Kyiv’s suburbs go quiet as Russian forces move out.

The Russian forces that stormed toward Kyiv in the opening days of the war in imposing tanks columns were in wholesale retreat from the capital on Saturday, pulling back under fire in dozens of outlying towns and villages and leaving behind burned tanks and dead soldiers, according to Ukrainian officials, satellite images, military analysts and reporting from the towns themselves.

Russian attacks elsewhere in Ukraine have not abated, and the Pentagon has cautioned that Russian formations near Kyiv could be repositioning to refit or resupply for renewed assaults. But by Saturday, suburban towns just outside Kyiv that had for weeks echoed with a cacophony of gunfire and artillery booms had gone quiet. Read more

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