Russia to withdraw troops from key city of Kherson
Gen Surovikin said the withdrawal, ordered by the defence minister was a difficult decisionRussia's military has been ordered to pull out of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, the only regional capital it captured after invading in February.
President Vladimir Putin did not take part in the staged event. The architect of Russia's failing war in Ukraine appeared to have left the announcement to his generals. Russian forces swept across southern Ukraine from annexed Crimea at the start of the war, seizing Kherson city in early March. There is no way for Moscow to depict this withdrawal as anything other than a humiliating setback - its biggest loss since Ukraine recaptured large areas around the city of Kharkiv in the early autumn.
Finally, the pattern emerging in this war is that every time Russia suffers a major military setback it responds by further punishing the civilian population.Media caption,The withdrawal was announced shortly after Russian media saidSeen as one of the main cheerleaders of the occupation of Kherson, he had warned only six days ago that it was "most likely" that Russian forces would have to cross to the eastern bank.
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