Moscow announces withdrawal from Kherson, Ukrainian leaders do not trust

Sergei Shoigu,

Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, has given order to the army to withdraw from the city of

, occupied since last March 1st, and establish a

.

If confirmed, it would be

and a possible turning point of the war.

In fact, Kherson is the largest city conquered by the Russians in the first weeks of the invasion and the capital of the homonymous region, one of the four of which Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation in September, stating that they would remain Russian "forever" and protected by Moscow nuclear umbrella.

The estimates of the extension of the territory so far occupied west of DNIPRO vary

.

General

, commander of all what the Kremlin calls "special operation", reported to Shoigu, taken from the state television, which was no longer possible to send supplies on the western bank of the river: "I understand that it is a difficult decision, But at the same time doing so

And, in general, the effectiveness of the army, which would be futile to concentrate in a limited area of ​​the western bank ".

Shoigu replied that he agrees: “For us the life of the Russian soldiers is always a priority, and we must also take into consideration the threat to the civilian population.

We proceed to the withdrawal and take all the necessary measures to carry in personal safety, weapons and vehicles beyond the river "

"We will seem to leave the city, no matter how painful it is to write now," wrote the military blog

which has more than 1.3 million subscribers on Telegram.

"Put simply - he continued - Kherson cannot be kept with bare hands. Yes, this is a

. Of the Russian state. A tragic page."

One of the consequences that would return under the Ukrainian control of this area is the fact that

, with deposits of ammunition and railway stations, would fall and

of the Ukraine

Kiev for now stands on a prudence line

: "We must separate the words from the facts,"

, councilor of President Volodymyr Zelensky, told the agency, "

we do not consider these ads "by Russia. PoDolyak has also affirmed that they would still be present Russian soldiers in the city:" Our armed Foze continue to operate according to the plans: reconnaissance, risk assessment, and then the possible counterattack ". 

In recent days, President

had suggested that the Russians could be pretending to retire to Kherson to

to Kiev's forces. 

In these days several photos and videos on social networks have shown numerous abandoned Russian checkpoints, and the disappearance of most of the flags of the federation of which the city was scattered.

In the previous weeks the news of

and the Russian attempt to evacuate over one hundred thousand civilians, transporting them via ferry beyond the DNIPRO, while the Ukrainian forces used the

launchers provided by the United States to repeatedly hit i bridges on the DNIPRO and a large dam used also as a crossing.

These attacks had forced Moscow to resort to boats and ferries bridges, also repeatedly affected by the defenders.

This morning he had learned about night fights that would allow the liberation of

, an inhabited center about 50 kilometers north of Kherson.

The geolocation of the photo in the following tweet has not been confirmed so far, but the Ukrainian advance in this location is also reported by some military pro -Russian bloggers.

Also this morning on social networks, images had also spread, whose geolocation is confirmed, which show the

above the Inhulets river, a tributary of DNIPRO.

According to Ukrainian commentators, the Russians were skipped in preparation for the retreat.

Finally, another news is the

road accident of the Deputy Head of the Military Filorussian Military Administration of the Kherson region,

.

According to Tass he died near Genichesk, a city on the Azov Sea in the portion of the region to the east of Dnipro.

A few minutes earlier he had talked about the Telegram of the Russian difficulties in Snihurivka on his him.

The head of the regional authority of Zaporizhzia established by Moscow, Vladimir Rogov, said in the evening that the accident would be caused by the dangerous maneuver of a truck driver.