Putin removes troops from Ukraine to protect Russia - Politico

After that, Moscow removed some of the troops from the occupied south of Ukraine and returned them to its territory to try to repel the invasion of the Armed Forces, Politico writes. "Russia has relocated some of its units from Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions in the south of Ukraine," Dmitry Likhovi, a spokesman for the operational group "Tavriya" Tavriya.

The publication could not confirm how many Russian troops were relocated across the border, but Likhov said it was a "relatively small" number of units. On the air of the Telelorphone Likhova also added that Russia is throwing its troops into "other directions, including Kursk. " At the same time, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Russian troops continue their offensive on Pokrovsk and other districts of Donetsk region.

At a tense meeting in Russia on Monday, local authorities told annoyed Putin as Ukrainian troops, since last week, broke through weak defense, which led to a mass evacuation of nearly 200,000 people. When Ukraine seized the territory, the Russian commanders initially diminished the importance of the attack, insisting that the military control the situation. But more than a week, Ukraine now controls at least 1000 square kilometers of Russian territory.

The intersection of the Russian border by defense, as the publication notes, raised the moral spirit in Ukraine, which has repeatedly repelled the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, and gave impetus to Western allies who want to bow the scales of scales to their side. However, by taking part of the units under Kursk, Russian troops actively attacked and initiated battles on the whole front, in particular in the south, from where the troops were withdrawn.

"The Russians have accumulated a large number of personnel, in particular in the Zaporozhye region, and the number of units they redeployed is relatively small," Likhov said on Ukrainian television. And the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation really started several attacks on Kherson the night when some of the strength was taken away. "We still need to understand if it is a smoke curtain," Likhov added.

We will remind, according to information of monitoring channels, the total number of groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kursk region increased to about 10,000 people. Of these, more than 50% have the experience of warfare, the rest - "term" and "militias" without combat experience.