, a private aerospace and defense consulting firm which first noted the movements and shared their findings with The Daily Beast.
The area where radar-imaging satellites caught sight of the vehicles is close to Hostomel airport, where special operations troops from the Russian Airborne Forces had tried and failed to capture the strategic airfield early on in the war. Fomin presented the withdrawal pledge as a diplomatic concession “to increase mutual trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations” but military experts believe the move is less a magnanimous gesture on Russia’s part and more of a bow to the reality of how poorly the Russian military’s effort to take the capital has fared.
Last week, the Russian military’s General Staff implied that the attempt to seize Kyiv had never been an important part of Russia’s invasion and that the primary objective lay further east.
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