kyiv’s objectives focus on the bridges to cut off Russian forces from their supply centers on the Crimean peninsula.
The Presidency of Ukraine announced yesterday in its morning report that throughout Monday and early Tuesday morning “strong explosions occurred in the Kherson region. Intense fighting is taking place in almost the entire territory of the region. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched offensive actions in several directions (…) destroyed ammunition stores,” said the note, which once again insisted that all major bridges across the Dnieper River in the Kherson region have been demolished. .
The Ukrainian military said on Monday that it had launched a large-scale counteroffensive in Kherson, a province of great agricultural importance that borders the Crimean peninsula. If, as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, states, one of the main objectives of his army is to recover Crimea, control over all of Kherson will have to be reestablished first. From Moscow, however, it is asserted that his army is “failing” Ukraine’s attempts to restore its territorial integrity and causing “heavy casualties” to Ukrainian troops.
But the kyiv authorities reiterate that their Army managed to “cut off the supply of weapons to Russian troops from Crimea.” Yesterday it was the head of the Kherson Military Administration, Yaroslav Yanushevich, who stressed this and stressed that now the Ukrainian rockets and artillery are trying to “neutralize” all the concentration points of Russian troops, their barracks and arsenals. The Russian agency RIA-Novosti spoke yesterday of Ukrainian bombardments in the city of Kherson itself, in Melitopol, which is 70 kilometers from the front line, and even in the port of Berdyansk, from where the front is almost 100 kilometers. away.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in Washington believes that “Russia pretends that there is no advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kherson” when they have managed to liberate “five towns during the first day of the counteroffensive and they advanced from 5 to 6 kilometers in at least one of the sectors of the front».
On the other hand, according to ISW specialists, the Russian Army is trying to repair the destroyed bridges across the Dnieper and moving new units to Kherson using a pontoon ferry, but this supply line is vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery attacks. .
“Ukraine gets its own back”
In his speech on Monday afternoon, Zelensky launched that “if they want to survive, it is time for the Russian Army to leave (…) that they go home. If you are afraid to go back – to Russia – surrender.” In his words, “Ukraine is taking back its own and will return the Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea regions and, of course, our territorial waters in the Black and Azov Seas.”
The Ukrainian president received yesterday in kyiv the recently arrived inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) who must now go to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, in the hands of Russian troops, to verify its condition after the recent bombings and determine if its operation is safe. “We want the IAEA mission … to do everything possible to avoid the danger of a nuclear disaster,” Zelenski told the delegation, led by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.
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