Britain says Russia eyes long-term control of Ukraine’s Kherson

(Reuters) – Russia in all probability goals to exert robust political and financial affect on Ukraine’s southern area of Kherson in the long run, after ruling out its return to Ukrainian management and initiating a foreign money change to the rouble, Britain stated.

“Since seizing … Kherson in early March, Russia has sought to legitimise its management of town and surrounding areas by means of putting in a pro-Russian administration,” the defence ministry stated in a Twitter bulletin on Sunday.

Russia’s enduring management of the area and transport hyperlinks will profit its means to maintain advances to the north and west and enhance its safety management of the close by Crimea, the replace added.

(Reporting by Akriti Sharma in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Clarence Fernandez)