Russian Defense Ministry claimed that not a single serviceman, piece of military equipment or weapon was left on the right bank of the Dnipro River. This statement is false; Russia left weapons, military equipment and even a few soldiers.
“The Russians were left at the end with barges ferrying supplies, equipment, and reinforcements from the east to the west bank. … but the ferry system was in any case insufficient to supply the 20,000-some Russian mechanized troops trying to hold their lodgment on the western bank of the river,”Ukraine’s enhanced weaponry also complicated the Russian pullout.
According to the villagers, the Russians withdrew in trucks without a fight on November 9. Ukrainian troops entered the next day to find the abandoned weapons and ammunition. Russian servicemen in civilian clothes were seen in different districts of Kherson, the National Resistance Center of the Armed Forces of UkraineThe Center said these soldiers were left behind; some hid their uniforms and identifying gear in trash cans but kept their weapons. The Center suggested that these stragglers might try to create the false impression that the local population was resisting Ukraine's liberation of Kherson.
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