Reporters say Russian troops are withdrawing from Kherson’s border with Mykolaiv

Russian military reporters in the northern part of the Kherson region said there was a withdrawal in some areas after what was described as “massive enemy attacks”.

A major Russian Telegram channel reported that “there was a withdrawal to support positions” near the town of Snihurivka, which is in the neighboring Mykolaiv region.

“A bridge was also blown up by our forces in this area today,” according to the RVVoenkor channel, which has more than 1 million subscribers.

“Ukrainian sources published a photo with the raising of their flag at the Snihurivka railway station. The settlement is under your control,” she said.

THE CNN geolocated the photograph of the flag on a tower in Snihurivka.

The channel also said that Ukrainians had entered the nearby village of Kalynivske and that “the front line is constantly moving towards Kherson”.

Separately, another Russian military reporter, Alexander Kots, said on Telegram: “This morning, after seeing that Russian flags had disappeared from the administrative buildings in Kherson and receiving several urgent recommendations to cross to the east bank, we decided to take two more flags with us. to the ferry. So that those who mocked our state symbols would not catch them.”

“One was taken from the Town Hall flagpole… I’ll keep the state flag until we get back. So I can hang it up again,” added Kots.

What Ukraine said earlier: Serhii Khlan, a member of the Ukrainian Regional Council of Kherson, said Russian forces appeared to be carrying out a tactical retreat from some frontline villages and blowing up bridges.

“The occupiers blew up not only the Dariivskyi and Tiahynskyi bridges, they also blew up the bridge at the exit from Snihurivka towards Kherson, across the canal,” Khlan told a news conference. “They blew up the bridge at Novokairy, they blew up the bridge at Mylove.”

“The occupiers are now blowing up absolutely every bridge” in the occupied Kherson region west of the Dnipro River, he said.

Images and reports from Russian propagandists and military analysts on Telegram seem to corroborate these claims.

In Snihurivka, Khlan said: “As I understand it, the occupiers are reinforcing [fortificações] to ensure the withdrawal of their units from the front line. We can say that under the onslaught of our Armed Forces, the occupiers are preparing and doing everything possible to make it look like a planned retreat from the front line rather than an outright failure of the front,” he said.