It is also very likely that the enemy is preparing a hostile counterattack with the next plan to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region,” the southern military command said.
Ukraine announced today that Russia has begun building a military strike force targeting the president’s hometown Volodymyr Zelenskythe Chestnut Richand warned that Moscow may be preparing new operations in southern Ukraine.
Russia holds swaths of southern Ukraine it seized in the early stages of its February 24 invasion, but Kyiv has said it will launch a counterattack. Yesterday, Tuesday, he emphasized that he had already recaptured 53 villages in the occupied region of Chersona.
In the regular briefing on the war in the south, its southern military command Ukrainian described the situation as tense and said Russian forces had attacked along the front line on August 2.
The steel-producing town of Kriviy Rih, where Zelensky grew up, it is located about 50 kilometers from the southern front.
“(Russia) has started building a strike group in the direction of the Kriviy Rih. It is also very likely that the enemy is preparing a hostile counter-attack with the next plan to reach the administrative border of the Kherson area”the southern military command said.
Ukraine is trying to increase pressure on Russian positions in the strategic Black Sea region of Kherson and is using long-range weapons supplied by the West to strike Russian supply lines.
Ukraine’s military said in a statement that Russian forces are searching basements in the area to convert them into bomb shelters to store military equipment.
Yesterday Tuesday, Zelensky stated that the fighting in parts of the Eastern Front in industrialized Donbass he is “just hell” in his late-night address to the nation.
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