Vladimir Putin has publicly backed evacuating civilians from Kherson amid hopes that his forces will soon be forced to retreat from the city.
of the Dnipro river and last week expanded the evacuation zone to include a nine-mile buffer area on the east bank.A 24-hour curfew was imposed on Kherson on Friday, while pictures online show the Russian flag no long flies on its main administration building.A howitzer is fired at points controlled by Russian troops in Kherson Ukraine fears their troops could be lured into a trap by Russia
Kyiv has been wary, saying such signs could be Russian deception to lure Ukrainian troops into a trap. Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-installed administration in Kherson, said he hoped there would be no retreat but ‘we have to take some very difficult decisions’. Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky said the fiercest fighting last week was around Bakhmut and Soledar, in the eastern Donetsk region about 310 miles north-east of Kherson.He accused Russia of stubbornness for sending ‘tens or hundreds of thousands more people to the meat grinder’.
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