Russia redeployed less than 20% of its forces from its group near Kiev
Russia redeployed less than 20% of the forces tentatively concentrated around Kyiv, stated in the environment in the Pentagon. At the same time, as the representative of the US Department of Defense noted, Moscow is expected to re-equip them and replenish supplies for further redeployment on the territory of Ukraine without returning the military home.
Encircled Russian troops fired on the outskirts of Kyiv and the fossils of Chernihiv, a day after Moscow announced it was curtailing military operations around the world in what the West called a “ploy” to regroup any force that suffered heavy casualties.
Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said that some of the Russian troops may have already been deployed to Belarus.
“They’re leaving Kyiv and heading further north, further away from the city,” Kirby said at a press conference.
According to Kirby, among the troops who left the area were some of those who were in the Chernigov region and in the Sumy region.
He added that Kyiv is still subject to air and ground strikes.
A White House spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some Russian troops are also liberating the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It remains unclear whether the departing troops are leaving the exclusion zone around the nuclear plant or a nearby town.
Military analysts say Russia has reformulated healers in Ukraine to make it easy to claim a lifesaving victory despite a bad walk in which the Russian army suffered heavy casualties.
Kirby added that the Russian private military company Wagner is deploying about 1,000 mercenaries in the Donbas, which Moscow has declared a “priority” region for itself.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said that Wagner and other private groups are not in high demand in the Russian state and do not receive much income from it, that they have the right to act if they do not violate Russian laws.
Last year, the European Union imposed sanctions on Wagner, accusing the PMC leadership of fomenting crime, plundering natural resources and destabilizing countries around the world.
Earlier Wednesday, the commander-in-chief of US forces in Europe told Congress that President Joe Biden’s administration had made a political decision to keep US ships out of the Black Sea ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The disclosure of Biden’s pre-trial detention prior to the invasion of Russia gave Moscow no US-related pretext for attacks on Ukraine, which has been seized on by Republican critics in recent days, subjected to a Caucus response in later responses.
Kirby said the decision was made as a prudent move “to make it clear to everyone that Concern Reports has no interest in forcing conflict with any sort of positioning decision.”
“So it was prudent at the time, and I don’t have anything to say yet about whether American ships will return to the Black Sea and when that will happen,” he said.
In the environment, Ukraine has accused Russia of placing mines in Montenegro’s Europe and has announced that some of these mines need to be cleared in Europe and Turkey, as this increased the risks to merchant shipping in the United Kingdom.
The Black Sea is a successful European consumption route for oil and oil products. Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia and Turkey are also Ukraine and Russia Black Sea states.