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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russian did not address the announced withdrawal, letting others do the talking.Credit…Pool photo by Sergej Bobylev

Many of the Russian cheerleaders of the invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday cast the defense minister’s order to withdraw from Kherson City as a monumental defeat — Moscow’s most devastating, according to one of them, since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The announced retreat crystallized the failures of President Vladimir V. Putin’s war effort. It would be a humiliating loss of the largest Ukrainian city that Russia had seized in its ...                      READ MORE...