Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy says Kherson is “ours” as Russia completes its withdrawal from the regional capital, the only one Moscow captured in fighting — now in its day 262.
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Ukraine commander: Military welcomed in Kherson area
Ukraine’s national anthem rang out in the centre of Kherson, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared the city to be “ours” after Russia announced the completion of its withdrawal from the regional capital.
“We see children running to meet us and greeting us,” said Andriy Zholob, the commander of a medical unit currently about 50 kilometres from Kherson. “We see attractive, smiling faces, flowers, embroidered towels which we display on our vehicles,” he added.
Ukraine’s parliament published a video of the anthem being played on a central square in Kherson and a small crowd of people, huddled around a bonfire in the dark of the night singing along before the camera zoomed in on a Ukrainian flag flying from a government building. “The Ukrainian anthem in the centre of Kherson,” said the caption to the video, published on social media.
US hails Ukraine’s ‘extraordinary victory’ in Kherson
The White House has hailed what it said appeared to be an “extraordinary victory” for Ukraine in recapturing the city of Kherson from Russian occupiers.
“It does look as though the Ukrainians have just won an extraordinary victory where the one regional capital that Russia had seized in this war is now back under a Ukrainian flag — and that is quite a remarkable thing,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters as he accompanied President Joe Biden to the ASEAN summit in Cambodia.
Sullivan was speaking after Ukrainian troops entered the city, which was one of the lynchpins in Russia’s occupation of swathes of Ukraine. Sullivan said that the Russian retreat would have “broader strategic implications,” including relieving the longer-term threat by Russia to other southern Ukrainian cities such as Odessa.
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