Ukraine’s president says that special military units have entered the city of Kherson. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the announcement Friday in a video address hours after Russia said it…
By HANNA ARHIROVA and JOHN LEICESTER
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its troops finished withdrawing from the western bank of the river that divides Ukraine’s Kherson region at 5 a.m. The area they left included the city of Kherson, the only provincial capital Russia had captured during its nearly nine-month invasion of Ukraine. The final Russian withdrawal came six weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed the Kherson region and three other Ukrainian provinces, vowing they would remain Russian forever.
Putin has so far been silent about Kherson, despite making several public appearances since the withdrawal was announced. Some quarters of the Ukrainian government barely disguised their glee at the pace of the Russian withdrawal. Gen. Ben Hodges, former commanding general of U.S. Army forces in Europe, described the retreat from Kherson as a “colossal failure” for Russia, and said he expects Ukrainian commanders will keep pressure on Russia’s depleted forces ahead of a possible future push for Crimea next year.
Mamontov said he found “nothing there” when he opened the door to look for his mother after the missile struck. Friday was her 34th birthday.
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