Kiev is considering extending the counteroffensive to the Kherson front (south of the country) to further wear down the Russian forces, whose resistance means that advances on the ground are slower than expected, according to official Ukrainian sources.
As revealed by a spokesman for the Ukrainian National Guard, Ukrainian forces are now putting increasing pressure on the enemy in Kherson to prepare the ground for future offensive actions. The Kherson region is split in two by the Dnieper River. Russia occupies the eastern bank and the Kiev government controls the western bank. In particular, Ukraine is now carrying out intelligence and reconnaissance operations in the area and launching attacks in the rear of Russian troops, the spokesman added, quoted by the agency. UNIAN. The National Guard of Ukraine made these statements shortly after the authorities acknowledged that the counter-attack, launched a month and a half ago, is not going as fast as expected, due to strong Russian resistance.
For his part, General Oleksander Tarnavski, commander of the Ukrainian forces in the south of the country, affirmed this Saturday that his troops are advancing and “systematically displacing the enemy from their positions.” in close to 100 the casualties among the Russian ranks. In addition, he assured that 33 military equipment of the enemy were destroyed. However, Tarnavski himself admitted in an interview with CNN that the counteroffensive is not going as well as one would like due to of the preparation of the Russian troops for the attacks. “It (the counteroffensive) is successful, but not as successful as we would like,” he said, adding that “the Russians prepared well.” The Ukrainian command also ensures that it continues to maintain the initiative in the around Bakhmut, where the Russians “put up a beastly resistance”.
Meanwhile, Russia still does not recognize the Ukrainian advances and assures that it continues to repel enemy attacks in different sectors of the front. In one of them, twelve Ukrainian soldiers aboard three boats were killed in the last hours in the Ukrainian region of Kherson when They were attempting to cross the Dnieper River to access the Russian-controlled bank, a Moscow-appointed spokesperson for the local authorities reported today. “During the last 24 hours (…) an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to force the the Dnieper River near the settlement of Sofiyivka,” said the source, quoted by the TASS agency. According to the representative of the Kherson emergency services, last night the Ukrainian forces launched 31 projectiles against towns under Russian control. The towns affected by enemy artillery fire are New Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Radensk and Sagi, he added.
At the political level, two days before the deadline for the extension of the agreement on the export of cereals through the Black Sea, its future remains uncertain. This Saturday the matter was addressed in a telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Kremlin reported. Putin told Ramaphosa that the obligations established by the pact regarding the “removal of obstacles to the export of Russian food and fertilizers have not yet been fulfilled.” , “the main objective of the agreement, the supply of grain to needy countries, including those on the African continent, has not been realized,” added the Russian leader
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