Moscow depicting drawdown of forces near Kyiv as goodwill gesture while Ukraine and allies say Russian forces forced to regroup after suffering heavy losses
Ukrainian presidential adviser Okeksiy Arestovych said Ukrainian troops had retaken more than 30 towns and villages in the region since Russia announced this week it would scale down operations around the capital to focus on battles in the east.
“They are mining all this territory. Houses are mined, equipment is mined, even the bodies of dead people,” he said, without citing evidence.Reuters could not independently verify the allegations. Russia denies targeting civilians in what President Vladimir Putin calls a “special military operation” aimed at demilitarising and “denazifying” Ukraine.
ICRC spokesperson Ewan Watson said the team had not yet reached Mariupol, adding they left the city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday morning and would spend the night en route. “Once again, some potentate, sadly caught up in anachronistic claims of nationalist interests, is provoking and fomenting conflicts, while ordinary people sense the need to build a future that will either be shared or not be at all,” he said during a visit to Malta.
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