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Podcast: Ukrainecast
Episode: Kherson: Russian retreat?
Description: Russia has ordered its military to pull out of Kherson, the only regional capital it captured after invading Ukraine in February. The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen gives us his appraisal of whether we can believe what Russia says about troop movements.
The news came shortly after the announcement that the Russian-appointed official in the region, Kirill Stremousov, had been killed in a car crash. BBC investigative reporter Tim Whewell tells Vitaly about the significance of Stremousov’s death.We hear from Anthony Zurcher, BBC’s North America reporter, about the US mid-term elections and what the ramifications might...