Why Putin’s retreat from Kherson could be his most humiliating defeat yet
- Written by Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
Life, as the saying goes, is coming at Vladimir Putin fast. Having gleefully announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine barely more than a month ago – even as his army retreated within them – the Kremlin now says it’s withdrawing from the only regional capital city it had captured since invading in February 2022.
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