KYIV — Are they leaving or not?
This is the question onlookers to Ukraine's eight-month war have been asking about what certainly looks to be a gradual Russian withdrawal from the, a strategic regional capital in Ukraine's south, although no such military retreat has been announced by Moscow.
On Nov. 3, the Russian-installed deputy governor Kirill Stremousov, posted a video insisting that “at the moment, everything is fully under control,” while simultaneously urging all civilians remaining on the west bank of the Dnipro to “evacuate.” As many users on social media pointed out, Stremousov recorded the video pretty obviously mid-flight from the provincial capital, riding in a car clearly filled with enough personal belongings to suggest he wasn’t due back in the near future.
More worrisome that the document telegraphs what some fear may be Moscow’s last resort — a massive attack against the region’s civilian infrastructure, choreographed by Russia but meant to blame the Ukrainians.that the Russians had mined the Kakhovka dam at the hydroelectric plant in Kherson, one of the few remaining routes by which Russians can retreat across the Dnipro.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the publication of the manual comes over a week after Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu floated unfounded claims that Ukraine was— a combination of conventional explosives and uranium — in a phone call with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson accused Shoigu of lying, calling such a suggestion a"pretext for [Russian] escalation," and the U.S.
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