Moscow on Wednesday ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces from the right bank of the Dnieper River in the Ukrainian region of Kherson.
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“I was sure that we were going to free Kherson”, said Wednesday, November 9 on franceinfo Alyona Shkrum, Ukrainian MP, from kyiv. Russia has announced that it has withdrawn its troops from the city of Kherson. For the member, this announcement is not “not a surprise.”
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However, Alyona Shkrum remains cautious: “Ukrainians only believe the actions and not the statements of the Russians, especially when they are made on television. One wonders.” Questions in particular on the veracity of the statements made by Russia. Did Vladimir Putin’s soldiers really leave? “There are all the signs to say that the Russians are not leaving Kherson and that groups of Russian soldiers remain in the city in hiding and that worries us”explains the deputy who still wants to believe it.
“I think there is hope that it is true but he is being careful. We fear a trap, a lie.”
Alyona Shkrum, Ukrainian MP
Kherson “is one of the largest cities taken by the Russians”, it is a city “very strategic for the Crimea and for Putin”, analyzes the elected representative before adding: “We know that the Russians lack means and ‘arms and do not have the necessary forces to hold the occupied territories”. Arguments which therefore allow her to hope “that the Russians will really leave Kherson, because we have created the conditions so that it is not possible for Russia to stay”, she concludes.