Zelensky: The enemy doesn’t give us gifts and doesn’t give goodwill gestures
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Kyiv was dealing with extreme caution with Russia’s announcement to withdraw its forces from the southern city of Kherson.
“The enemy doesn’t give us gifts and doesn’t make ‘goodwill gestures’, we are winning everything,” Zelensky said in his daily speech, adding, “So we are moving forward with great caution, without emotions and without unnecessary risks, in order to liberate our entire land and to limit as much as possible losses.
Russia suffered another major setback on Wednesday in its attack on Ukraine, announcing the decision to withdraw its forces from the Kherson region in the south of the country, which is under a Ukrainian counter-attack and bears the same name as its capital.
This withdrawal, which was decided after the Russian occupation forces evacuated about 115 thousand residents of the Kherson region, is a resounding defeat for Moscow, which was forced to withdraw from the Kharkiv region (northeast) in September.
It also comes as Vladimir Putin on September 21 ordered the mobilization of some 300,000 reservists to bolster the ranks of the Russian forces, as thousands of them were deployed to combat zones.
