Russian forces complete their orderly withdrawal from northern Kyiv and the Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
By Thursday, most of the invading troops had left these areas and reached Belarus.
If, according to the experts, this maneuver was carried out in a controlled manner, it still caused losses.
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This departure was announced at the end of March by the Kremlin, as was its intention to now concentrate its efforts on the east of the country and more particularly the Donbass, partly held since 2014 by separatist militiamen largely supported by Moscow.
For NATO, this new plan is in reality for the Russian general staff a
"rewriting of its narrative"
, in order to erase the clear defeat in front of Kiev and to quickly post a victory, before May 9 and the anniversary of the "great patriotic war".
A terrain favorable to armor
To do so, observers, both American and British, claim that the Russian army will attempt a classic maneuver: to take in a pincer movement the Ukrainian troops defending the…
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