Russian forces had just blown up three Ukrainian tanks. Russian tanks emerged from newly built cement fortifications to blast infantry with large-caliber artillery, the wounded Ukrainian soldiers said. He also claimed that schools and high rise buildings were damaged by the fighting, while residential buildings were being fired upon by Russian forces. You understand, if you dont do it, they will do it.. When the artillery shells hit, young men press themselves to the earth, hands cupped over their ears, mouths open to let the blast wave ripple through their bodies. And Ukraine's lack of air power may become a bigger issue if Russian warplanes prove willing to run bigger risks during any Ukrainian offensive. She did not provide information about the number of casualties, but Ukraines president, Volodymyr Zelensky, recently said that Ukraine was losing 50 soldiers a day. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine continued to conduct air strikes in the area, with Ukraine's Southern Operational Command claiming successful hits on three river crossings (Antonivka and Darivka bridges, and the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant) and two Russian battalion tactical groups. [69], In the morning of 9 July, Ukrainian government authorities began to urge residents of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts to evacuate from their homes due to an impending Ukrainian counteroffensive. Here are the latest control maps from the Institute for the Study of War, as well as the latest intelligence update from the British Ministry of Defense. Battle for Kyiv: Ukrainian valor, Russian blunders combined to save the capital, When Ihor fired on Russian soldiers with his Kalashnikov rifle this week, he said, it was his first time shooting at a human being. Home to 280,000 people before the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Kherson was the first major population centre in the embattled country to fall to Russian troops, and its Russia-appointed . Russian state TV commentators are at it again, this time with a galaxy-brain idea to proliferate weapons to American enemies in a bid to force negotiations over Ukraine. The Battle of Kherson was a military engagement between Russian and Ukrainian forces that began on 24 February 2022 as part of the southern Ukraine offensive of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Its believed the T-72s seen on these rail cars in Orsha, Belarus, will go to replace continued Russian losses on the Ukrainian frontline. But most spoke plainly about the disadvantages they faced. September 2, 2022 10:14 AM EDT. Kolykhayev also claimed that on 1 March, Russian soldiers shot citizens armed with Molotov cocktails. [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." [38] There were also widespread allegations of Russian authorities abducting hundreds of Ukrainian civilians across occupied territories. New video shows a Russian soldier surrendering somewhere in Kherson Oblast, a tense exchange that's growing more common as Ukraine pushes on and more hastily mobilized Russians face the frontline. The commander laid the young man gently down on Ms. Kozyrs kitchen floor and then ripped open a bandage pack and thrust it against his chest and neck, which were badly bleeding. Her kitchen floor was soon covered in blood. Countless homes have been damaged, including this one, where the remains of a rocket are still stuck in the fence. Part of the reason Ukraine is facing stiff resistance in the south is because of its highly effective information campaign about the counteroffensive. Video from the frontline shows an apocalyptic scene at a trench-line besieged by Russian troops for months. Soldiers described ending their shifts and turning on their phones to call or text family members a decision that immediately drew Russian artillery fire. SOUTHERN UKRAINE In dimly lit hospital rooms in southern Ukraine, soldiers with severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints recounted the lopsided disadvantages their units faced in the early days of a new offensive to expel Russian forces from the strategic city of Kherson. Civilians lined up for fresh water in Mykolaiv. The soldiers hands were curled, his body stiff. [84] On 13 July, the head of the Kherson regional military administration claimed that Ukraine launched counterattacks along the entire Mykolaiv-Kherson-Zaporizhzhia front line. Ukrainian soldiers in the trenches this month. The Post is withholding the names of hospitals treating soldiers because such medical facilities have been targeted by Russian forces through the course of the war. She said that when the commander first arrived with the wounded soldier, she panicked. Russian electronic warfare also posed a constant threat. [85], Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in Radensk (approximately 26km (16mi) southeast of Kherson City) and unspecified Russian positions in Nova Kakhovka. [78] A day earlier, Khlan stated that Ukrainian forces had retaken several villages in Kherson Oblast, but that the Ukrainian authorities requested civilians not to publish information on the progress of the campaign prior to official statements. Some people in southern villages have spent much of the past six months living in basement shelters like these. All of this has unsettled some Ukrainian soldiers fighting along the front line. They were digging fortifications in a village near Kherson. KYIV, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian military on Monday started a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russian forces in the country's south, its southern command said on Monday. [17] Later, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, claimed that Russian forces killed a journalist and an ambulance driver near Kherson. Russia captured Kherson a city with a pre-war population of . Ukraine has discouraged coverage of the offensive, resulting in an information lag on a potentially pivotal inflection point in the nearly seven-month conflict. 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As a minimum, [it will take] one week' to move them all (40,000 by his estimate). [97], On August 23, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Russian forces had advanced northwest of Aleksandrovka, approximately 38km west of the city of Kherson, and had reached the administrative border of Kherson-Mykolaiv Oblast. Ukraine had its first major success, pushing Russia back from Kharkiv, and counter-attacking around Kherson. [49], By 11 March the Russian offensive had stalled on numerous fronts within Mykolaiv Oblast, prompting gradual retreat by the end of the month. Ukrainian advances were also reported at Ternovi Pody and Lyubomyrivka. Musk tweeted "To hell with it even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we'll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free" days after reports emerged that SpaceX sent a letter to the Pentagon last month saying it couldn't continue free Starlink service for Ukraine as it has since the war began. [121], On 4 September, president Zelenskyy announced the liberation of two villages in Kherson Oblast and one in Donetsk Oblast. [10], By 24 September, U.S. officials assessed that the Russian situation at the Kherson frontline was deteriorating, with the local troops suffering from poor morale and largely cut off from supply lines due to the loss of bridges across the Dnipro River. [22], On 9 November, Ukrainian forces were close to entering Snihurivka;[153] Russia announced the withdrawal of its troops from Kherson and the right bank of the Dnieper. There was also a reported firefight at a Russian base in the Belgorod region. The village was on fire, in the middle of two armies blasting each other. Before we head into more from a busy day in Ukraine, The War Zone readers can get caught up on our previous rolling coverage here. The . Even the earth itself has been gouged by missiles and rockets, leaving moonlike craters everywhere, some with steel fins still sticking out. 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. Its terrible.. On the topic of foreign aid to Ukraine, there's also footage of a German Flakpanzer Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun in Ukrainian service. In Kherson region, residents report that the Ukrainian military is ramping up attacks on Russian occupiers, signaling a major offensive to retake seized territory. T he great wars of the 20th century pivoted on counter . That has complicated Ukraine's Kherson offensive but recreated the multiple fronts that failed so spectacularly for Moscow when it launched the full-scale invasion more than six months ago. Ihor, the platoon commander, said 16 of the 32 men under his command were injured and one was killed. [34] Ukrainians in Kherson also "questioned the Pentagons assessment, saying that the city remained in Russian hands". Russias "partial" mobilization is still looking rather pear-shaped, with personnel problems and few gains on the battlefield despite the unrest it created across the country. Two Russian generals were killed and one seriously injured. She started crying at the memory of it, pulling a small rag out of her pocket and wiping her eyes. [65] On 7 July, Ukraine retook Snake Island,[66] affording Ukraine access to valuable sea channels and grain export lanes. AT THE KHERSON FRONT, Ukraine The commander banged on the door furiously. Pirate and his partner calibrated their sights, gauged the wind a soft, side wind and counted: one, two, three. But overall, the south remains a different story from the northeast. Meanwhile, Ukraine intensified its attacks on Russian concentration points, ammunition depots, bridges and other targets. [130] The mayor of Melitopol reported that Russian forces were abandoning the city and were moving to Russian-held Crimea. But the commander just stepped through the doorway, desperate to find shelter. "[78], Writing a few months later in The Atlantic, military historian Phillips O'Brien remarked that it was unusual for a side to openly signal an intended offensive. [42] Footage on social media suggested that Ukrainian troops had captured several Russian tanks, armoured vehicles and crates of ammunition, contradicting the Russian Defence Ministry's statement that '[n]ot a single piece of military equipment or weaponry was left behind on the right [west] bank'. [122][123][124][125] On 6 September, Ukraine started a second offensive in the Kharkiv area, where it achieved a rapid breakthrough. He was dead. Reports claim Iran will soon send ARASH-2 attack drones to Russia. [24][25] Russian forces entered Kherson later in the day. Then they squeezed their triggers. [167], On 13 November, the administration of the Kherson Oblast called on Kherson residents and residents of other recently liberated areas on the right bank of the Dnieper to evacuate to safer parts of the country due to fears that Russian forces could "begin fighting against the civilian population". In a few weeks, the October rains will drench this area and turn the roads into impassable sludge. On 10 September 2022, Taras Berezovets stated that the southern counteroffensive had been part of a "disinformation campaign" to distract Russia from the real counteroffensive being prepared in the Kharkiv oblast. They used everything on us, said Denys, a 33-year-old Ukrainian soldier whose unit fell back from a Russian-held village after a lengthy barrage of cluster bombs, phosphorous munitions and mortars. LE POINT SUR LA SITUATION - Il faut gagner du temps pour accumuler des rserves et lancer une contre-offensive, qui n'est pas loin, a dclar le commandant des forces terrestres ukrainiennes. In no way effective in there circa-1940s anti-aircraft role, they are at best only viable as fire support against soft vehicles and infantry. He also denied that there was a "specific offensive operation". Denys and eight other Ukrainian soldiers from seven different units provided rare descriptions of the Kherson counteroffensive in the south, the most ambitious military operation by Kyiv since the expulsion of Russian forces at the perimeter of the capital in the spring. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [144][145], On 13 October, the Russian government announced evacuation of the civilian population in the city of Kherson, after a request by the Russia-installed head of Kherson Oblast Volodymyr Saldo. The move forces Russia to choose between maintaining its broad frontline or retreating out of the city and across the river. Weeks before the counteroffensive began, Ukrainian troops, including a sniper known as Pirate, started eyeing targets. It is indiscriminate and total. On 9 December, some Ukrainian officials, such as presidential advisor Oleksii Arestovych and Lieutenant Colonel Konstiantyn Mashovets, as well as some unofficial Russian sources, claimed that Russian forces, specifically the 80th Arctic Motor Rifle Brigade, 25th Spetsnaz Regiment, and 4th BARS Special Combat Army Reserve, had re-occupied the island following a successful amphibious operation. She shrunk back as her husband and the commander pressed bandages to the young mans wounds. There should be no doubt about this. They were just hitting us all the time, he said. One American soldier serving with a Ukrainian unit in Mykolaiv said it was no small feat to take villages from the Russians when the Russians knew they were coming for months. [46][citation needed] These referendums were held from 2327 September,[47] with Russia officially annexing Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts about a week later on 5 October. Russia's defence ministry acknowledged a Ukrainian offensive had been launched in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions but said it had failed and the Ukrainians had suffered significant casualties . [146], On 15 October, a major Ukrainian counteroffensive resumed on the northern Kherson front in the direction of Dudchany, Mylove and Sukhanovi. Tens of thousands of civilians and Russian-appointed officials are being moved out of Ukraine's southern Kherson region ahead of a Ukrainian offensive, says the Russia-installed local . ", "Kherson: How is Russia imposing its rule in occupied Ukraine? 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[106] An NPR journalist in the area confirmed the increased intensity of combat and that more Ukrainian forces were moving to the frontline. Summary of Arestovych and Feygin daily broadcast", "Ukraine launches long-awaited counteroffensive to retake Russian-occupied Kherson", "Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian defence minister sidelined by Putin and 'ridiculed' for 'ineffectual' leadership, says UK", "Ukraine says it recaptured 1,200 sq km of Kherson region in ongoing counteroffensive", "Russia abandons Ukrainian city of Kherson in major retreat", "Shots Fired In Ukrainian City As Locals Protest Against Russian Occupation", "Ukrainians question the ease of Russian capture of Kherson", "Russia's Road to Odesa Runs Through Mykolaiv", "Ukraine's Mykolaiv holds the line against Russian forces and delays assault on Odessa", "What happened at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and what are the implications? A Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson faces steep odds. Last but certainly not least, for fans of Her Majesty's Cold War armored cars, we have a formerly British Ferret Mk 1 scout car in use with Ukrainian forces. ][30] pushing Ukrainian troops back to the city of Mykolaiv. (Zbroini syly Ukrainy, Armed Forces of Ukraine). [169], According to Ukraines Operational Command South, on 15 November Ukrainian rocket and artillery units attacked Russian positions on the left bank of the Dnieper River and in the area of the Kinburn Spit. During the 2022 Southern Ukraine offensive, Russian troops invaded the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv Oblasts. [63] A Ukrainian general stated on 15 June that if Ukraine were supplied sufficient weapons, it would be able to mount a massive counteroffensive by the summer. [42] On 9 November 2022 General of the Army Sergey Surovikin announced that Russian forces would abandon the city and move to the eastern or left bank. And going on the attack is always more perilous than defending an entrenched position, especially when the enemy knows the other side is coming. [1][31], On 23 March, Ukrainian forces launched counterattacks against Russian forces in Kherson Oblast. In the city of Bakhmut itself, Russian incendiary munitions, likely from 9M22S Grad 122mm rockets, started numerous fires. [180] Ukrainian colonel Vadym Sukharevsky credited part of Ukraine's victory in Kherson to the artillery systems, guided munitions and long-range rocket launchers sent by Western partner countries for an article by The Washington Post. Forecast by Ukrainian officials for weeks, its goal was to push the Russians back from a strategic region along the coast, bolster the confidence of a battered citizenry and prove to allies that Ukraine could make good use of Western-supplied weapons. [5], On 26 February, Ihor Kolykhaiev, the mayor of Kherson, stated that Russian forces pulled back from Kherson after a Ukrainian air strike on Russian armored vehicles, allowing the city to remain under Ukrainian control. 2022 Kherson counteroffensive A military counteroffensive was launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts. Defense 'Ukraine doesn't have any time to waste': U.S. races to prepare Kyiv for spring offensive Washington is increasingly concerned about Ukraine's dwindling supply of ammo and air . I try not to think about who he was, Pirate said. And we can still win.. ajoutant la colre visant Moscou aprs le dclenchement de son offensive en Ukraine. Despite the high stakes, there is little face-to-face combat between the two sides, like there was in the early days of the war in the suburbs of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. The authorities reportedly erected a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the town square, introduced Russian curriculum to the local school system,[35] rerouted internet servers to Russia,[36] issued Russian passports,[37] and began circulating the Ruble. [13][14] Russian troops once again seized the Antonovskiy Bridge later in the day. [60][unreliable source?] It needed to be done, she said. [158] On the same day, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi stated that Ukrainian forces have taken back 41 settlements in the Kherson direction since 1 October. Russian forces began an occupation of Kherson Oblast on 2 March,[34] and the occupation authorities immediately began to consolidate their control over these territories. [172][173][174][175] However, this was contested by Serhii Khlan[uk], advisor to the governor of Kherson, who stated that Russia did not have any presence on the island. [91][94] However, Al Jazeera argued that both sides had seemingly fought each other to a standstill, with a major Ukrainian offensive not materializing. Smoke and debris after what was likely an airstrike near a Ukrainian military position on Tuesday. In recent days, Ukrainian forces have pushed towards Russian supply lines south of Kharkiv, taking several villages and towns in the process. [70] Residents of occupied Kherson in particular were urged to create shelters to "survive the Ukrainian counteroffensive". My people are there. [95][96] On August 22, Russian forces achieved some success east of the city of Mykolaiv and in northwestern Kherson Oblast, driving Ukrainian forces 36km from the front line to the north and 28km deep into the territory of Mykolaiv Oblast with two objectives, to force a westward direction towards the city Mykolaiv or in a northerly direction towards the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with the intention of capturing the city of Kryvyi Rih, which hosts a strong Ukrainian troop concentration, and from where a counter-offensive on Kherson, Melitopol, Enerhodar, Berdyansk and Crimea is planned. [32][33] A senior US defense official claimed that the Russian forces no longer had full control of Kherson as the Ukrainians fought "fiercely" to recover the city, however, CNN reported the situation in the city remained unchanged, citing residents confirming Kherson was under full Russian control. When one soldier appeared uncertain if the counteroffensive would be worth the toll it has taken, Oleksandr, who has cultivated a reputation as the hospital comedian, said it was important to maintain a positive attitude. The supply situation for these troops remains hamstrung after the October 8 attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge. [27], In the early morning of 2 March, Kolykhayev reported that Russian forces captured a railway station and a river port. The problem is that we are advancing with no artillery preparation, without suppressing their firing positions, said Ihor Kozub, the commander of a volunteer military unit near the southern city of Mykolaiv. [48] Western governments denounced the referendums as illegitimate and refused to recognize its results, and their illegitimacy was later confirmed with the adoption of United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4. Russian Telegram accounts report mobilized units are taking whatever people they can get, regardless of specialty. Ukrainian officials say they have little choice but to attack. . [22], Ukrainian officials alleged that beginning on 27 February, Russian forces began moving civilians from nearby villages towards Kherson, attempting to use civilians as human shields. [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. [83] Ukrainian authorities urged civilians in Zaporizhzhia Oblast to evacuate, suggesting that a major counteroffensive was soon to come. Shrapnel had sliced through his back and lungs. Odesa, Ukraine CNN On the first day of the counteroffensive in southern Ukraine, Mark Ayres fired more than 2,000 rounds from his Soviet-designed PK machine gun during fierce firefights with. [67][68], Meanwhile, Russia tried to strengthen its hold on Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts. If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.. Ukrainian troops retaliated with artillery strikes on the site of the Russian 247th Airborne Regiment of the 7th Guards Air Assault Division and the ammunition depot in Chornobaivka. So many sunflower farms, a major industry, lie burned and deserted. Sometimes, she said, there are just pieces of people left.. The battle for the south is a lot different from Ukraines lightning offensive in the northeast, where the Russian troops were clearly not prepared. As in the battle for Kyiv, Ukraines success is hardly assured and the soldiers accounts signaled that a long fight, and many more casualties, lie ahead. The Russians are determined to keep this chunk of Ukraine because it guards the Crimean Peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. Ukraine's campaign to retake the occupied Kherson region is "gathering pace", Western military sources say. Things wont be improving anytime soon, as bad weather at the critical chokepoint has reportedly suspended ferry service and repairs to the bridge, which could take many months to complete. You dont think about anything, he said. Pirate and another sniper hid in a tree line almost a mile away. [41], In late May, Russian government officials acknowledged plans to annex all three oblasts and were reportedly setting conditions on occupied territory within Zaporizhzhia. [10], By the early hours of 25 February, Ukrainian forces recaptured the bridge in a battle that was described as fierce and left dead soldiers and several destroyed military vehicles lying on the bridge. Command. There will be no return to the past. Denys, sitting upright on his hospital bed, said almost every member of his 120-person unit was injured, though only two were killed. The continued strikes have Russian air defenses trying to keep up, with the remains of a missile used by the S-400 system found after one such engagement. Ihor had no military experience before Russias invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. [108] Locals reported heavy fighting across the Kherson frontline, while electrical networks temporarily failed and evacuations of civilians took place. [131] Ukraine also claimed to have retaken Oleksandrivka on 13 September. Pinochet said his knee was shattered by shrapnel from a mortar that was fired after a drone spotted him in the counteroffensive. According to Kolykhaiev, the battle led to the deaths of around 300 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians and severe destruction of the city's infrastructure. Reports from @MotolkoHelp suggest Russian forces arrived at three rail stations in north and west Belarus, not in areas near the border with Ukraine. [143] Novovasylivka, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamyanka, Tryfonivka and Chervone in the Beryslav Raion were officially under the control of Ukrainian forces as late as 12 October. A Ukrainian artillery team waits for targets around a campfire, as they wait for targets for their 152mm cannon, which they call Revenge and captured from Russian troops in Kherson early in the . His replacement as platoon commander also has no previous military experience, he said. On 29 August 2022, a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the oblast began. [24] The Russian Ministry of Defense later claimed to have captured the city,[28] while Ukrainian and American officials denied the claim and stated that fighting continued. A Ukrainian soldier and his fellow tank crew members returning . An anonymous Western official stated that the explosions, possibly caused by a Ukrainian attack, had "put more than half of [the Russian] Black Sea fleet's naval aviation combat jets out of use. Russian shelling has destroyed much of the landscape in southern Ukraine, gouging countless craters in the earth. [26] Kolykhayev described the impact on citizens in the city, stating that many remained in their homes and in bomb shelters. [126], On 12 September, President Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces have retaken a total of 6,000 sq km from Russia, in the both the south and the east. 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