Russia's Defence Ministry says it's pulling back its troops from 2 areas in the Kharkiv region.
Ukraine claims gains in Kharkiv region as Russia says it will regroup troops elsewhereRemnants of a destroyed tank are seen in Balakliya, Ukraine, on Saturday. Russia's Defence Ministry announced Saturday that it's pulling back troops from two areas in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region — Balakliya being one of them — where a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made significant advances in the past week.
"The Russian army in these days is demonstrating the best that it can do — showing its back," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video released by his office Saturday night. "And, of course, it's a good decision for them to run." Igor Girkin, a Russian who was an early leader of a Moscow-backed separatist uprising in Donetsk in 2014, sneered at the portrayal of the pullback being strategic. On the messaging app Telegram, he called it "the brilliant operation to transfer the cities of Izyum, Balakliya and Kupiansk to respected Ukrainian partners."
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