China News Service, April 5. According to comprehensive foreign media reports, on the 4th local time, a senior U.S. defense official said that Russia has redeployed about two-thirds of its troops around Kyiv, and many of them will be carried out in Belarus. integration.
The Russian military is expected to reequip and resupply these units and redeploy them to other parts of Ukraine.
The U.S. estimated that before the withdrawal, fewer than 20 battalion-level tactical groups were focused on Kyiv, which is less than one-sixth the number of battalion-level tactical groups Russia has deployed, the Defense Department official said.
The latest intelligence from the British Ministry of Defense also shows that Russian troops are currently withdrawing from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in northern Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops have retaken key areas in the north of the country, intelligence said.
Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Mariar also posted on social media on the 2nd that Ukraine has regained control of the capital Kyiv region.
This is the first time that Ukraine has claimed full control of the capital region since Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.
Earlier, after concluding face-to-face talks in Istanbul on March 29, Russia said it would take both military and political steps to ease the conflict with Ukraine.
On the military front, the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to significantly reduce military activities in Kyiv and Chernihiv to strengthen mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations.