TWZ | Published December 5, 2024
Ukraine Situation Report: Russia is increasing attacks across Dnipro River to draw Ukraine’s troops away from other areas of the front.
As Ukraine continues to lose territory in the eastern region of its country and struggles to hold on to the salient it’s carved out in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, it is facing increasing pressure in the south.
“Russian troops are constantly conducting assaults in the Kherson direction,” Vladislav Voloshin, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Southern Command, told the Suspline media outlet on Wednesday. “Over the past day, there were seven of them. They tried to gain a foothold in the [Dnipro River] island zone.”
Russia is increasing its efforts on the Dnipro to draw Ukrainian troops from other regions, the spokesman suggested.
“They have the goal of capturing a certain bridgehead, holding it, and bringing them there as much of our strength and means as possible,” Voloshin said.
“Russia wants to launch another offensive here,” Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration, told the Financial Times.
Russian forces, he added, had assembled “300 boats to cross the river” for that effort.
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SOURCE: www.thewarzone.com
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The view on the Dnipro River from a destroyed building on an island in Kherson, Ukraine, Nov. 5, 2023. (Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Anadolu via Getty Images)
KYIV INDEPENDENT | Published December 4, 2024
Russian troops are storming the Kherson direction in an attempt to gain a foothold on some islands in the Dnipro River delta, Vladyslav Voloshyn, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Southern Command, told Suspilne on Dec. 4.
Russian forces are trying to conduct attacks near the Kozatskyi and Kruhlyk islands, Voloshyn said.
His comments came after Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin told the Financial Times that Russia “wants to launch another offensive” in the direction of Kherson.
Kherson and other regional settlements west of the Dnipro River have been subjected to near-daily Russian strikes since Ukraine liberated the area in November 2022, and Russian troops were pushed to the river’s east bank.
Russia has assembled “300 boats to cross the river” Prokudin said in an article published earlier on Dec. 4.
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SOURCE: www.kyivindependent.com
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