Ukrainian soldiers say Russians are prepare to abandon Kherson as they are 'moving heavy equipment

krainian soldiers entrenched north of the Russian-held city of Kherson, told Reuters on Friday (October 22) there were indications that the Russian troops could be preparing to abandon the defence of Kherson and retreat across the Dnipro River.

But despite those indications they confirmed that the artillery and rocket fire from the Russian side was still intensive.

“The enemy impacts our positions with quite a powerful fire. The enemy constantly shells us with artillery,” said Nazar, who did not provide his last name, but a callsign – ‘Fuhas’.

“We are not relaxing. But this is part of our job which we willfully signed up for,” Mykola who goes by callsign ‘Varvar’ told Reuters.