Russia coming under heavy pressure in Ukraine - NATO

Speaking after meeting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Mr Stoltenberg said NATO would be watching in the coming days to see if the Russians did indeed pull back from the west bank of the Dnipro River.

Ukraine's army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said Kyiv could not yet confirm whether Russia was indeed pulling out, but that Ukrainian troops had advanced 7km in the past 24 hours and recaptured 12 settlements. Ukrainian officials have so far mostly been wary in public, warning that Russians may still be planning to sow destruction on their way out.

Mr Zelensky himself mentioned Kherson just once in his daily overnight television address. Ukrainian forces were strengthening their positions"step by step" in the south, he said."The enemy will make no gifts to us." Russian state media and pro-Kremlin war hawks defended it as a necessary move while acknowledging a heavy blow.

US President Joe Biden said the withdrawal showed there were"some real problems with the Russian military." It said civilians were moved from occupied Ukraine further into Russian-controlled areas or into Russia, with children separated from their families in violation of international humanitarian law.

If everything is going so well then we dont have to plan anymore for 10s of ,000s more of these guys comin here looking for houses..& ones that are here will be going soon, is that right? Nah of course it not. So this is more bulldust ur feeding us as usual

Any wise commander withdraws his troops in order to avoid unnecessary casualties.Yet as the Russians retreat they are inflicting heavy casualties on the Ukrainian, casualties they can't replace. If Ukraine is winning the war why is NATO assembling a force of 30,000 in Poland.

Good drive them out only way they'll learn crooks

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This still going on? Wow. Shocked they haven't moved to act 3 : the resolution. I love the theatre.

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