In an interview with the Italian publication Corriere della Sera, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Russian troops are “not ready” to withdraw from Kherson.

He stated that “this is disinformation intended to induce us to send troops there from other important areas.”

“Their best-trained soldiers are at their positions, no one left,” Zelenskyy said. “We see it and we don’t believe it,” he added.

However, Ukrainian military intelligence claims that Russia continues to withdraw its “occupational administration” from Kherson region in the south of the country, but reinforces the city with newly mobilized conscripts and suggests that they are being used as “cannon fodder”, reports CNN. .

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, told CNN on Wednesday that “the Russians are trying to remove and take with them all the remnants of their so-called “occupation administration” from the city of Kherson and the surrounding areas. “.

But at the same time, according to Budanov, Russia is “bringing new “cannon fodder” to Kherson from newly mobilized Russian soldiers who are preparing for street battles.”

According to him, Russia “is aware and understands the complexity of its situation, and they do not want to be completely surrounded.”

Follow the latest developments from The 246th day of the war in Ukraine LIVETEXT on HOTNEWS.RO.