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Russia's Immediate Backtrack on Kherson 'Regrouping' Raises Questions
Newsweek ^ | 11/13/2023 | Isabel van Brugen

Posted on 11/14/2023 12:07:39 PM PST by marcusmaximus

Russia immediately backtracked on a statement released on Monday that said some of its troops had withdrawn from a key position in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, raising questions about the scale of Moscow's operations in the area.

The Russian Ministry of Defense dismissed its own statements about the "regrouping" of the Dnieper Group of Forces published by state-run news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti as a "provocation", without elaboratinThe term "regrouping" has previously been used by the Kremlin in Russian President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to describe a battlefield retreat by its forces.

Ukraine has been gradually expanding a bridgehead on the Russian-controlled bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson, amid its counteroffensive to recapture its occupied territories.

The ministry was quoted on Monday as saying that the command of the Dnieper Group of Forces decided to transfer troops to more advantageous positions east of the Russian-occupied east bank of the Kherson Oblast. After the regrouping, the military group "will release part of the forces that will be used for an offensive in other directions."

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To: Williams

You’re right, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.


21 posted on 11/14/2023 4:13:35 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: popdonnelly

You are Low IQ.


22 posted on 11/14/2023 5:07:17 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: popdonnelly; Williams; Kazan; All

“Moon of Alabama” is a known Russian propaganda site

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23 posted on 11/14/2023 5:15:12 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: marcusmaximus
The Patrushev is going to deport The Putin’s Muslim concubine Alina Kabaeva back to Uzbekistan.

fixed it for you.

Can't fix the fact that The Patrushev and The Putin are both dying from rare stage 4 elbow cancer...

24 posted on 11/14/2023 6:29:13 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: canuck_conservative
“Moon of Alabama” is a known Russian propaganda site

Waffen-SS propaganda from the Galician Division Canadian.

Please clap, Canadian parliament.

25 posted on 11/14/2023 6:32:28 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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