Russian troops ordered to retreat from Kherson in face of Ukrainian advance
by Peter Beaumont and Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#65MRQ)
Loss of only regional capital captured by Moscow since invasion began will come as significant blow to Vladimir Putin
The Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has ordered the country's troops to leave an area including Ukraine's city of Kherson, the only regional capital captured by Moscow since the February invasion.
A Ukrainian victory in in the city, one of the main objectives of Kyiv's southern offensive, would be widely seen as a significant blow to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, only weeks after a high-profile ceremony in Moscow in which he announced the forever" annexation of the Kherson region, along with three others.
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