Ukrainian army enters Kherson after Russian troops withdraw, Kyiv hails ‘important victory’

Ukrainian Foreign Minister on Friday praised ‘Important victory’After the announcement of the Russian withdrawal from the north of the occupied Kherson region since the beginning of March. “Ukraine is on its way to another important victory right now and proves that whatever Russia says or does, Ukraine will win.”confirms in Twitter Dmytro Koleba.

The head of the Ukrainian diplomacy published a video showing, he said, the residents of Belozerka, a town located a few kilometers from Kherson, in the process of tearing down a poster declaring Russia is here forever.. The Verkhovna Rada, the Verkhovna Rada, also published photos of civilians waving Ukrainian flags in Kherson. The Ukrainian army did not announce its entry into the city, the capital of the region of the same name. At the beginning of the afternoon, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it was over at 5 a.m. (3 a.m. in Paris). “redeploy” Units from the right bank of the Dnieper, where Kherson is located, to the left bank, ensuring that they do not suffer any loss or leave military equipment.

This major withdrawal is the third since the invasion began, on February 24, after Russia surrendered in the spring to seize Kyiv, before in September ceding almost all of the Kharkiv region, in the northeast.