The Zelensky Army launches a counter-offensive to retake the entire region
The strategic Antonovski Bridge over the Dnieper River, located on the outskirts of the city of Kherson, like the entire region of the same name occupied by the Russian army, had to be closed to traffic after it was bombed by Ukrainian troops on Tuesday night. troops as part of a counter-offensive aimed at restoring the entire region.
This was acknowledged today by the deputy head of the Russian occupation administration of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremoúsov. The attack was carried out by missiles fired from multiple HIMARS launchers, which were supplied to Ukraine by the United States as part of military aid to bolster the country’s defenses. The railway line next to the bridge is also damaged.
Speaking to Russian media, Stremoúsov pointed out that “more than ten rockets were fired at the Antonovski Bridge. We have already started restoration work.” Images released by the media show that the roadway of the bridge has been partially destroyed, but the pillars of the infrastructure remain intact.
This bridge, currently under the control of Russian troops, is one of the main crossing points of the Dnieper. Especially for resupplying the group of Russian troops on the right bank of the river, as it is the only one connecting the city to the other bank and to the rest of the Kherson region.
British intelligence reports in its daily report that control of the Dnieper bridges is likely to be a major factor in the outcome of the fighting in the Kherson region, whose capital is a few miles from the front where the Ukrainian army is fighting. the area of the Moscow troops. The Kherson region was quickly occupied by Russia in the early days of the war with the help of the troops deployed in Crimea.
“The Russians will have to learn to swim across the Dnieper or out of Kherson while they still can. There will be no third notification,” Ukraine’s presidency adviser Mikhailo Podoliak wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshuk called on residents of the Russian-occupied territories in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions to leave the area as soon as possible. He said the evacuation is “necessary so that the Ukrainian armed forces do not endanger the civilian population during the counter-offensive.”
Sergiy Jlan, one of Kherson’s Ukrainian government aides, assured a few days ago that the plan is to “completely liberate the region by September”. In recent weeks, the Ukrainian military, using weapons sent by the West, has gradually gained ground in the region. Last Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky confirmed that his troops are “advanced step by step into Kherson”.
Source: La Verdad
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