Posted on 11/11/2022 6:18:03 AM PST by Salohcin
Russia said Friday it had completed its withdrawal of forces from the southern city of Kherson, two days after Moscow said it had made the "difficult decision" to pull back amid Ukrainian advances.
"Today at 5 o'clock in the morning Moscow time, the transfer of Russian troops to the left bank of the Dnipro River was completed," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Telegram.
“There was no loss of personnel, weapons and military equipment,” the ministry said, adding civilians “were assisted in the evacuation.”
Following the withdrawal, the Kremlin said that the city of Kherson was still part of Russia, as Moscow claimed to have annexed the Kherson region in September.
"This is a subject of the Russian Federation. There are no changes in this and there cannot be changed," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Russia announced Wednesday it was withdrawing its forces from Kherson due to its inability to supply Russian forces there, abandoning the only Ukrainian regional capital it has captured in its nearly nine-month invasion.
The decision to pull back to the left bank of the Dnipro River came after months of intense fighting in the area, with Ukrainian troops making incremental gains against a large Russian force.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Kyiv's forces had recaptured over 40 towns and villages in southern Ukraine as Russia retreated.
Moscow declared its annexation of four partially occupied Ukrainian regions — Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk — after holding widely disputed referendums in each region.
The annexation was rejected by Kyiv and widely condemned by Western countries.
AFP contributed reporting.
Incessant banging of the same meme over and over and over, day after day, after day.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/kherson/index?tab=articles
Winning! /s
That River will logically wind up as the boundary.
R-E-T-R-E-A-T
None at all.
Simply pointing out that for a few weeks there, you peddlers had nothing to post up but garbo, and now that you think optics and PR wins equate to an actual win, you all are back to your incessant day after day after day after day posting of the same “winning” shat.
Simple as that.
Ukraine back in Khereson!!!
Slava Ukraine!!!!
Hey mariner:
There were some Ukrainian advocates and agents on FR that were convinced Ukraine would take back Kherson any day now.
They won’t. They’ll never possess it again.
1 posted on 8/17/2022, 12:11:58 PM by Mariner
Liberating Kherson was just PR and optics? I do believe that you’ve outdone even Baghdad Bob with that one.
What’s up with the propaganda cartoon? I though you just said that PR doesn’t win wars?
Orderly withdrawal by the bulk of Russian forces in Kherson says it all.
At this point we may be China’s puppet and we are fighting Russia as their proxy.
That illustration is not PR, it is truth.
Yes, it says R E T R E A T !!!!!!
“At this point we may be China’s puppet and we are fighting Russia as their proxy.”
You got me there. Indeed.
It says whatever the media wants it to say.
It has more appeal to its pro-Ukrainian readers, such as you knuckleheads, than writing ‘withdrawal’.
NO! This is a “RuZZian source!”
It must be soviet propaganda. Don’t believe it... /s
Can't resupply Kherson in winter.
Has Ukraine occupied Kherson?
Russia is saying it’s still part of Russia.
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