Russian forces are likely to abandon their foothold on the west bank of Ukraine's Dnipro River, a Russian-installed occupation official said on Thursday, a Russian retreat that, if confirmed, would be a major turning point in the war, APA reports citing Reuters.
There was no immediate Ukrainian response to the announcement of what would amount to one of Russia's most humiliating retreats since the invasion in February, just weeks after Moscow claimed to have annexed the area.
"Most likely our units, our soldiers, will leave for the left (eastern) bank," Kirill Stremousov, the Russian-installed deputy civilian administrator of the Kherson region, said in an interview with Solovyov Live, a pro-Kremlin online media outlet.
Russia has fought for months to hang on to the pocket of land it holds on the west bank of the river that bisects Ukraine, and had sent tens of thousands of troops to reinforce the area, making it one of Moscow's biggest priorities.
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