Russia announces the withdrawal of its troops from the occupied Kherson region


Kherson is one of the occupied regions that Russia illegally annexed last SeptemberThe Minister of Defense of Russia, Sergei Shoigu , has announced the withdrawal of the invading troops in the occupied region of Kherson across the Dnieper River , according to the state agency TASS. A few weeks ago, the Russian army already evacuated a large part of the capital's population following the advance of Ukrainian soldiers.Kherson is part of the Ukrainian regions illegally annexed by Russia, along with Lugansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia following a referendum held last September without the support of the international community.


The spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, explained that the minister is visiting the occupied area of ​​Lugansk. He also said that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will also pay a visit to the annexed part of the Donbass, although he specified that "as of now there are no specific plans.

The importance of Kherson.

The city of Kherson was the only regional capital that the Russian army had managed to occupy since February this year, when the Kremlin decided to resume military hostilities against Ukraine, which began in 2014 with the occupation of part of the Donbass and the annexation of the Crimean peninsula.


The Kherson region is very important in the strategic field due to its geographical situation. In this sense, it connects Crimea with the rest of Ukraine, which has allowed the Russian army to guarantee the water supply to the peninsula. In addition, control of the region also means having the key to the mouth of the Dnieper River in the Black Sea.


With the withdrawal from Kherson, the ghosts of a Russian ground attack on the city of Odessa, Ukraine's fifth largest and close to the border with Romania and Moldova, finally fade away.