KHERSON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Russian withdrawal from Kherson ‘the beginning of the end of the war’ on Monday as he met with soldiers in the southern city.
The liberation of Kherson after a grinding offensive that forced Russian to pull back its forces from the city was one of Ukraine’s biggest success so far of the nearly nine-month invasion and a stinging blow for the Kremlin.
Zelenskyy said that the country’s ‘strong army’ was persistently reclaiming the territories taken by Russia since its invasion while also acknowledging the difficulties and the heavy human toll.
The Ukrainian army has now reclaimed three major areas of the country in its counteroffensives — the area north of Kyiv, the northeastern region of Kharkiv and now Kherson and many neighboring settlements. —PTI

Press Trust of India