Russia says it's withdrawing forces from a key city in eastern Ukraine, apparently marking a significant victory for Ukrainian efforts to regain territory in the conflict.
The deputy mayor of Izium, Volodymyr Matsokin, confirmed in a Telegram post that the armed forces of Ukraine are in the city, but said it's too early to say the city has been liberated. He says the military is working on it., Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that more than 30 settlements in Kharkiv oblast had been"liberated" so far.
While Russia's Ministry of Defense and the Kremlin have not officially acknowledged the counteroffensive, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov confirmed that Moscow's forces withdrew for the city of Izium — a key regional transportation and supply hub for the Russian military in Ukraine's east."...
Videos posted to social media showed long lines of cars piled up at the Russian border after occupying authorities called for a civilian evacuation., a think tank based in Washington D.C., said that successes in the Kharkiv counteroffensive"are creating fissures within the Russian information space" and"eroding confidence" in Russian command.
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