The withdrawal came just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared he was illegally annexing the area-along with the Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions-after referendum votes to join Russia had been held there last week. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed troops 'retreated to more advantageous lines.' The former Russian military leader's comments come after Russia suffered a major defeat on Saturday after Russian forces withdrew from Lyman, a city in Ukraine's Donetsk region, which had been occupied since May. Calmly, without nerves and unnecessary emotions,' Girkin said. We think what needs to be done for this, and we are doing it. 'We don't want to 'prolong the agony.' We want to win. Girkin said Sunday that Russia's war in Ukraine, from the outside, looks like a 'prolongation' of 'agony.' Bulent Kilic Above, Igor Strelkov, who is also known as Igor Girkin, the top military commander of the self-proclaimed 'Donetsk People's Republic', delivers a press conference on Jin Ukraine.

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