Berlin So now it is coming after all, the retreat from Cherson. After months of heavy and costly fighting for both sides, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the supreme commander for the Ukraine campaign, Sergei Surovikin, announced their withdrawal on Wednesday afternoon. Specifically: The Russian troops are to withdraw from the occupied areas on the west bank of the Dnieper.
Surovikin stated that the forces should now focus on holding the east bank of the river. There is a risk that the area on the west bank will be flooded and that the Russian troops will be surrounded there.
So far, around 115,000 people have left the region. It is impossible to continue supplying the city of Cherson. He spoke of a “difficult decision”. “We think first of all about the life of every Russian soldier,” claimed Surovikin.
One thing is already certain: This is a major setback and a symbolic defeat for Vladimir Putin, which he did not take lightly.
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