Editing by Peter Graff, Exclusive: US seeks allies' backing for possible China sanctions over Ukraine war, Hours after deadly train crash, Greece agonises over what went wrong, Russia tries to close ring on Bakhmut as Ukrainians resist, Florida's DeSantis presses prosecutor over suspect in fatal shooting, Blinken has 'no plans' to meet Russian, Chinese counterparts at Delhi G20 meetings, What has changed? Thomson Reuters. According to estimates, Russia may have deployed at least over 10 battalion tactical groups (BTGs) to the area. [126], On 12 September, President Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces have retaken a total of 6,000 sq km from Russia, in the both the south and the east. [28] Ukrainian forces liberated the city of Kherson two days later, on 11 November.[7]. But these campaigns dont have much to show for themselves. All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. Russia invaded most of Kherson Oblast, in the south of Ukraine, in the early part of Moscows full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But its a problem that can be solved, especially when it comes to just one frontline section.. Recently, open-source monitors have also indicated a growing number of poorly-trained troops mobilized in occupied Donbas and deployed to Kherson, which may indicate an ongoing lack of manpower. They need to take back Kherson oblast before the end of September, to give them time to secure it before heading to Mariupol and perhaps Crimea too. But in order to carry it out, Ukraines military would have to demonstrate excellent coordination of war power and do the difficult work of clearing the area of Russian forces, supply lines, and ammunition depots before going in. On 24 September 2022, The New York Times reported that Ukrainian commanders and servicemen acknowledged suffering heavy losses during the Kherson offensive, mostly caused by lack of ammunition, strong Russian defenses and the role of Russian artillery. Were bringing the voice of Ukraine to the world. 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Meanwhile, the South Command of the Ukrainian military reported that three enemy observation points on the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro River had effectively been destroyed. [149], On 22 October Russian occupation authorities urged residents in the city of Kherson to "leave immediately" citing what they called the tense military situation. [72][73], On 9 July, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered the Ukrainian military, including elements of Operational Command South, to retake occupied territory. Assassination attempts and bombings have also been carried out on collaborators. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. "The situation in our operational area . [61] On 30 August, shootouts and explosions were recorded in the city, which Russian officials attributed to "spies and saboteurs. Ukraine's campaign to retake the occupied Kherson region is "gathering pace", Western military sources say. After a long, grinding assault, the bulk of the Russian forces retreated across the Dnipro to the east, and Ukrainian forces retook the city of Kherson on Nov. 11 without opposition. [63] A Ukrainian general stated on 15 June that if Ukraine were supplied sufficient weapons, it would be able to mount a massive counteroffensive by the summer. Ukraine lost Kherson as early as March 2, amid little armed resistance, as Ukraines defenses in the south quickly collapsed to Russias heavy blitz. The 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive was a counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of the Kharkiv Oblast which was launched on 6 September 2022. In a first since the war began, Russia acknowledged its defeat in the region. Rusov hroz pomstou! 2/27/23 The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces on Monday reported that Kremlin-installed authorities in Kherson Oblast were fleeing the region in order to escape a Ukrainian counteroffensive. May the rashists reinforcements and supplies be cut off and destroyed. Ukraine said Wednesday that its military has killed more than 200 Russian soldiers so far amid a counter-offensive to recapture the southern Kherson region. 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The Russians have suffered heavy losses since the invasion began and significant quantities of Russian weaponry have also been destroyed or captured. They cant have a wholesome line of trenches. Just as important to Russia's southern strategy is its. [51], On 18 April, Russian, DPR, and LPR forces launched the Battle of Donbas, requiring some of their forces to be transferred to the east. The authorities reportedly erected a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the town square, introduced Russian curriculum to the local school system,[35] rerouted internet servers to Russia,[36] issued Russian passports,[37] and began circulating the Ruble. [142] Ukrainian forces reached the village of Novopetrivka. It would also need to destroy two bridges across the Dnipro River, the Antonivsky Bridges, one for vehicle traffic and the other for railway, close to the town of Antonivka on the outskirts of Kherson. Read also:Ukraine targets Russias ammunition depots, undermining its artillery advantage. Ale hlavn Ponomarenkv pln odhaluje, asi nechtn, souasnou ruskou strategii, a ukazuje, jak moc byl dosud ukrajinsk generln tb hloup, kdy pijal zpsob boje, kter si Rusov vysloven pej! Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Social media footage and Russian milblogger discourse also indicated that Ukrainian forces made advances west of the T0403 highway, liberating Khreschenivka on 1 October. [90] In the next months, Ukrainian forces launched a series of limited ground attacks as well as several air and rocket attacks on Russian targets in southern Ukraine. [86], According to a 24 July statement by Kherson Region official Serhiy Khlan, Ukrainian attacks damaging Antonivka Road Bridge[87] and another key bridge, and attacks on Russian ammunition stores and command posts, were preparatory actions for the offensive. Read also: Russians strike public transport stop in Kherson, killing six and injuring 12. Read also:Welcome to hell: Ukrainian airborne fighting Russia in Donbas woods. Analza nejnovjho vvoje vlky michalapetr.com. He has reported about the war in eastern Ukraine since the conflicts earliest days. Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'. [147] On 18 October, General Sergei Surovikin, the new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, said in Russian TV that the defence of Kherson was "not easy" and that The enemy continually attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops.[148] Michael Clarke projected that the Ukrainians were engaged in a Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) operation over Kherson Oblast. [55], By 1 June, the Institute for the Study of War had assessed that Ukrainian counterattacks in Kherson Oblast had successfully disrupted Russian ground lines of communication along the Inhulets river. [112][113][114], From 1 to 2 September, Russian milbloggers reported further Ukrainian advances, but also a series of successful Russian counter-attacks. The current Ukrainian ground attacks appear to be aimed at driving a . I will not be surprised if it turns out that Ukrainian scout groups infiltrate the Russian-held zone to probe their defenses and see how deep it is possible to go, said Igal Levin, a Ukraine-born Israeli defense expert. Has done short reporting stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, France and Brazil and covered Hurricane Michael in Florida, Tropical Storm Nate in New Orleans and the 2016 Alberta wildfires and the campaign trails of political leaders during two Canadian election campaigns. The BBC stated that it could not verify these claims. In an update on Facebook, the General Staff wrote that "[d]ue to fears of de-occupation of Ukrainian territories," Moscow's officials in the Russian-occupied cities of Oleshka and Skadovsk [] According to the ISW, local sources reported on September 7 that Ukrainian forces had struck Izyum and Kupiansk, likely to stop Russian forces from reinforcing the front lines in these cities. 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He covers national security issues, as well as military technologies, production, and defense reforms in Ukraine. Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Oleksiy Arestovych cautioned that the offensive was going to be a "slow operation to grind the enemy", not a quick and massive campaign. KRAMATORSK, Ukraine Ukrainian soldiers, seeking to spread Russian forces thin, launched a counteroffensive on Sunday in Kherson, the key southern city that Moscow considered so . The war in Ukraine may be heading for its bloodiest phase yet, according to senior Ukrainian officials and western analysts, who say a long-threatened southern counteroffensive by Kyiv's forces . With dead orcs, destroyed ruskie tanks, burning mafia ammo and command posts and a cheering Ukrainian population! [74][75] On the same day, Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov stated that Ukraine was amassing a million-strong fighting force for the offensive. [50] In April, Ukrainian authorities said they had pushed the enemy southwards to the border with Kherson Oblast. [137], By 3 October, the Russian army was being enveloped in Northern Kherson, with Ukrainian troops trying to reach Beryslav. Ukrainian authorities are investigating hundreds of disappearances and cases of physical or sexual abuse of detainees by the former occupiers. [143] Novovasylivka, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamyanka, Tryfonivka and Chervone in the Beryslav Raion were officially under the control of Ukrainian forces as late as 12 October. While Ukraines counteroffensive does not signal an end to the war, it could suggest a shift of momentum in favour of Ukraine. All rights reserved. The Russian forces originally aimed towards capturing the major port city of Odesa from the southeast, but were forced back following their defeat at the Battle of Voznesensk, and ultimately only succeeded in occupying a small part of Mykolaiv Oblast, most notably Snihurivka. Ukrainian troops took control of the key logistical hub of Lyman in Donetsk at the beginning of October. The Dnipro River is nearly 350 meters wide near the city. Ukraine has already launched campaigns in Kherson Oblast as a counterweight to Russias large-scale offensive in Donbas. Ukraine has made it clear that it intends to take back Kherson, a Russian-occupied city in the south, as its counter-offensive gains momentum. They cut short the lives of at least 10 Rushists (Russian fascists), destroyed another mortar, two multiple rocket launchers and three artillery gun systems, with which Kherson Oblast was shelled, the General Staff said in its morning report on Facebook. If the West get the weapons to Ukraine, including planes, there is no reason why they cant evict the orcs from Kherson. [165] On the same day, the Russian occupation authorities announced that they were preparing to leave the town of Nova Kakhovka, located on the east bank of the Dnieper River. Russias logistical stretch in Kherson is the longest out any others in its war in Ukraine. Ukraines counteroffensive, which began on September 6, took the Kremlin by surprise, both in terms of speed and the dynamism of advances with large pockets in Kharkiv oblast being reclaimed. During the siege, Russian forces managed to isolate the city, with little hope for the Ukrainian garrison, but then desolated and stormed the city in a bid to gain a quick victory. In the past week, Ukrainian forces targeted Russian ground lines of communication, ammunition depots and military and transportation assets. On 10 September 2022, Taras Berezovets stated that the southern counteroffensive had been part of a "disinformation campaign" to distract Russia from the real counteroffensive being prepared in the Kharkiv oblast. In the event Ukraine manages to encircle Russian troops in Kherson, Ukraine would also have to make fast and firm territorial gains. One narrow road connects the de-occupied towns of Kupiansk and Izyum to the Russian border, but the Russian retreat did not clog it up, Mitrokhin said, suggesting that a deliberate decision was made by the Kremlin to leave the area and redeploy manpower to the Donbas. "Until we have a distance of 30-40 kilometres to the enemy, it is better for people to leave, to save their lives and health," said Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, a position akin under martial law to governor. [119][120] On the same day, Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian troops had captured Blahodativka village and withdrawn from a few positions near Sukhyi Stavok. [85], Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in Radensk (approximately 26km (16mi) southeast of Kherson City) and unspecified Russian positions in Nova Kakhovka. Market data provided by Factset. Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson reports from Kyiv, Ukraine on the latest in their defense efforts against Russia more than five months after the beginning of the invasion on 'Special Report.'. On 12 November, a video allegedly showed Ukrainian special forces crossing the DnieperBug estuary in speedboats and attacking Russian forces stationed on the Kinburn Peninsula. [133] In order to slow down the Ukrainian advance, Russian forces blew up a dam at the Inhulets river, flooding parts of the frontline. And, according to CITs Kirill Mikhailov, the more military power Russia is deploying to Kherson, the more problematic its logistics inevitably becomes due to the local terrain. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! [157] Ukrainian forces had also regained control of the village of Kyselivka, fifteen kilometers northwest of Kherson. [179] Thus, Russian frontlines in Kharkiv oblast were left relatively unprotected to Ukrainian advances. Now, after over 140 days of war, Russia claims Kherson Oblast is full-fledged Russian territory, and is threatening to stage a referendum, thereby annexing yet another Ukrainian region like it did with Crimea in 2014. Gaelle Girbes/Getty Images. May God and His Holy Angels fight for Ukraine and this just cause. [42] A referendum was reportedly planned by Russian occupation authorities in the region for late 2022 to annex Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, while the occupied parts of the Mykolaiv Oblast would be included in the Kherson MSA,[43] but officials soon moved the date forwards to autumn[44][45] amid fears of being set back by the Ukrainian Army, according to U.K. intelligence officials. According to the British defence ministry, in recent days, Ukrainian forces have captured territory at least twice the size of London. If the highway is cut off by Ukraine, Russian forces would have no way of getting across the Dnipro. [48] Western governments denounced the referendums as illegitimate and refused to recognize its results, and their illegitimacy was later confirmed with the adoption of United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4. "We will stand here," said Ihor Vlasenko, 60, who works for a heating company. (Zbroini syly Ukrainy, Armed Forces of Ukraine). He has also had deployments to Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an embedded reporter with UN peacekeeping forces. Military analysts consider the counteroffensive to be the third strategic phase of the war in Ukraine, along with the concurrent eastern counteroffensive, after the initial invasion and the Battle of Donbas. PUTIN-BACKED DONBAS LEADER SAYS IT'S TIME TO LIBERATE KYIV IN RENEWED THREAT TO UKRAINE'S CAPITAL. May 29, 2022. In an address to the Russian people, Mr Putin said his country had "various weapons of destruction", adding: "I'm not bluffing.". WE MUST ACT NOW TO PREVENT THE NEXT ONE IN ASIA, The update continued: "Its loss would severely undermine Russia's attempts to paint the occupation as a success. [65] On 7 July, Ukraine retook Snake Island,[66] affording Ukraine access to valuable sea channels and grain export lanes. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Among experts polled by the Kyiv Independent, these Ukrainian operations carried out by small groups were more attempts to probe Russian defenses and keep Russian forces away from Donbas rather than operations to make substantial territorial gains. Screen for heightened risk individual and entities globally to help uncover hidden risks in business relationships and human networks. Read also: Russian saboteurs active near Kherson, five groups on boats destroyed in one day. With the two Antonivksy bridges destroyed, the only other way to make it across the Dnipros right bank is in Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhzhia over 200 kilometers away from Kherson. Ukrainian targets included bridges across the river, as well as the roads, pontoons, barges and landing areas. Even though the Battle ofDonbasis far from over, Ukraine is expected to open the next chapter of the war sometime in the near future a highly anticipated, major counter-offensive operation in the south, particularly to liberate theRussian-occupied city of Kherson. There was gunfire near the centre of Kherson city. and "ZSU!" [22], On 9 November, Ukrainian forces were close to entering Snihurivka;[153] Russia announced the withdrawal of its troops from Kherson and the right bank of the Dnieper. They moved south along the west bank of the Dnieper and retook Zolota Balka[134] as well as Mikhailivka[135] and advanced further south to the next target, Dudchany. Should Russian S-300s, S-400s, Tor-Ms, and Buk-Ms air defense systems be largely suppressed particularly by the HIMARS which have already proved capable of destroying S-400s in occupied Luhansk on July 13 Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drones would have a green light to strike. Meanwhile, Ukrainian attacks also continued along the southern frontline, though reports about territorial changes were largely unverifiable. Ukraine would have to impose firm control over the M14/P47 highway that runs east of Kherson and connects the city with Nova Kakhovka, one of Russias key bases in Ukraines southern Kherson Oblast and the site of recent attacks on Russian ammunition depots carried out with the help of newly delivered Western weapons. [52] The Ukrainian military took advantage[53] with attacks in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, forcing Russian troops out or several fortified positions south of the Inhulets river. [91][94] However, Al Jazeera argued that both sides had seemingly fought each other to a standstill, with a major Ukrainian offensive not materializing. 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That's according to a Thursday update from British defense and intelligence officials. "But if the situation gets worse I will leave.". Russian forces used Shahed-136 drones recently purchased from Iran in the attacks, as well as ballistic and cruise missiles. "[62], Ukrainian officials first hinted at a large-scale military offensive in mid-to-late June, saying that "visible results" should be expected from Ukrainian counteroffensives by August 2022. [167], On 13 November, the administration of the Kherson Oblast called on Kherson residents and residents of other recently liberated areas on the right bank of the Dnieper to evacuate to safer parts of the country due to fears that Russian forces could "begin fighting against the civilian population". [99][100] On 27 August, Russian and Ukrainian forces clashed at Potomkyne in northwestern Kherson Oblast; both sides claimed that they had repelled an attack. 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