Task force Kakhovka said Ukrainian troops broke through the first line of Russian defense in the Kherson region.
For months now, people in Ukraine have been talking about an imminent counter-offensive in the south of the country. And now, it seems, the expectations began to be justified. The head of the press center of the Defense Forces of the South, Natalya Humenyuk, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched offensive operations in various directions in the south, especially in the Kherson region.
Extraordinary success of the first line of defense
The task force Kakhovka released a video indicating that Ukrainian troops broke through the first line of Russian defense in the Kherson region.
“The 109th regiment of the DPR retreated from their positions in the Kherson region, the Russian paratroopers who were their support fled from the battlefield,” the message said.
Beware, the video contains profanity.
Ukrayinska Pravda’s sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine note that in some areas there was a breakthrough in the first line of defense of the invaders, but “it is too early to talk about anything concrete, a big front .”
Bridges were destroyed
In the Kherson region, almost no large bridges were left to the invaders who destroyed the Armed Forces of Ukraine thanks to the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, only pedestrian crossings remained, the Kakhovka task force reported.
“The situation in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region is extremely difficult. The large and formidable HIMARS destroyed almost all large bridges (Antonovsky railway, transport and Novokahovsky),” the report said.
Thus, the Russian invaders were cut off from the supply of weapons and personnel from the territory of Crimea.
In addition, on August 29, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Beryslav machine-building plant in the Kherson region, from which the invaders pulled equipment and manpower.
In Kherson occupied by Russian troops and some regions of the region on August 29, power outage.
“Berislav. Hitting the engine plant, where Rusnya is based. Hitting the post where Rusnya is based near the Maychansky North Crimean Canal. Hitting the crossing in Lvovo (Berislavsky district). Everything there is minus. Gavrilovka, Berislavsky district . Minus BK,” said the spokesman of the head of Odesa OVA, Serhiy Bratchuk.
“Evacuation” in New Kakhovka
In occupied Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region, an “evacuation from occupations” was announced on August 29, according to Russian propaganda source TASS.
Occupiers claim that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking the city, including from HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. According to Russian media, residents of the city are in bomb shelters, the air raid signal does not stop working.
Reaction to Ukraine
The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaliy Kim announced “changes in the direction of Kherson”.
“Also today there will be, perhaps, some changes in the direction of Kherson. You will learn about them in the news from the military. Do not give in to provocations from the Russian side,” said Kim.
Source: korrespondent
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