Ukrainian forces are reportedly reclaiming dozens of settlements as they advance towards Kherson in southern Ukraine, where occupying forces are said to have blown up bridges to slow the Kyiv counterattack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff on Friday morning mocked Russia’s humiliating retreat from the occupied city of, the only regional capital Moscow had captured since the invasion began.
“The Russian army leaves the battlefield in triathlon mode: running with obstacles, long jumps, swimming,” Andriy Yermak wrote. Moscow on Wednesday announced it had ordered its troops to withdraw from the west bank of the
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