LONDON (Reuters) According to a statement from the British Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, the Ukrainian military has increased the artillery bombardment of southern Ukraine as its long-range precise attacks continue to hamper Russian supply.
Russia has been attempting to bolster its soldiers on the western bank of the Dnipro River near Kherson since the beginning of August, the ministry noted in its daily intelligence report.
As part of their counteroffensive in the south, Ukrainian forces reportedly breached Russian positions in a number of areas of the front line near Kherson on Monday, according to Oleksiy Aristovich, a senior assistant to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to Aristovich, Ukrainian forces are hitting the boats Moscow uses to supply an outpost of Russian-occupied territory on the western bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region, according to a video interview posted on YouTube.
Although Russia claimed that the offensive had been unsuccessful, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Russian forces to withdraw after his forces attacked near the city of Kherson in the country’s south. Zelensky said that the Ukrainian army was reclaiming its territory.
After several weeks of largely inaction in a conflict that has resulted in thousands of deaths, millions of displaced people, the destruction of cities, and the imposition of unprecedented economic sanctions, there was an attack on Kyiv.
The village of Nova Kakhovka in southern Ukraine was left without electricity or running water on Monday after a barrage of missiles from Ukrainian forces were launched at it, according to representatives of the local authority there that Moscow installed.
A significant counterattack by Ukrainian forces earlier on Monday, supported by advanced Western military assistance, was launched against the town, which lies east of Kherson City, in an effort to retake southern territory that Russian forces have held since their invasion six months prior.
According to the Russian Information Agency, which cited the Defense Ministry, Ukrainian forces attempted to launch an attack in the districts of Mykolaiv and Kherson but suffered significant losses.
The agency was informed by representatives of the Moscow-appointed local government that a barrage of Ukrainian missiles had shut off water and electricity in the Russian-occupied town of Nova Kakhovka, despite the fact that the enemy’s invasion effort had failed miserably, she added.
Officials and witnesses in Mykolaiv reported that a fresh Russian airstrike on the seaside city, which the Russians repeatedly bombed throughout the war but which the Ukrainians managed to hold onto, resulted in at least two casualties, 24 injuries, and the destruction of homes.
The fight, which has mostly devolved into a war of attrition, especially in the south and east, and has been dominated by artillery and air strikes, is the greatest attack on a European nation since 1945.
In the early stages of the conflict, Russia seized a significant portion of the south.
The Kherson region, which is to the north of Crimea and was annexed by Russia in 2014, was one of the offensive manoeuvres that the Ukrainian Southern Command said on Monday that its soldiers had begun.
Although the enemy had clearly been damaged by Ukraine’s recent bombing of more than a dozen places, a command spokeswoman claimed that Russian forces in the south were still quite formidable.
Russian defences are breached by Ukrainian forces, who then step up their attacks in the south.
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