Officials in Ukraine on Friday said that Kyiv’s forces have pushed back Russian troops near the capital, Kyiv, although fighting is reportedly still raging in the area. “Our troops are chasing them both to the northwest and northeast (of Kyiv), pushing the enemy away from Kyiv,” Oleksiy Arestovych, a political adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told the Reuters news agency. Arestovych said Russia was carrying out a partial troop rotation and sending some of its forces to fight in eastern Ukraine. The Kyiv region’s governor, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, wrote on the Telegram messaging app earlier on Friday that some Russian troops had moved back and were heading towards the border with Belarus, a Russian ally. Russian forces had left the village of Hostomel, which is next to an important airport, but they were digging in at the town of Bucha, Pavlyuk also said. “The risk of dying is pretty high, and …
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