After the viral footage of the joy of the local residents of the city of Kherson, who met the soldiers of the Armed Forces with tears, and then burst into real cheers, The new footage shows how the Ukrainians began to clean up the symbols left by the Russians.

Some Ukrainians began to paint the entrance to the city in Ukrainian colors, covering the red, white and blue left by the Russians, and on the Antonivskyi Bridge, Ukrainian soldiers fired machine guns at the Russian flag flying on a pole.

In other parts of the city, Ukrainians were manually peeling off the panels pasted by the Russians.

For Russia, the liberation of Kherson was the worst defeat on the battlefield, after the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Moscow had withdrawn about 30,000 troops.

The exit comes six weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the “annexation” of Kherson and three other regions at a large ceremony in Moscow.

“Russia’s worst military defeat since 1991”. Russian state television is silent about the exit of Kherson, a wave of criticism overwhelmed patriotic channels

If on Russian television there is little talk about the withdrawal of Vladimir Putin’s troops from Kherson, which became a “historic day”, as Volodymyr Zelenskyi estimated, propagandists strongly comment on the information in Telegram channels, and Russian bloggers condemn the decision. , notes Medusa.

Several Russian TV channels “Pervyi Kanal”, “Rossiya 1” and NTV showed in their news broadcasts on Wednesday evening the official ten-minute video of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, in which General Serhii Surovikin reports to Minister Sergei Shoigu about the need to “regroup forces and occupy the defense on the left bank of the Dnieper”. .

The First channel and “Russia 1” also broadcast reports on how residents of the Kherson region, who left there after calls from the authorities imposed from Moscow, received certificates for apartments in the Stavropol Territory.

On the other hand, the withdrawal from Kherson was widely discussed in the Telegram channels of Russian journalists loyal to the Kremlin.

Many of them noted in their posts that the decision to leave the city was correct and saved the lives of a large number of fighters, and also noted that miscalculations of the previous command led to such a decision.

At the same time, many pro-government bloggers expressed their own detailed assessment of the situation, complaining that in the eyes of the population the surrender of Kherson would be a “defeat”, and some openly criticized the actions of the Russian army and even called the withdrawal “treason”.

The main award for Vladimir Putin was the city of Kherson. Why the departure of the Russians is a strong blow for the leader of the Kremlin

Russia’s announcement of the completion of its withdrawal from the key city of Kherson and surrounding areas is one of the most important moments in the war launched by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine on February 24, CNN writes. Kherson was the only regional capital of Ukraine captured by Russian forces after the February invasion, a major prize for the Kremlin leader.

The withdrawal of Russian troops to the east, across the Dnipro River, means the ceding of significant territories that Russia has occupied since the beginning of the war and which President Vladimir Putin officially declared Russian territory only five weeks ago.

The region in southern Ukraine was one of the main targets of the Russian military in the early days of the invasion, its occupation being vital for the Russians to advance towards Mykolaiv and Odesa, the two most important cities in the south of the country.

While Russian troops retreated, Ukrainian troops advanced cautiously amid warnings from Kyiv that the Russians had left traps. Ukraine’s military said Friday that Russia is destroying critical infrastructure as it retreats by shelling territory recently cleared of new defensive positions on the east bank of the Dnipro River, CNN reported.

On Friday, the main bridge over the Dnipro River, connecting the city of Kherson with the eastern part of the region, collapsed, complicating any attempts by Ukrainians to pursue Russians fleeing across the river.

Although the Kremlin tried to present Kherson’s departure in the best possible light, it is undoubtedly a humiliating setback for President Vladimir Putin. Although the Kremlin spokesman insisted on Friday that the Kherson region remains part of Russia, the facts on the ground tell a different story, CNN reports.

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