The withdrawal is 'one of the few admissions by the Russian states that the war is not going well,' the director of the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute said.
The announcement came from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who said that the withdrawal decision was made with the recommendation of General Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russia's forces in Ukraine. In relinquishing Kherson, Russian troops will retreat from the city to the eastern bank of the Dnipro River. It was not immediately clear if the order has already been fully carried out.
"The decision to defend on the left bank of the Dnipro is not easy, but at the same time we will save the lives of our military personnel and the combat capability of our forces," Surovikin said in televised remarks Wednesday, according toKherson was the only regional capital Russia had managed to capture in the Ukraine war, seizing the city just days after Putin launched his invasion on February 24.
He said he believes that this is a"very serious defeat" for the Russian president and that the withdrawal is"one of the few admissions by the Russian states that the war is not going well."that it will be a"significant political blow" to Russia if Ukraine manages to capture a large number of Russian forces, such as 1,000 to 2,000 troops, amid the withdrawal.
The only way that Russia might be able to ease the political blow of losing Kherson would be to withdraw in a way that prevents Ukraine from capturing many of its personnel, Courtney said. "But the Russians have already committed the major blunder, which is to annex territory, a region capital, which it's going to lose," he said.
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