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Zelensky visits Ukraine's Kherson after Russian retreat

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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday visited the newly liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine after Russian forces retreated from the strategic hub near the Black Sea. This is definitely a symbolic victory for Ukraine but does it mean the fighting has halted? FRANCE 24's reporter Jonathan Walsh responds and tells us about what he could see when he was in Ukraine.

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