Russia’s military command is relocating to the left bank of the Dnipro River, according to Natalia Gumenyuk, the spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern command. As a result, Russia will no longer have command centers in the city of Kherson.

“There’s clear evidence that after the strikes we carried out on the occupying troops’ command centers… their command staff is very quickly moving in the direction ‘beyond the bridge’ — in other words, to the left bank — to ensure it’s not cut off from routes to safer territory,” Gumenyuk said on Monday, August 15.

Other Ukrainian officials reported earlier that Russia’s military command was leaving Kherson. On August 13, Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration head Vitaliy Kim wrote in a Telegram post that “the entire command staff [of Russia’s forces in Kherson] is moving beyond the Dnipro.” On August 15, Yuriy Sobolevsky, first deputy head of the Kherson regional council, said that Russia’s military command had “actually left Kherson.”