Kiev’s objectives are focused on the bridges to cut off Russian forces from their supply centers in the Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine’s presidency announced in its morning report yesterday that “strong explosions have occurred in the Kherson region throughout Monday and early Tuesday mornings. Fierce fighting is taking place in almost the entire territory of the region. “The Ukrainian armed forces launched offensive actions in different directions (…) destroyed ammunition stocks,” the note said, reiterating that all major bridges over the Dnieper River in the Kherson region have been demolished. .
The Ukrainian army said Monday it had launched a large-scale counter-offensive in Kherson, a province of major agricultural importance bordering the Crimean peninsula. If, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky puts it, the restoration of Crimea is one of the main objectives of his army, then control of all of Kherson will have to be restored first. However, Moscow claims that its military is “failing” Ukraine’s efforts to restore its territorial integrity and inflicting “heavy losses” on Ukrainian forces.
But the Kiev authorities reiterate that their army has succeeded in “closing off the supply of weapons to Russian troops from Crimea”. Yesterday it was the head of the military administration of Kherson, Yaroslav Yanushevich, who emphasized this and emphasized that the Ukrainian missiles and artillery are now trying to “neutralize” all concentration points of Russian troops, their barracks and arsenals.
The Ukrainian press reported the destruction of a Russian command center in the town of Shirókaya Balka and rocket attacks on Nóvaya Kakhovka. According to the Russian agency RIA-Nóvosti, which quoted Moscow-designated local authorities, the bombings left Nóvaya Kajovka without electricity or water. The Russian agency also speaks of Ukrainian bombings in the city of Kherson itself, in Melitopol, which is 70 kilometers from the front line, and even in the port of Berdyansk, from which the front is almost 100 kilometers away.
Ukrainian military experts point out that the ongoing counter-offensive is a perfectly planned operation and is currently primarily intended to “check the readiness of the Russian troops and determine their weaknesses” before the advance into Crimea. to continue. This is the opinion of Oleg Zhdanov, pointing out that “we see secondary blows, which weaken and distract, but then comes the main blow, much stronger and devastating.”
The Institute of War Study in Washington believes that “Russia acts as if there is no advance of the Ukrainian armed forces in Kherson” when they succeeded in “liberating five cities during the first day of the counter-offensive and they tore from 5 to 6 kilometers in at least one of the front sectors».
On the other hand, according to ISW specialists, the Russian army is trying to restore the destroyed bridges over the Dnieper and move new units to Kherson using a pontoon ferry, but this supply line is vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery attacks. The former defense minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Igor Guirkin (Strelkov), assured on his Telegram channel that Ukrainian artillery continued to bomb the bridges over the Dnieper River yesterday and engaged the pontoons as an alternative.
Ukraine’s “South” Operational Command described the situation as “stable tension” and admitted to having suffered five attacks by Russian aircraft. According to the Ukrainian military leadership, on August 29, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked 13 command posts of Russian troops in the capital Kherson and in the districts of Berislav and Kakhovka. They also attacked air defense systems. The crossing that the Russians had built across the Dnieper near the city of Lvovo was destroyed.
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 return – to Russia – give yourself In his words: “Ukraine will take back its own land and will return the regions of Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea and, of course, our territorial waters in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea.”
The Ukrainian president yesterday received in Kiev the recently arrived inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) who must now go to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, owned by Russian troops, to verify its condition after the recent bombings and determine whether the operation is safe. “We want the IAEA mission … to do everything possible to avoid the danger of nuclear disaster,” Zelenski told the delegation, led by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. Now it will have to be assessed to what extent the path that the inspectors wait before reaching the nuclear power plant is safe.
Source: La Verdad
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