The Ministry of Defence of Russia in their daily report on the war in Ukraine made no mention at all of the withdrawal of Russian forces from the city of Balakliia.
Source: daily video address of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation via the Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti
Details: Instead, the representative of the Ministry of Defence talked about the “successes” of the Russian army on Ukrainian land.
He mentioned “hundreds of Ukrainians killed”, “tonnes of military equipment destroyed”, “ammunition storage depots struck” and even “a HIMARS destroyed”.
What he did not mention was the fact that the city of Balakliia, in Kharkiv Oblast, which had been under occupation since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Source: Ukrainian pravda