2023-11-15 18:34:11
The head of the Russian administration of the Kherson region admits that Ukraine has established positions on the left bank of the Dnieper
“About a compagnie and a half [de soldats ukrainiens]distributed in small groups, is located on a section going from the railway bridge [au village de] Krynky »said Wednesday in a long post Telegram Vladimir Saldo, the head of the authorities installed by Moscow in the occupied part of the Kherson region. He is the first Russian official to admit that Ukrainian forces managed to cross the Dnieper to the left bank.
“The enemy was able to completely cross the border, sending for a time more manpower than our means of destruction were capable of destroying “, he wrote in his report, adding that“in passing and on the left bank the enemy had already lost at least one to two full-fledged battalions and that the average lifespan of a Ukrainian soldier on the left bank is a little more than two days.”
Mr. Saldo, however, sought to downplay the importance of this Ukrainian advance, claiming that the Russian army is subjecting “a hell of fire » to the Ukrainian soldiers present on the shore who are “stranded in Krynky” and “all [les] Additional forces have now been mobilized.
A company can consist of several dozen or hundreds of soldiers, according to the military glossary of the Russian news agency TASS.
Ukrainian troops hold the city of Kherson and the right bank of the Dnieper River for a year, facing the Russian army, on the left bank, which still occupies part of the Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts.
Asked on Monday about reports that Ukraine was consolidating positions on the left bank of the river, in the hope of breaking through Russian lines, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov did not wish to speak out, believing that it was up to the Russian army to comment on the situation.
According to Russian and Ukrainian bloggers and experts who analyzed open source intelligence, the Ukrainian army has managed to anchor forces on the occupied bank of the Dnieper since the end of October, in particular in the village of Krynky, in the southern Kherson region. A little earlier, the two news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS had announced in almost identical terms a Russian withdrawal in the Dnieper region, before canceling this information citing a ” error “.
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