Kyiv said it had withdrawn its soldiers to save troops from being fully surrounded after months of fighting.
Ukrainian soldiers getting out of a military vehicle in a location given as Avdiivka, in a screengrab taken from a video released on Feb 17.
Ukraine said it had withdrawn its soldiers to save troops from being fully surrounded after months of fierce fighting.After Ukraine’s failure to pierce Russian lines in 2023, Moscow has been trying to grind down Ukrainian forces just as Kyiv ponders a major new mobilisation and President Volodymyr Zelensky appoints a new commander to run the war.
Russia cast the Ukrainian withdrawal as rushed and chaotic, with some soldiers and weapons left behind.triggering the full-scale war after eight years of conflict in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces on the one side and pro-Russian Ukrainians and Russian proxies on the other.
“Now, will replenish, they will wait for the relevant weapons, of which there simply weren’t enough, simply aren’t enough,” he said.
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