Russia-Ukraine War Update: Russia is now seen on the back foot in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Russia announced on Friday (11 November) that its troops had completed their withdrawal from the Ukrainian city of Kherson. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had withdrawn troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River. Russian news media TASS has confirmed this.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, but Russia’s announcement appears to contradict Ukrainian reports that thousands of Russian troops are still on the west side of the river. The Ukrainian military has also said that Russian troops have laid dozens of landmines there before leaving Kherson.
Ukraine does not trust
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksey Reznikov told Reuters news agency on Thursday that it would take at least a week for Russia to get out of Kherson. He estimated that 40,000 Russian troops are still in the area, and intelligence suggests that Russian forces remain in and around the city.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address on Thursday night that Ukrainian forces had liberated 41 settlements as they advanced south, freeing a city from Russian military control in a nearly nine-month war. To denotes the fastest action.
The Governor of Kherson shared the video
Kherson Governor Yaroslav Yanushevik posted a video on Telegram showing Ukrainian soldiers waving Ukrainian flags and passing through a liberated village of Blahodtne, about 20 km (12 miles) from the outskirts of Kherson.
In the village of Posad Pokrovskiy, about 12 km (7 mi) behind completely ruined buildings and a completely destroyed truck on the highway to Kherson, in the village of Posad Pokrovskiy, is standing and hoisting the Ukrainian flag above a bus stop. It was visible, which has bullet holes on it.
In Kherson, houses and buildings on both sides of the road have been destroyed by the shelling of soldiers. Broken branches of trees are seen hanging on the highway and Ukrainian soldiers with military vehicles are seen waving flags as they cross the city.
Increasing threat to the Russian army
At the same time, Ukraine says that many Russian forces are still on the west bank of Dnipro, so Moscow must figure out how to avoid an attack by advancing Ukrainian troops and cross the river. Because the bridge already built on the Dnipro river has been damaged. The only road leading from Kherson to the Russian-controlled east bank of the Dnipro River has now collapsed. This could now make it difficult for Russian soldiers to flee while it could also be difficult to stop Ukrainian soldiers from pursuing them.
Ukraine’s biggest victory is Russia’s withdrawal from Kherson
It is the third major withdrawal of Russian troops and the first to leave a majorly occupied city in the midst of the war that broke out between Russia and Ukraine in February. Moscow’s forces were driven out of the capital Kyiv in March and removed from the northeastern region of Kharkiv and now from Kharkiv in September. Kherson province is one of four cities that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to be annexed from Ukraine in late September.
It is like ending Putin’s dream of Russian troops occupying the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine. Ukrainian military analyst Yuri Butusov said the city of Kherson was within range of Ukrainian artillery. Firing is taking place in the area of the river crossing, where Russian troops are said to be present, Butusov said explosives experts are going to destroy thousands of landmines that Russian soldiers have built.
Russia wanted to make Kherson a city of death
In his address, President Zelensky said that 170,000 square km (66,000 sq mi) of mines remained to be mined, where the enemy had laid landmines before their return as seen in Kherson. At the same time, an adviser to President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Thursday that Russia wanted to turn Kherson into a “city of death”, so it has laid landmines everywhere from apartments to sewers, and they built the city from the other side of the Dnipro River. had planned to enter.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister said – When will the war end, do not know
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Reznikov told Reuters he did not know when the war would end, but it was clear to him how it would end. This would be a victory for Ukraine. This will happen when we are in a position to annex or liberate all Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories along the 1991 borders, including Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk.