Vladimir Putin is pulling troops out of Ukraine to defend Russia as Kyiv’s forces power on.
Ukraine’s shock surge into Russian territory is widely seen as a ploy to stretch Kremlin resources and with Vlad’s latest move it appears to be working.
The Ukrainian blitz has lasted just a week but they’ve already taken over dozens of villages and a huge slice of territory – as much as 400,000 square miles, according to Kyiv estimates.
It’s sparked mass evacuation in both the Kursk and Belgorod regions, with at least 120,000 Russian residents forced to flee.
Now some Russian troops have been ordered out of southern Ukraine to come back and defend their homeland, a Ukrainian army spokesman revealed.
Dmytro Lykhoviy told Politico: “Russia has relocated some of its units from both Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine’s south.”
Those regions were attacked by Putin straight after the tyrant launched his illegal full-scale invasion in February 2022.
It’s not clear how many troops were called back to the border as Ukraine continues to pile in but Lykhoviy conceded it was a “relatively small” number.
Yet it could prove a sign of success that Ukraine’s bold move to take the war to Russia will take some heat off its own battered regions.
One of Russia’s strike UAV drones was redeployed to Kursk, after previously flying around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, Russian defence policy researcher Rob Lee posted on X.
Either way, Kyiv has shown the world it can launch its own devastating offensives, making Vlad the first Russian leader to surrender his nation’s soil since the Second World War.
And an anonymous Western diplomat working in Kyiv told the Washington Post it was part of a masterplan for Ukraine to remind the world of its own prowess.
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