Russia’s state media are casting the retreat from Ukraine’s Kherson as necessary to regroup, while conservative hard-liners condemn the loss of the city
President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization of ordinary citizens to fight in Ukraine triggered a mass exodus from Russia, protests and a backlash over the deaths of reservists. But Russian state media offers a different version of the story as it tries to reassure the population.
MOSCOW—The Kremlin’s propaganda machine has put on a brave face over Russia’s retreat from Kherson, its biggest setback of the war since invading Ukraine in February.is a potentially serious blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military objectives. Kherson sits around 100 miles north of the Crimean Peninsula, home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, and dominates the mouth of the strategic Dnipro River, a crucial waterway running through the center of Ukraine.
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