War: Russian Army Maps Show Major Retreats In Ukraine’s Kherson Region

Russian Army Maps Show Major Retreats In Ukraine’s Kherson Region

 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russian defence ministry maps show rapid pullbacks in the key Kherson region amid Ukraine army’s counteroffensive.

 

Russia’s forces occupying Ukraine’s southern Black Sea region of Kherson have suffered serious territorial losses to Kyiv’s troops over recent days, maps published by Moscow’s defence ministry showed.

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The ministry’s daily video briefing made no mention of any pullbacks on Tuesday, but the maps included showed that Russian forces were no longer in control of the village of Dudchany on the west bank of the river Dnieper, where Ukraine’s forces have been pushing to reclaim territory captured at the start of Moscow’s offensive.

 

In the northeastern Kharkiv region, defence ministry maps showed that Russian forces have left positions on the west bank of the Oskil River.

 

They appeared to have retreated some 20km (12.4 miles) to the east, as far as the border of Luhansk province, in the aftermath this month of a counteroffensive by Kyiv’s army.

 

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s military had made major, rapid advances against Russian forces and freed from occupation dozens of towns in the south and east of the country.

 

“The Ukrainian army is advancing in quite a rapid and powerful manner in the south of the country within the context of the current defence operation,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

 

He added that “dozens of population centres have been liberated. These are in Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions all together”.

 

The Ukrainian military claimed in a statement earlier on Tuesday that Russian forces in Kherson are “demoralised” and were falling back on their positions, destroying ammunition depots and bridges in their wake.

 

“All this in order to slow down the offensive of our troops,” the defence ministry said in their statement.

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Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of the Interior Yevhen Enin said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s forces had recaptured 50 towns and villages in Kherson, without specifying when.

 

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