The military and civil administration of the pro-Russian separatist authorities in the Kherson region said: “We stopped the Ukrainian offensive against Kherson.”

Yesterday, the French news agency AFP reported, citing a military map published by the Russian Defense Ministry during a daily press conference, that “there is a significant retreat of its forces in the north of the Kherson region and in the south of Ukraine.”

The map shows that Russian forces have withdrawn from a large number of areas, including from Dudchane, located on the western bank of the Dnieper, and the Ukrainian army launched a counterattack in this area.

On September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the ceremony of signing agreements on the accession to the Russian Federation of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, announced that “Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have become areas of” accession of the Russian Federation “. four new constituent entities of the Russian Federation expresses the popular will of millions”, noting that “the choice of millions of inhabitants of these regions is carried out after the catastrophe of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union”.