Acting governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, said that the Kyiv authorities had entered a "new phase of military-political hysteria" Saldo stressed that the Russian military should be ready to repel air attacks and ground provocations. Earlier, a former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, Oleg Soskin, said an internal front is being built in Ukraine against President Volody myr Zelensky because of the incompetence and failures of his government.