In a video address hours after Russia said it had completed withdrawing troops from Ukraine's strategically key city of Kherson, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that special military units had entered the city.
He added that the Kremlin doesn’t regret holding festivities just over a month ago to celebrate the annexation of occupied or partially occupied regions of Ukraine, deferring all questions about the Kherson withdrawal to the Defense Ministry.Putin has so far been silent about Kherson, despite making several public appearances since the withdrawal was announced.
Some quarters of the Ukrainian government barely disguised their glee at the pace of the Russian withdrawal. “It’s too early to be planning the victory parade, for sure. But I would expect by the end of this year — so in the next, let’s say, eight weeks — the Ukrainians are going to be in place to start setting the conditions for the decisive phase of this campaign, which is the liberation of Crimea, which I think will happen by the summer,” he said in a telephone interview.
“My mind was blank at that moment. I thought it could not be true,” he said. “The cake she prepared for the celebration is still there.”
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