Ukrainian troops holding destroyed village believe Russians withdrawing across border

Ukrainian Territorial Defense member Oleksandr Yuvchenko walks next to a destroyed vehicle in Ruska Lozova, a village retook by Ukrainian forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

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RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine (Reuters) - While three of his men heaped dark soil into a chin-high berm to shield their trench, Ohor Obolenskiy gestured on Sunday across sun-dappled fields to a tree-clad ridge line sweeping the nearby horizon.