"United Russia" blocked the request of State Duma deputies from the Communist Party faction to the Ministry of Defense with a demand to explain the abandonment of Kherson by Russian troops. This was announced by the deputy of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergey Obukhov in the Telegram channel.
Obukhov suggested that United Russia was not interested in the problem of "surrendering the territory", while many voters were "shocked" by this news. He noted that 193 deputies voted "against", four "United Russia" supported the initiative – deputies Daniil Bessarabov, Nikolai Valuev, Alexander Sholokhov and Ruslan Gadzhiev.
“Deputies from the Communist Party faction prepared a protocol instruction to the Ministry of Defense with a request for clarification and detailed information from the Ministry of Defense about this so-called “maneuver” and its possible consequences. And these consequences, as indicated in the protocol order, can be really fatal for the outcome of the SVO. For example, from the obvious. The armed forces of the Kyiv regime will have the opportunity to approach the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and discharge the water of the Kakhovka reservoir, forcing the Russian troops to move away from the low left bank of the Dnieper River, which is being equipped for a new defense.
Following this, they will be threatened as soon as the notorious “Hymarses”, a land corridor to the Crimea and the supply of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant are installed there. As a result, everything can come to the point that we will be forced to defend the Crimea and solve all those economic and economic problems that we have only relatively recently solved thanks to the filling of the North Crimean Canal with Dnieper water.”
The rest of the "seemingly opposition factions", according to Obukhov, decided not to vote. The deputy expressed the opinion that neither the Liberal Democratic Party nor the New People are interested in information on the surrender of Kherson. In the SRZP, all deputies, with the exception of two abstentions, also did not vote.
“There was Kherson – and it is not. "United Russia" and a variety of cardboard opposition is not very worried.
On the evening of November 9, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Surovikin instructed to withdraw Russian troops across the Dnieper River. Surovikin himself in a statement argued that Kherson could not be supplied and function. “The most appropriate option is to organize defense along the barrier line of the Dnieper River,” he said.