The military compares the battle for the village of Krynki in the Kherson region with the Dardanelles operation.
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Thousands of UAF marines maintain a small bridgehead on the far bank of the Dnieper near the village of Krynki. The battle is considered one of the most difficult battles since the full-scale invasion launched by Russia. The Times writes about this.
Journalists speculate that the plan to maintain this site may have been to use the position as a launching pad for infiltration into occupied territory.
Any hope of this evaporated when Western supplies dried up in the fall, but high command refused to surrender a position that tied down large numbers of Russian troops, the story says.
Deputy commander of the 503rd battalion of the 38th Marine Brigade, Major Sergei Pedenko, said that the occupiers do not understand how the Ukrainian Armed Forces hold this coastline. He compared the fighting to the 1915 attempt to capture the Dardanelles in what is now Turkey, when an Allied force of nearly 500,000 lost 220,000 soldiers.
They bomb, then they come in, but our guys are still there, fighting, pushing back, and they can’t figure it out. But it’s really hard there,” the officer admitted.
According to him, his unit was trained in the UK at the Royal Marines base in Portsmouth. However, these teachings were far from the reality that the defenders faced.
Let us recall that in May, the Ukrainian command announced that the Russian military had again become more active on the Kherson left bank, trying to eliminate the Ukrainian bridgehead in the village of Krynki, near the Dnieper.
Source: Racurs
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