![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/russia-claims-kherson-retreat-complete-as-ukrainian-rockets-rain-down-on-troops/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000315841852_1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqyxF-lmvzLErX6n2TCnUlZToGyOkVH5HDTZTGfw3ChBQ.jpeg&description=Russia's ministry of defence says it has destroyed the last road bridges over the Dnipro river in Kherson region after completing the evacuation of its troops from the river's right bank and regional capital. The retreat marks the end of one of the most hard-fought battles of the war so far and a major defeat for Vladimir Putin, who just two months ago declared he was 'annexing' Kherson, the only regional capital his forces have managed to capture. Locals in previously occupied areas were seen pulling down Russian propaganda posters and raising Ukrainian flags on Friday morning as they waited for advancing Ukrainian troops. By Friday afternoon, images of Kyiv's troops inside the city itself were circulating on Ukrainian social media channels. One video showed a soldier wearing Ukrainian yellow tactical flashes being mobbed by a crowd of civilians near a pub in a western district of the city. Alina Shapoval, a Kherson resident, was overjoyed at the news of the Russian retreat: 'I am overwhelmed with emotions, I am infinitely happy!" "Soon I will be able to see everyone from whom I have been separated for a long time,' she told The Telegraph. Another resident of the city, Viktoria, said she was suspicious of the sudden Russian withdrawal. 'I want to celebrate, but something tells me it is not over yet," she said. "The Russians can't be giving up so easily, not after everything that has happened. "I am scared for the winter and worry the city will become a battle ground. We will be in the firing line.'){kind=link}
Russian troops flee over pontoon bridges as Ukrainian forces close in symbolic city
Russia’s ministry of defence says it has destroyed the last road bridges over the Dnipro river in Kherson region after completing the evacuation of its troops from the river’s right bank and regional capital.
The retreat marks the end of one of the most hard-fought battles of the war so far and a major defeat for Vladimir Putin, who just two months ago declared he was “annexing” Kherson, the only regional capital his forces have managed to capture.
Locals in previously occupied areas were seen pulling down Russian propaganda posters and raising Ukrainian flags on Friday morning as they waited for advancing Ukrainian troops.
By Friday afternoon, images of Kyiv’s troops inside the city itself were circulating on Ukrainian social media channels.