Joyous Ukrainians took to Kherson City’s town square chanting, “Glory to Ukraine!” while welcoming a vanguard of liberating troops as Russia’s forces seemingly pulled out of…
Joyous Ukrainians took to Kherson City’s town square chanting, “Glory to Ukraine!” while welcoming a vanguard of liberating troops as Russia’s forces seemingly pulled out of the strategic capital ahead of Kyiv’s advance.
“As of now, our defenders are approaching the city. But special units are already in the city. The people of Kherson were waiting. They never gave up on Ukraine,” he said.Video from Kherson’s central square Friday showed dozens of Ukrainians celebrating, chanting victory slogans. Soldiers snapped selfies with the crowd, and two men hoisted a female soldier up onto their shoulders.
Kherson City, a shipbuilding port on the Dnipro River, sits on the west bank — in what had been a rapidly dwindling pocket of Russian-controlled territory. But Russian forces have largely fallen back to the river’s east bank, where they have reportedly been fortifying and mining for weeks.
Kherson — capital of the Ukrainian province of the same name — was of both symbolic and strategic importance to the Kremlin, which had made it a central part of its efforts to claim Ukraine as Russian territory.
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