BIG U-TURN BY PUTIN IN KHERSON - BUT IS IT A BIG TRAP SET BY THE DESPOT TO DECEIVE UKRAINE?

 Has Putin set a TRAP for Ukraine in Kherson? Russia blows up bridges, lays mines and could even FLOOD the area by destroying dam as forces retreat…and Kyiv admits 'they aren't leaving without a fight'

• Ukraine sees no sign Russia is ready to give up Kherson without a fight, senior Zelensky adviser has warned  
• Mykhailo Podolyak said Russian troops are still in the city and reinforcements have been allocated to region 
• Oleksiy Arestovych, another senior adviser, said Putin's men are now destroying bridges and laying mines
• Kyiv fears that Russia's heavily stage-managed announcement of retreat is actually a carefully laid trap 
  
  
  
  Ukraine sees no sign that Russia is leaving Kherson without a fight, a senior adviser to President Zelensky has said, amid fears in Kyiv that Moscow's heavily stage-managed announcement of retreat is actually a carefully laid trap.

• Mykhailo Podolyak, one of President Zelensky's most-senior advisers, said last night that Russian troops remain in the city and that Kyiv believes reinforcements are on their way. 'Actions speak louder than words,' he tweeted, 'Ukraine will liberate territories based on intelligence data, not staged TV statements.' 

  Oleksiy Arestovych, another senior adviser and former head of military intelligence, was a little more optimistic but still cautious - saying that Russian forces do appear to be leaving the region 'but not as much as would be taking place if it was a full pullout or regrouping.'

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