Ukraine has announced that it has launched a counter-offensive in the Kherson region
, in the south of the country and also this morning the presidency in Kiev speaks of heavy fighting underway in "almost all of the Kherson territory".
Olensky Arestovych, an advisor to President Zelensky, said
Ukrainian troops have broken through Russian defenses in several areas of the front near the city of Kherson
and are also bombing the ferries that Moscow uses to supply the occupied territory on the western bank of the Dnieper River.
But he warned the Ukrainians against expecting a quick victory in the south of the country.
Ukraine, Zelensky: 'We will expel the occupiers beyond our border, which has not changed'
The "liberation of Kherson is not far off," the head of the regional military administration of Mykolayiv, Vitaliy Kim, said on Twitter.
according to which today there was "heavy fighting" and the Ukrainian military "is working".
But according to the Russian leader in Crimea, Serghei Aksyonov, the counter-offensive is a
"fake news of Ukrainian propaganda",
and on the contrary the Ukrainians are suffering "extreme losses in the south and in all other sectors, but they must show the activities to their masters. Westerners ".
A denial has also come from the pro-Russian deputy governor in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, according to which there have been bombings that have targeted "civilians".
"Nobody is releasing Kherson.
, he added.
The head of the pro-Russian administration of Novaya Kakhovka, in the Kherson region, said on his part that the Ukrainians attacked the area, suffering serious damage and causing victims.
"The damage is very serious. The fires and explosions continue," he said, adding that information on casualties and damage is being verified.
According to pro-Russians, in the region there have been several attacks by Ukrainian troops and "several schools and social infrastructures have been destroyed, many homes have been damaged".
ANSA agency
Kiev, Russian defenses broken in several areas in front of Kherson - Europe
Ukrainian troops have broken through Russian defenses in several areas of the front near the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, said Oleksiy Arestovych, advisor to Ukrainian President Zelensky, according to the Guardian.
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Furthermore, according to the British intelligence daily bulletin,
most Russian units in the Kherson region are likely short-handed and rely on fragile supply lines
via ferries and bridges across the Dnipro River.
The report released by the London Ministry of Defense points out that the 49th Joint Army of the Southern Military District (SMD) was most likely reinforced with men from the 35th Joint Army of the Eastern Military District (EMD).
And
according to the London reports, the integration of these two units suggests a "significant reorganization" of Russian forces in Ukraine.
to.
"There is a realistic possibility that Russia has moved to streamline the various semi-independent operational commands that contributed to its poor performance at the start of the invasion," the report notes.
KIEV, RUSSIAN BOMBS ON THE CORRIDORS FOR THE IAEA MISSION
"The Russian Federation is deliberately bombing the corridors used by the IAEA mission to reach the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with the aim of diverting it to the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions."
This was reported by Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of President Zelensky's office.
Ukrinform reports it.
The same source stressed that Ukraine's position has not changed and that the IAEA mission should have access "only through the controlled territory of Ukraine".
The team of technicians from the International Atomic Energy Agency (
Aiea
) will visit the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia from
Wednesday to Saturday:
said the director of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, according to reports from the Guardian.
The mission arrived in Kiev from Vienna last night
The IAEA team that will go to Zaporizhzhia
The situation in the plant, in the hands of the Russian invasion forces, has been at the center of tensions between Moscow and Kiev for days.
The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced that "the Kiev regime is carrying out nuclear terrorism" in Zaporizhzhia
, and last night officials from Energodar, the town that hosts the plant, told Tass that two explosions were recorded near the plant. spent fuel storage facility of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which they attributed to an attack by the Ukrainian army.
According to officials, Kiev wants to undermine the IAEA mission to the plant in this way.
According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Russian-controlled administration of the region, "
Ukrainian forces have targeted key facilities of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with the clear aim of causing at least one release of contaminated materials "
ANSA agency
Moscow, Kiev attacks Zaporizhzhia to cause radioactive leak - Europe
A Russian official said Ukrainian forces are targeting key facilities at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to cause the release of radioactive substances.
The news agency Tass reports.
(HANDLE)
Ukrainians, meanwhile, denounce that Russian forces have captured 485 civilians in the Zaporizhzhia region and 207 of them "are still being held hostage": this is what emerges from a report by the regional military administration, according to Ukrinform.
"In the Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers have captured 485 civilians, of which 207 are still being held hostage
," the Administration said, noting that 278 people were released.
As is known, the first deputy mayor of Energodar, Ivan Samoydyuk, and the mayor of Dniprorudne, Yevhen Matveev, are both detained by the Russians.
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