Who decided to pull Russia out of Ukraine's Kherson? Kremlin answers
The decision to pull Russian forces out of the Ukrainian city of Kherson came from the defense minister, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday in his first public comments on the dramatic setback.
The decision to pull Russian forces out of the Ukrainian city of Kherson came from the defense minister, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday in his first public comments on the dramatic setback.
“It was the proposal of commander Surovikin and there was the decision of the defense minister,” Peskov said on a conference call. “I have nothing more to add, nothing to say about this topic,” he said, referring comments to the Defense Ministry.
President Vladimir Putin hasn’t publicly commented on the retreat, which Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander of the operation in Ukraine, announced in televised comments Wednesday evening. Kherson was the only regional capital to fall to Russian troops in the nine-month-old invasion and was part of the territory that Putin illegally annexed in September. At the time, he said it would remain Russian forever.
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