INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
"difficult decision" to pull back amid Ukrainian advances."Today at 5 o'clock in the morning Moscow time, the transfer of Russian troops to
the Kremlin said that the city of Kherson was still part of Russia, as Moscow claimed to have annexed the Kherson region in September."This
is a subject of the Russian Federation
There are no changes in this and there cannot be changed," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.Russia announced Wednesday it was
withdrawing its forces from Kherson due to its inability to supply Russian forces there, abandoning the only Ukrainian regional capital it
has captured in its nearly nine-month invasion.The decision to pull back to the left bank of the Dnipro River came after months of intense
referendums in each region
The annexation was rejected by Kyiv and widely condemned by Western countries.AFP contributed reporting.
