
Ukraine doubts that the Russian announcement of troop withdrawal from the northern war front is a strategy to focus on the southern front, where Moscow's claims are great.
Russia currently, apart from Crimea and the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, controls almost the entire Ukrainian coastline in the Black Sea, except for the coast in the city of Odessa, where shelling has escalated.
"Russia's goal is to "capture Donbass and all the south of Ukraine," Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky denounced in a speech he gave late Saturday.
He has stated that Ukrainian military forces have regained control of surrounding areas in Kiev and Chernihiv, while in the south the front lines have still been maintained, where the situation is the heaviest in Mariupol, a city since published footage has turned into a ghost town.