What the withdrawal from Kherson means

Riga, Berlin In the end, everything happened quickly: Russia says it has completed the withdrawal of its troops from the southern Ukrainian city of Cherson and parts of the region. All units, including technology and equipment, were brought to the left bank of the Dnieper River without any losses. Apparently Ukrainian forces are already in the city, as Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko announced on Twitter.

But what does this mean for the further course of the war? Military experts do not believe that the Russian defeat in Kherson marks a turning point in the conflict. On the contrary: from the point of view of the Western military, the front in the Cherson region will not move any further in the near future. “The war is now stuck, no one will get much further now,” said Hans-Lothar Domröse, General a. D. and former commander of a NATO command, the Handelsblatt.