Kyiv says its forces have retaken 41 villages and towns in the region since October 1st
“The number of these people is not known,” he said, without citing evidence for the assertion. He urged local residents to stay at home while Ukrainian troops cleared the city.
The chaotic retreat across the Dnipro river, conducted under Ukrainian artillery fire, means Russia has now surrendered the only provincial capital it captured in the war, as well as ceding key strategic positions. It comes just weeks after Putin announced the annexation of Kherson and three other southeastern Ukrainian provinces in a lavish Kremlin ceremony.
As of Friday, neither Ukraine nor Russia had taken credit for conducting a strike on the bridge. Kyiv’s forces had previously hit the bridge using precision western missiles to disrupt Russian supply lines supporting its occupation of Kherson. Losing control of the city — where occupation authorities had put up billboards proclaiming that “Russia is here forever!” — is the latest in a string of failures for the Russian military, outnumbered in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive armed with advanced western weapons.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, told reporters on Friday that Russia would not relinquish its claims to Kherson. “It’s a region of the Russian Federation. This status is determined by and enshrined in law,” he said.
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