Ukrainians celebrate Putin’s Russian troops retreating from Kherson

CELEBRATIONS broke out across Ukraine yesterday as the invading Russians retreated.

Relieved residents of Kherson who have been displaced to Odessa flew the Ukraine flag on hearing the country was back in control of their home city.

In Kherson itself, which has been occupied for eight months, locals downed booze as the Russians withdrew to the other side of the Dnipro river.

Ukraine’s troops yesterday carried out “stabilisation measures”, including the removal of explosives.

The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces warned that Russians were strengthening their battle lines after fleeing.

Meanwhile, a new work by Brit street artist Banksy emerged on a building outside Ukraine’s capital Kyiv – and was hailed as a symbol of the nation’s strength.

The graffiti in Borodyanka shows a boy throwing a man to the ground.

Local Oleksiy Savochka, 32, said: “It is a symbol that we are unbreakable, and our country is unbreakable.”