Still successes – Kiev: Russians blew up the dam to stop the advance

Despite this, the Ukrainian forces failed in their counter-offensive against the Russian army in the Zaporizhia regionachieved local successes according to western experts. The American Institute for War Studies (ISW) in Washington announced that the gains lie in the west of the Zaporizhia region and there in the southwest and southeast of the city of Orikhiv. According to Russian information, the attacks were repelled.

Moscow: Attacks repulsed
In general, there are Ukrainian offensive actions in four sectors of the front, the ISW said. On the other hand, the Russian army announced that it had successfully repelled the attacks there and in the Donetsk region around the city of Bakhmut. Kiev had recently confirmed wide-ranging offensive actions and attacks by its forces to bring back Russian-held territories. However, there is still no official confirmation that the major offensive that has been announced for months has begun.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country is using “counter-offensives” on the front lines against Russian forces. “Counter-offensive and defensive actions” took place, but he would not give “details”, Zelensky said in Kiev on Saturday. He left open whether it was about the long-awaited large-scale offensive by Ukraine. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine’s offensive had already begun.

20 drones intercepted
The Ukrainian Air Force also reported on Sunday that another six drones were shot down in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions on the border with Russia. On Saturday, the Ukrainian air defense announced that two cruise missiles and twenty drones had been shot down. Accordingly, Russia had fired 35 drones and 8 missiles at targets in Ukraine – at military and important infrastructure objects. In addition to Odessa, Russian strikes also targeted targets in the Poltava region and in Kharkiv.

Meanwhile, the search for missing persons continues after the devastating destruction of the Mega Dam in the Confederate War Zone. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that 32 villages with 3,784 houses are still under water on the right bank of the Kiev-controlled Dnipro River. Authorities had announced the night before that 29 people were missing.

combat operations in the disaster area
After the dam broke, 1,400 emergency services were involved in remedying the consequences of the flood. The evacuation of villages also continued on the Russian-occupied side of the bank. Thousands of people were evacuated to safety on both sides of the river in the disputed area. So far, a total of 13 people have been killed on both sides of the area where hostilities continued.

However, the Ukrainian authorities reported falling water levels. The high water level of the Dnipro in Kherson was therefore around 4.2 meters on Sunday morning, more than half a meter lower than the day before. The water flows into the Black Sea. The operator of the destroyed Kachowka power plant announced that the water level in the reservoir also continues to fall. So he was around 9.4 meters, which was more than seven meters less than Tuesday.

There is a shortage of drinking water in Crimea
According to British findings, the destruction of the Kachowka dam is likely to affect the drinking water supply of the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula. The collapse of the dam almost certainly caused serious damage to Crimea’s main freshwater source, the North Crimean Canal, the British defense ministry said on Sunday.

The water from the Kakhovka reservoir will soon stop flowing across the channel towards Crimea. This will reduce fresh water availability in southern Kherson Oblast and northern Crimea, the British wrote in their daily intelligence update. However, Russia is likely to meet the immediate water needs of the population, including through reservoirs, water rationing and the supply of Russian bottled water.