![]() “For months now, Russia has been getting weaker, it has been bleeding its army on the field, it’s been losing a huge amount of equipment. Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at St Andrews University, added that Ukraine’s recent progress had been a product of a process, not a turning point. “At the moment, the bridges are being hit by Himars, which are scarce and very expensive … they can afford to open up against more incidental targets,” said Watling of the bridges supplying Russian forces on Kherson’s west bank. “There’s no evidence of surrender or collapse … like we saw in Kharkiv region,” said Watling, noting the political importance for Russia of holding on to Kherson city, the only regional centre it has managed to acquire since February.īut if Ukraine’s forces manage to break through Russia’s second line of defence, they will be able to cut the Russian supply lines with a wider range of cheaper artillery and trap them on the western bank of Kherson, he added. Military experts say Russia is at its weakest point, partly because of its decision not to mobilise earlier and partly because of massive losses of troops and equipment.Ībout 15,000 of Russia’s best-trained troops are struggling to fight off Ukrainians on the western bank of occupied Kherson, despite movements of Russian troops from the eastern front to the south, which has thinned Russian forces elsewhere.Ġ2:05 'Our families need it': Russian soldiers demand pay after mobilisation order – videoĪccording to Jack Watling, a senior analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, Russian troops around Kherson have retreated to their second line of defence to shorten their frontline. The losses came as Putin ordered on Wednesday his government to take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, but was met with the head of Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company saying he was taking charge and urging workers not to sign any documents with Russia. The retreat from the north on the right bank is a disaster" /xMGzzb9f5M- Francis Scarr October 4, 2022 But I really don't know what to say to you. ![]() "Friends, I know you're waiting for me to comment on the situation. War reporter Roman Saponkov is the latest Russian to despair at what's happening on the Kherson front The retreat from the north on the right bank is a disaster.” But I really don’t know what to say to you. “Friends, I know you’re waiting for me to comment on the situation. Stremousov said it was “impossible” for them to enter Kherson city.Ī Russian war reporter for state TV, Roman Saponkov, wrote to his Telegram followers that Russia was losing in Kherson. ![]() “We are regrouping along the front, which means that we can gather strength and strike back,” Kirill Stremousov, the Moscow-appointed deputy head of Kherson region, told the RIA Novosti news agency. Some Russian propagandists and officials blamed the losses on Nato. “Dozens of settlements have already been exempted from the Russian pseudo-referendum this week alone … and this is far from a complete list.” He named eight villages in the Kherson region. ![]() “The Ukrainian army is making quite fast and powerful progress in the south of our country,” said Zelenskiy in his nightly address on Tuesday. The territory recaptured is to the south of the city of Kryvyi Rih in the direction of Nova Kakhovka as well as west along the north bank of the Dnipro river towards Kherson. On Wednesday, Ukraine’s southern command said it had extended its area of control by six to 12 miles in the Kherson region and the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, confirmed the recapture of a series of villages. The scale of the recent defeats was underlined by a report by the BBC’s Russian service that said an elite Russian military intelligence unit may have lost up to three-quarters of its reconnaissance manpower in Ukraine. Putin’s comments comes amid increasingly gloomy commentary from Russian war correspondents and military bloggers over the severity of the situation that has seen a large-scale withdrawal from the Kharkiv region, the loss of the strategic town of Lyman on Friday and Ukrainian advances in the Kherson region. 01:57 Burned out military vehicles and shredded uniforms mark Russia's retreat of Lyman – video
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