>>512552223
>>512552447
>>Kherson
>Only after wasting 45,000 soldiers lives on futile assaults into Russian artillery kill zones
>Didn’t enter Kherson for a week after the Russians had voluntarily crossed back over the river
In fact, they were convinced Surovikin's bitter but extremely strategic move was an ebil Russian trap.

>>511399930
>so both retreat and dying again for same piece of land were in fact huge victory for russia?
You're fighting strawmen and crowing about victory. I remember well how the retreat from Kherson was framed. It was a bitter decision by Surovikin but the correct one. No one said the withdrawal from Kherson was a victory and it surprised everyone, Ukraine included, which memoryholes what it said then and claims it was a great victory.