MADRID, 9 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Wednesday the withdrawal of Russian troops from the occupied Jerson region across the Dnieper River, TASS news agency has picked up.
Jerson forms part of the Ukrainian regions annexed in September by Russia, along with Lugansk, Donetsk and Zaporiyia in a measure that was rejected by the international community. Moscow claimed on Tuesday that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had visited the conflict zone, without giving further details.
In fact, the Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, reported this Wednesday that he is in the Lugansk region, in eastern Ukraine and occupied by Russian forces, as confirmed on Wednesday by Sergei Kiriyenko, a senior the Russian Presidency.
Peskov himself has indicated this Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a visit to the Donbas region, although he has specified that “for now there are no specific plans” for it. “I have no doubt that the time will come when Putin will go to Donbas, of course,” he said.
