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Russia withdraws troops after Ukraine encircles key city

A boat with Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and U.N. officials heads to inspect cargo ships coming from Ukraine loaded with grain, in the Marmara Sea in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) People walk past banners displayed in front of the the city council building reading the name Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Ukrainian officials in the region have declared the day of mourning for the civilians who were killed following the Russia missile strike on a car convoy on the outskirts of the city. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Pedestrians are reflected in a security glass as they walk along the Glass Bridge over the Dnipro river in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Artillery craters are seen in the field from an arial view in the recently liberated area of Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to poetess from Donetsk region Bogdana Neshcheret before celebrations marking the incorporation of regions of Ukraine to join Russia in Red Square with the Spasskaya Tower on the right, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. The signing of the treaties making the four annexed regions part of Russia follows the completion of the Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums." (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) From left, Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic and Leonid Pasechnik, leader of self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, Moscow-appointed head of Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo, Moscow-appointed head of Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, and Artem Vladimirovich Zhoga, commander of the Sparta Battalion of Donetsk People's Republic separatist force listen to Russian national anthem during a ceremony in the Kremlin to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. The signing of the treaties making the four regions part of Russia follows the completion of the Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums." (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin joins hands with Moscow-appointed head of Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo, Moscow-appointed head of Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Denis Pushilin, leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Leonid Pasechnik, leader of self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, as they celebrate at the Kremlin during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, in Moscow, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. The signing of the treaties making the four regions part of Russia follows the completion of the Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums." (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP) FILE - A view of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant and the Dnipro river on the other side of Nikopol, Ukraine on Aug, 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)