Grim signs of a Russian retreat are visible on the outskirts of a village west of Kyiv.
Signs of a grim and chaotic Russian retreat lined the forest road near a village west of the capital on Saturday.
On the outskirts of the village, Dmytrivka, nine tanks and armored vehicles lay destroyed and gutted by fire from a tank battle three days earlier. The turrets and heavy guns of two tanks had been blown off. The burned human remains of men were visible inside their armored personnel carrier.
The bloody retreat from this village was part of a broader withdrawal of Russian troops from around the capital, Kyiv, after weeks of humiliating losses. Moscow had announced last week it planned to redirect its forces from the region to focus on operations in the south and east of Ukraine, but the scale of the Russian pullback has surprised Ukrainians.
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