The colourful billboards erected by Russia’s occupying forces in the Ukrainian city of Kherson boasted that it would be a Russian city “forever”. In reality, that lasted just more than eight months.
Under sustained bombardment from a Ukrainian counter-offensive that started August 29, Russian troops at risk of encirclement were ordered to withdraw from the city on Wednesday.
Their retreat marks a major victory for Kyiv in the battle for south-east Ukraine, one that robs Moscow of its biggest military achievement of the war and changes the calculus for both sides as the conflict heads into winter.
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