Breaking news: Ukraine announced on Friday that its troops were spreading out in the southern city of Kherson and retaking control of the regional capital from Russian forces after months of fighting.
The Ukrainian announcement came soon after Russia said Friday that its troops had finished withdrawing from the west bank of the Dnieper River in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, claiming that no soldiers or military equipment were left behind.would mark a major military setback for the Kremlin in Ukraine and a blow to its efforts to consolidate its grip over swaths of the country’s south.
Friday’s withdrawal came sooner than Western officials had forecast. U.S. Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted Tuesday that a Russian pullout from the city in southern Ukrainian would take “days and maybe even weeks.” Ukrainian officials had also expressed skepticism that Russia could withdraw quickly from Kherson.
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