The russian defense minister he ordered his troops on Wednesday withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Kherson (south), in the face of a vast Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“Proceed to withdraw the soldiers,” the minister said on television, Sergei Shoigu, to the general Sergei Surovikin, commander of the Russian Operations In Ukraine, who admitted that the decision to retreat to the right bank of the Dnieper River was “not easy at all”.
