Russia ordered its troops to withdraw from the recently annexed Kherson region in Ukraine, but Kyiv officials remained wary, warning that fleeing troops could leave destruction in their wake by min…
Ukrainian troops pressed forward in the south Thursday after Russia ordered one of the war’s biggest retreats — but Kyiv warned that fleeing enemy troops could still turn Kherson into a “city of death.”
A soldier raises a Ukrainian flag after liberating the village of Kalynivske in the Kherson region Wednesday.Ukrainian soldiers from the 28th brigade say that they are advancing towards Kherson in a video released Thursday.Moscow ordered its troops Wednesday to retreat from the entire Russian-held pocket on the west bank of the Dnipro River, including Kherson city, after a top general reported that the loss of supply routes had made defense “futile.
“This is what ‘Russian world’ looks like: came, robbed, celebrated, killed ‘witnesses’, left ruins and left,” he wrote on Twitter. “We continue to conduct the offensive operation in line with our plan,” he wrote in a post on Telegram. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a day earlier that he believed a retreat was underway, but that Russia had amassed 20,000 to 30,000 troops in Kherson and that a full withdrawal could take several weeks.
The move comes less than two months after Vladimir Putin formally annexed Kherson and three other regions of Ukraine, announcing during a speech that the territories will be “forever” part of Russia.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Russia-Ukraine war: Russians withdrawing from key position in southern Kherson regionThe withdrawal from the city of Kherson is a major setback for Russia -- it is the only regional capital Russian forces had seized during the eight-month war.
Read more »
Russia-Ukraine war: Russians withdrawing from key position in southern Kherson regionThe withdrawal from the city of Kherson is a major setback for Russia -- it is the only regional capital Russian forces had seized during the eight-month war.
Read more »
Russia-Ukraine war: Russians withdrawing from key position in southern Kherson regionThe withdrawal from the city of Kherson is a major setback for Russia -- it is the only regional capital Russian forces had seized during the eight-month war.
Read more »
Russians announce withdrawal from part of Kherson, a key position in southern UkraineRussia's military has announced that it's withdrawing from the western bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, annexed by Moscow in...
Read more »