"There is no doubt that the Russians really are going to withdraw their troops across the River Dnipro to the eastern bank," said FRANCE 24 Chief Foreign Editor Robert Parsons. "But this is something that's not going to happen overnight. The Russians have presumably been preparing this manoeuvre for some time, and it's not going to be easy for them because they will be under fire from Ukrainian artillery. So it's something they will have put a lot of thought into, I imagine. They don't want to be panicking, because if the situation becomes panic-striken then they'll lose even more men."From the Ukrainian side, I think they're understandably cautious, because there's been a lot of smoke and mirrors from the Russians over the last few weeks, and they don't want to be sucked into a trap. President [Volodymyr] Zelensky noted that there was a lot of excitement around the country about the news from Kherson and understandably so. But, again, he was saying that Ukraine and Ukrainian armed forces shouldn't get ahead of themselves. There's a lot of fighting to be done and people would get killed in that. And he's absolutely right of course, because there will be a significant Russian rearguard, whatever they choose to do."
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