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The announcement marks one of Russia's most significant retreats and another humiliating setback for Vladimir Putin.
Kherson city, which had a pre-war population of 280,000, was seized by Russia early in the war and remains the only regional capital to have fallen.Kherson region was annexed in September, along with three other Ukrainian regions - Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia.Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has said a number of times that the return of all occupied territory is a condition for any peace talks with Russia, but Russia is unlikely to agree to this.
"Until the Ukrainian flag is flying over Kherson, it makes no sense to talk about a Russian withdrawal."It is still too early to talk about the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kherson: a grouping of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is being maintained in the city, and additional manpower is being pulled into the region."
He added:"Our armed forces work according to their plan: reconnaissance, risk assessment, effective counterattack."
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