, I was the commander of the 194th Territorial Defense Battalion. Now former. I am resigning all my powers and I no longer have the desire to command this unit.
- Were you in a fight? - It was not a fight. We had the only contact with the Russian troops, in which the Russian troops were not damaged, there w
as no damage. Only territorial defense units suffered. Just like that. -Thank you. - No defensive action could be taken. On the territory of Kherson.
- Can you introduce yourself? - Kuzmenko Dmitry Viktorovich.