The first deputy head of the administration of President Vladimir Putin, Serhiy Kiriyenko, visited the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Kherson, the Russian-appointed governor of Crimea said, Reuters reports.

The leader of the self-proclaimed “LPR” Leonid Pasechnyk, the leader of the “DNR” Denys Pushylin and the first deputy head of the Administration of the President of Russia Serhii Kirienko.Photo: AP / AP / Profimedia

Kiriyenko, the former head of Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned atomic energy corporation, visited a ferry port where people were being evacuated on the right bank of the Dnieper ahead of an expected Ukrainian offensive, said Serhii Aksyonov, head of Russia’s illegally annexed Crimea. in 2014.

“The activity of organizing the departure of residents has been completed,” Aksyonov said.

According to him, Kiriyenko also visited the Zaporizhzhya NPP and talked with the staff of the facility.

Kiriyenko is one of the most influential officials in the Kremlin, along with Putin’s chief of staff, Anton Vaino.

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