BREAKING NEWS: First Ukrainian city falls: Mayor of Kherson tells residents to follow the orders of Russian soldiers

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BREAKING NEWS: First Ukrainian city falls: Mayor of Kherson tells residents to follow the orders of Russian soldiers as US officials warn Putin is shifting towards a 'slow annihilation' of the country

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com
19:42 EST 02 Mar 2022 , updated 19:59 EST 02 Mar 2022

- Kherson, home to 290,000 people, 300 miles south of Kyiv, on Wednesday became the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian forces
- Ihor Kolykhaiev, mayor of Kherson, wrote on Facebook that residents should obey 'armed people who came to the city's administration'
- Kolykhaiev said that a group of about 10 armed Russian officers, including the commander of forces attacking the city, entered the city hall building
- The Russians said that they were planning to set up a new administration similar to those in two Russian-backed separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine
- Kherson is a strategically-important city on an inlet from the Black Sea, 260 miles west of the edge of the Donetsk
- The first major city in Ukraine has fallen to the Russians, the mayor confirmed on Wednesday, urging his residents on Facebook to obey 'armed people who came to the city's administration

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