Two weeks ago, a Russian Grad rocket slammed into his apartment building roof. [76] Later, Reznikov said that there was a misunderstanding during his interview, and that 1 million is the total manpower of the Ukrainian "security and defense sector". [64], On 5 July, Ukraine launched a major bombing campaign against Russian outposts in Melitopol, reportedly killing 200 soldiers. They need far more HIMARS, far more drones and, as you say, modern planes. Both towns were major logistical hubs for Russian forces in Donbas. May God grant the UAF many opportunities to do just that. He spoke to Reuters outside Kherson's stately administration building, missing several windows after nearby blasts shattered their glass. Moreover, it will have to hold on to what it gets amid Russian counter-attacks. [10], On 2 October, just two days after Russia's annexation of Kherson along with the Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and a day after Ukrainian forces recaptured the strategic Lyman railway junction in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian forces started the counteroffensive along the line from Arkhanhelske to Osokorivka in the Kherson region south of the Kherson-Dnipropetrovsk border. [150] That same day, unconfirmed reports emerged of Mylove being captured by Ukraine. Read the original article on The New Voice of Ukraine, Russia shells Kherson Oblast almost 80 times in the past day, killing two, injuring seven, Russian saboteurs active near Kherson, five groups on boats destroyed in one day, Russians strike public transport stop in Kherson, killing six and injuring 12, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff, King asks Duke and Duchess of Sussex to move out of Frogmore so Prince Andrew can move in, Biden Mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene With 1 Simple Hand Gesture, A Nebraska high-school cheerleader competed on her own after the rest of her squad quit. REUTERS/Rod Nickel. A key bridge into the city of Kherson is now out of action after Ukrainian forces struck . 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Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. [54] In late May, Ukraine launched minor attacks on the border between Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts. Ukrainian forces claimed to have 'broken through' Russian defences on Monday amid a new counter-offensive in the Kherson region. Liked Sir Foccus and Sir Scradges comments. But these campaigns dont have much to show for themselves. [168] During Zelenskyy's speech in Kherson on 14 November, the NOS described the situation on the ground as "a sort of unspoken ceasefire", and that "both belligerents had taken a kind of break and were not extensively shooting at each other." [141], By 4 October, as confirmed by Institute for the Study of War (ISW), several Russian and Ukrainian sources reported that Ukrainian forces captured Davydiv Brid, Mala Oleksandrivka, Velyka Oleksandrivka, Novodmytrivka, Starosiliya, Novomykhailivka, Dudchany on the shore of the Kakhovka Reservoir, Chereshneve, Novovoskresenske, Maiske, Petropavlivka, Trinofivka, Novavasilievka, Chervone, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamyanka, Pyatykhatky, Sablukivka, and Kachkarivka after Russian forces abandoned them to avoid encirclement on 4 October. 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. 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. Ukraine's campaign to retake the occupied Kherson region is "gathering pace", Western military sources say. 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These days, the central square is deserted. Many residents have now left for a second time, with the encouragement of the region's leaders. 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. To show key areas where advances are taking place we are also using daily updates from the UK Ministry of Defence and BBC research. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Experts believe it is extremely important that Ukraine inflict as much damage as possible to Russias air defense, and, at the same time, build up a strong and multilayered air defense grid against Russia. Russia used heavy artillery to keep Ukrainian forces at a distance . [38] There were also widespread allegations of Russian authorities abducting hundreds of Ukrainian civilians across occupied territories. Four regions of Ukraine, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were annexed by the Russian Federation in September.Russia does not fully control any of the four regions. Ukraine's success in Kherson resulted "in large part from the Ukrainian Armed Forces' (UAF's) innovative use of the US-provided Himars precision rocket system", according to Institute for the Study of War (ISW). If the West get the weapons to Ukraine, including planes, there is no reason why they cant evict the orcs from Kherson. 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. Within four days, Ukraine nullified four months of success of the Russian army that cost them a huge amount of victims, Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Russian expert at Germanys Bremen University, told Al Jazeera. People help each other in their own way," he said. [49], By 11 March the Russian offensive had stalled on numerous fronts within Mykolaiv Oblast, prompting gradual retreat by the end of the month. May 29, 2022. On 10 August, an unnamed Ukrainian military official told Politico that the counteroffensive had begun in earnest on 9 August. Ukrainian fighters were able to take advantage of a weaker presence of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, following the redeployment of Russian fighters to Donetsk and the southern axis, where a Ukrainian offensive in Kherson presented a threat. This is one of the favoring factors behind a potential Ukrainian counter-offensive. 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. The current Ukrainian ground attacks appear to be aimed at driving a . By David Brown, Bella Hurrell, Dominic Bailey, Mike Hills, Lucy Rodgers, Paul Sargeant, Alison Trowsdale, Tural Ahmedzade, Mark Bryson, Zoe Bartholomew, Sean Willmott, Sana Dionysiou, Joy Roxas, Gerry Fletcher, Jana Tauschinsk, Debie Loizou, Simon Martin and Prina Shah. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. []. It was the first major city, and the only . Areas in the west of the country, including Lviv, have seen missile attacks but no attempt by Russian forces to take and occupy ground. [146], On 15 October, a major Ukrainian counteroffensive resumed on the northern Kherson front in the direction of Dudchany, Mylove and Sukhanovi. Now as the front lines have shifted further east, placing Ukrainian forces within tens of kilometres of the border with Russia, President Zelenskyy seeks to go further, stating in a speech on Monday, We will oust them from our border., Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights, Russian state media and pro-war reporters and bloggers. He covers national security issues, as well as military technologies, production, and defense reforms in Ukraine. Russian troops withdrew from the key towns of Izyum and Kupiansk, saying that the retreat would allow its troops to "regroup". During the past week, Ukraine has inflicted a major operational blow against the Russian military, recapturing a swath of territory in eastern Ukraine including the city of Izyum in its most significant military success since the Battle of Kyiv in March, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). 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