JUST IN: Russian troops will retreat from the key city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, Russia’s defense minister and top commander in Ukraine announce.
Russia’s defense minister and top commander in Ukraine announced Wednesday that Russian troops will pull back from the key city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
Surovikin said it was a “very difficult decision” and justified it as necessary to save the lives of Russian soldiers and to preserve their capacity for future operations. Kherson is the only regional capital the Russians have occupied since 2014. The city and the surrounding area act as a gateway to Crimea Peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.Brittney Griner, the WNBA star detained in Russia, has been transferred to a penal colony, a move decried by White House officials.
Griner's lawyers said in a statement that she was transferred on Nov. 4 from a detention center in Iksha. She's now on her way to a penal colony in an undisclosed location."We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination," the lawyers, Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said in a statement."In accordance with the standard Russian procedure the attorneys, as well as the U.S.
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