The Armed Forces of Ukraine, raising the state flag in the liberated Cherson, secured the most serious political and military defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the war, which lasts more than 8 months, writes The Washington Post.
“until November 11, Kherson remained the only Ukrainian regional center that Russian troops managed to capture from the beginning of a full -scale invasion. Therefore, the retreat from it destroyed the illusion of control created by Putin through the illegal anxia of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Despite the fact that today Russia controls the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnieper to ensure the “land corridor” to the occupied Crimea, the loss of the regional center has become a stunning blow after the Kremlin’s high -profile statements that Russia is supposedly “forever” remained in Kherson .
The tough wire faction of Moscow, including nationalist -minded so -called “military commissars”, calls the surrender of the city by betrayal and “Black Day”. Since earlier Kherson, together with other occupied regions, was inscribed in the Russian Constitution as a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, ”the newspaper writes.