Ukraine sceptical of Russian claims of pulling troops out of occupied Kherson

Military analyst Oleg Zhdanov said Russia’s announced retreat “could very well be an ambush and a Russian trap to force the Ukrainians to go on the offensive"

Ukraine responded to Russia’s claims of withdrawing from the only regional capital it captured with scepticism (AP)

Ukraine responded to Russia’s claims of withdrawing from the only regional capital it captured with scepticism, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warning the Kremlin was feigning it in order to lure the Ukrainian army into an entrenched battle.

A forced pullout from the key industrial city of Kherson would mark one of Russia’s worst setbacks in the eight-month-old war.