Ukraine War: Why is Russia withdrawing from Kherson now?

They are surrounded on land with their backs to a river where the bridges have been blown. They have exhausted a lot of their supplies existing. They are trying to leave with their equipment but I suspect they will have a very hard row to hoe.

"Russia reportedly didn’t ask the Ukrainian side to create a “green corridor,” or safe route, to withdraw its troops from Kherson, according to a Ukrainian defense official quoted by the Ukrinform news agency.

Sergei Khlan, a member of the Kherson Regional Council, said on Facebook Thursday that the Russians were moving their equipment to the left bank of the Dnipro River, and Ukraine’s forces were destroying it.

Separately, Ukraine’s southern command unit said today that its forces had attacked “two strongholds of the Russian occupiers, a column of enemy equipment and an ammunition depot” on Thursday as enemy forces build up in the area.

“As a result of the attacks, the Ukrainian defenders eliminated 125 occupiers, three enemy tanks, five units of armored vehicles and an ammunition depot in the Berislav district,” it added. Berislav lies up river from Kherson, on the same western bank of the river — the bank from which Russian forces are set to withdraw."

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/russia-ukraine-war-updates.html