The Ukrainian army is trying to advance in the southern region of Kherson to force the Russian withdrawal from the left bank of the Dnieper River, while resisting the Russian pulse on the eastern front, where rival troops have been attacking without pause for weeks.
“The news ‘The command of the Dnieper group has made the decision to regroup troops to more advantageous positions east of the Dnieper’ is canceled as erroneous,” was the message broadcast today by Russian agencies that caused a real stir in space. informative.
Shortly before, the main Russian media had quoted the Ministry of Defense about a withdrawal of Russian forces from Kherson, coinciding with the anniversary of their previous withdrawal from the area, to transfer them to other sectors of the front.
Defense was quick to release its own statement in which it called the news published by official media about the withdrawal of troops south of the Dnieper River due to the Ukrainian advance in the Kherson region a “provocation.”
“The dissemination of false information about the regrouping of troops in the Dnieper River area supposedly on behalf of the press center of the Russian Ministry of Defense is a provocation,” Defense reported to the RBC newspaper.
Later, the RIA Nóvosti agency explained that it received the news from a fake account of the Ministry of Defense that is allegedly managed from Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov refused to comment on this information and recommended contacting Defense.
And the Ukrainian army has managed to create several beachheads on the left side of the Dnieper, which would include the deployment of troops and armor and the capture of some small towns.
According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which cites geolocated images and Russian military bloggers, Ukrainian troops have entered about three or four kilometers into the left bank of the Dnieper.
The ISW considers that the defensive and offensive combats that the Russian Army is waging in other sectors could limit its ability to move reinforcements to the south of the Kherson region, the prelude to the annexed Crimean peninsula.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the eve thanked “all those fighting on the left bank of the Khershon region for the good of Ukraine” in a message to the nation on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of the city of Khershon . . . .
Meanwhile, the Russian military report this Monday made no reference to the denied news and limited itself to saying that on the Kherson front the enemy had lost “up to 60 soldiers” in one day.
Simultaneously, Russian forces continued offensive operations in the east, especially in the direction of the towns of Kupiansk and Kreminna, near Bakhmut, as well as in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, according to the ISW.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is increasingly protecting its skies in an attempt to end Russian superiority in the air.
“The Ukrainian air shield is already stronger than last year,” Zelensky said in one of his speeches, in which he regretted that, despite this, the shield “does not protect the entire Ukrainian territory.”
He also thanked kyiv’s partners who have helped Ukraine strengthen its air defense system, including the US, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and others.
At the same time, the center for training pilots of American-made F-16 fighters was inaugurated in Romania, which Ukraine hopes to receive in early 2024.
