Ukraine claims to have recaptured
12 villages in Kherson
since
yesterday
.
The news comes after the start of the Russian retreat from the southern region, the target of a counter-offensive by the Kiev forces.
Moscow's troops have repositioned themselves on the eastern bank of the
Dnieper
River , sheltered from hostile incursions.
The army managed "to push back the Russians and free entire portions of the Ukrainian territory. A possibility opened thanks to the
courage of the Ukrainians,
we have provided unprecedented support to
Ukraine
, also thanks to Italy: this support is making a difference ", commented the
Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg
, in the statement at the end of the meeting at
Palazzo Chigi
with
the Prime Minister
,
Giorgia Meloni
.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin, after yesterday's opening, reiterated, through the spokesperson of the Moscow Foreign Ministry,
Maria Zakharova
, his willingness to "discuss solutions to the crisis with the EU, but any proposal - he specified - should take into account the
situation on the ground and have an added value for Moscow
".
In the disputed territories, however, the Russian forces are undergoing the advance of Kiev.
Kherson was the
only capital
conquered by the Kremlin since the end of February.
The end of his occupation is "the result is the result of our active actions - said the deputy head of the main operational directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
Alexei Gromov
, in the briefing reported by
Ukrainska Pravda
-. Directly in the direction of Kherson, the Ukrainian defense forces destroyed the enemy's logistics routes and supply system, violating its command and control system, leaving the enemy no choice but to flee.
However, the alert remains high in the region.
Despite the announcement by the
Moscow Defense Minister, Serghei Shoigu
, the withdrawal "is not confirmed".
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the Kremlin troops have stopped the
evacuation of civilians
from
Kherson
, "for
lack of volunteers
. The city authorities in fact" have stopped paying wages and offering social benefits ", explain the Kiev media. meanwhile, the relegated army is transforming the capital of southern Ukraine into a "city of death" - adviser to the Ukrainian president
Mykhailo Podolyak warns in a tweet
- From apartments to sewers.
The artillery on the left bank "of the Dnipro River" intends to turn the city into rubble.
They arrived, they robbed, they celebrated, they killed the witnesses, they left ruins and they left ".
Fighting continues in the rest of Ukraine.
In the morning, the Russian army fired missiles on the
Zaporizhzhia
region , damaging
35 infrastructures and 11 villages, of the 16 attacked
.
The area was attacked 71 times, deputy head of the presidential office
Kyrylo Tymoshenko said
.
According to military analysts, Russia could try to blow up the Kakhovka dam to cover its withdrawal and "prevent Ukrainian forces from pursuing Russian forces deep into the Kherson Oblast".
Any attempt to blow up the dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, flooding Ukrainian territory and drying up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, will mean that Moscow is "declaring war on the whole world," President
Volodymyr Zelensky
said , Kyiv reports. Independent.
Also, for the spokesman of
the Ukrainian Air Force Command Yuriy Ihnat
, Mosta is stockpiling missiles for a massive attack on Ukraine.
"The enemy has not abandoned the intention to destroy our critical infrastructures - he said - the generals of the Federation have realized that the results of sporadic attacks with missiles or drones" are not enough. "The Russian plants now work on three shifts to replenish stocks of cruise missiles, Ihnat noted.
The Ukrainians are therefore preparing for new attacks.
A multi-layered and strengthened defense system is being built in the Kiev region,
Oleksiy Kuleba
, head of the capital's regional military administration, reported on Telegram.
"Today we checked the readiness of the equipment of the positions. Every day we work to improve and expand the lines of defense, including the capital."
The message was accompanied by a photo of the so-called
Frisian horses
(defensive obstacles covered with long iron nails and possibly barbed wire) placed in front of a sensitive building in the capital.
Meanwhile yesterday, Kiev's troops, in some areas, advanced up to
2 kilometers in the direction of Lugansk,
Ukrainian sources say.
A video published on Telegram by the
131st reconnaissance battalion of Ukraine
would then confirm, for the first time officially, that the locality of
Snihurivka, in the southern region of Mykolaiv
, has been liberated by Russian troops.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, in the last 24 Russian troops have suffered serious losses, particularly in the eastern areas of
Lyman and Avdiiv
: 740 soldiers of the Federation lost their lives during the fighting.
From February 24 to November 10, Russia, Kiev says, lost 78,690 soldiers, Ukrainian media reported.
A downward estimate for the US General Staff.
For General
Mark Milley
, more than
100,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded
since the invasion began.
However, the losses could be similar on the Ukrainian side.
These figures are the most accurate given by Washington to date.
The senior US military official also said he hoped the talks could end the war, as he believes
military victory may not be possible for either Russia or Ukraine
.
Precisely for this reason, the US will not provide Ukraine with advanced Gray Eagle MQ-1C drones, which could target positions within Moscow territory.
The intention, reports the
Wall Street Journal,
is to
avoid an escalation with Russia
.
Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is of the same opinion
: "Russia's decision regarding Kherson is a very positive step. Our mediation efforts are moving forward but we cannot give a specific date as to when a negotiation could begin" between Moscow and Kiev, he said, during a conference to Ankara broadcast by Trt.
Meanwhile, Moscow confirms that Russian President
Vladimir Putin
will not attend the G20 leaders
summit in Indonesia
next week.
The meeting would put the president in the same room as US president
Joe Biden
for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
Biden had called Putin a "war criminal", ruling out meeting him in Bali if he went, unless the conversation was about the release of the Americans detained in Russia.