Russia says it is abandoning the Ukrainian city of Kherson
But is it a trap?
EIGHT MONTHS of brutal war have borne little fruit for Russia. It was beaten back from northern Ukraine in the spring. It was routed in Kharkiv province in September. Since the start of the war in February it has lost perhaps 100,000 men, killed and wounded. The only provincial capital it has managed to take is Kherson city, captured in the first week of war and illegally annexed in September. And now that, too, seems to be slipping from its grasp.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The flight from Kherson”
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