Washington hails “extraordinary victory” for kyiv forces after retaking Kherson

• Ukraine retook the city of Kherson from the Russians on Friday. In the evening, on the emblematic Independence Square, residents of Kherson who had been refugees for months in the capital celebrated the news with jubilation.
• The withdrawal of Russian forces will have “wider strategic implications”said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who hailed “an extraordinary victory” of Ukraine, acquired thanks to ” the incredible tenacity and skill of the Ukrainians, backed by the united and unrelenting support of the United States and our allies”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about “a historic day” and declared that the main task of the special forces would now be to neutralize the numerous mines left by the Russian army, which had occupied Kherson since mid-March. “We are winning battles on the ground. But the war continuessaid Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
• The executive director of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private power producer, says there is no power at all in the city of Kherson. He estimated that it would take at least thirty days to fully restore it.
• The Russian withdrawal from Kherson, described by Moscow as “redeployment”however has all the snub, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, having claimed at the end of September the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, including that of Kherson. The latter, despite the withdrawal, remains “a subject of the Russian Federation” and “there can be no change”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
• According to satellite photos from Maxar Technologies released Friday, November 11, several bridges were destroyed in Kherson and its surroundingswithout it being possible to determine whether this destruction was caused by the Russian troops who had just withdrawn from the west bank of the city or by the Ukrainian army.
• At the Paris Peace Forum, several leaders of countries in the southern hemisphere called for negotiations to end the war. “This war triggers famine” in “the southern hemisphere and is therefore ” not [qu’]a northern war “, declared in particular the Argentine president, Alberto Fernandez.

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