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[60][unreliable source?] [31][32] In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian troops pushed north and successfully defeated Ukrainian servicemen at the Battle of Enerhodar, thus seizing the city and the adjacent Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear plant in continental Europe. Russian Telegram accounts report mobilized units are taking whatever people they can get, regardless of specialty. The result is a large number of draftees stuck outside the base gate and forced to camp in the woods. A soldier, call sign Petrovich, stands in a trench on the Kherson frontline on Aug. 8. We lost five people for every one they did, said Ihor, a 30-year-old platoon commander who injured his back when the tank he was riding in crashed into a ditch. Shrapnel had sliced through his back and lungs. The commander curled up next to the wounded soldier on the kitchen floor. On that note, it appears prominent Russian mil-blogger Igor Girkin may have traded in the keyboard for a rifle. 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[81][82] By the afternoon, Ukrainian authorities claimed that Russian forces were transferring equipment to the left bank of the Dnieper, creating roadblocks within Kherson city in preparation for street battles. Russian drones and loitering munitions are still threatening Ukrainian targets, however. On 11 July, the Ukrainian army reported that it had recaptured the village of Ivanivka[uk] in Kherson Oblast. The smell of dried sunflowers lingers in the air. Their two bullets flew across the open fields, outracing the speed of sound. Ukraine continued to strike Russian targets and approach towards Kherson over the next week. Oleksandr said the Russian artillery fire was relentless. It's not immediately known whether the shooters or victims were part of mobilized Russian forces. Across the occupied south a wide crescent of fields, villages and cities along the Dnipro River and the Black Sea the Russians have built formidable defenses: trenches zigzagging along irrigation canals; fortified bunkers; pillboxes; foxholes; even tank trenches carved out of the earth by bulldozers and covered with concrete slabs that enable the Russians to blast shells from positions that are very difficult for the Ukrainians to hit. Forecast by Ukrainian officials for weeks, its goal was to push the Russians back from a strategic region along the coast, bolster the confidence of a battered citizenry and prove to allies that Ukraine could make good use of Western-supplied weapons. But overall, the south remains a different story from the northeast. He announced that they had been killed in Kherson by Ukrainian artillery attacks in the region. Soldiers described ending their shifts and turning on their phones to call or text family members a decision that immediately drew Russian artillery fire. [23], In the early morning of 1 March, Ukrainian officials stated that Russian forces had launched a renewed assault on Kherson and were advancing from Kherson International Airport to the highway between Kherson and Mykolaiv. [27], In the early morning of 2 March, Kolykhayev reported that Russian forces captured a railway station and a river port. They were just hitting us all the time, he said. Volunteers brought toiletries, including toothbrushes and deodorant, and bags of new clothes for the soldiers to wear after physicians used scissors to cut through their shirts and pants to expose their wounds. But for us, its progress.. [64], On 5 July, Ukraine launched a major bombing campaign against Russian outposts in Melitopol, reportedly killing 200 soldiers. The soldiers said they lacked the artillery needed to dislodge Russias entrenched forces and described a yawning technology gap with their better-equipped adversaries. [39][40] By early July, Russia controlled 95% of Kherson Oblast, 70% of Zaporizhzhia Oblast and 10% of Mykolaiv Oblast. When Ms. Kozyr stepped outside the next morning, to check on her calf and pigs, she passed by the kitchen and peered through the window. But Ukrainian commanders in the south always knew it was going to be a grinding battle. The Russians will kill us all! she said. Russian forces were still close by on the eastern river bank, and Kherson city continued to face medicine shortages, and heavily damaged communications, water supply, heating and electricity networks. Ukraine has discouraged coverage of the offensive, resulting in an information lag on a potentially pivotal inflection point in the nearly seven-month conflict. [42] DW reported that major equipment pieces such as anti-aircraft defence systems appeared to have been successfully transferred to the other bank, but this would leave troops stuck on the northern side vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery and drone attacks. . The move forces Russia to choose between maintaining its broad frontline or retreating out of the city and across the river. That left the Kharkiv region wide open for the taking, which is what happened two and a half weeks ago. Riyadh appears to be walking the center line on the war, mediating prisoner exchanges and providing aid despite angering the U.S. over the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production last week. Even the earth itself has been gouged by missiles and rockets, leaving moonlike craters everywhere, some with steel fins still sticking out. Ukrainian volunteer soldiers patrol in southern Ukraine. Two Russian generals were killed and one seriously injured. Many villages were reportedly contested. 2022Recurrent Ventures. Ms. Kozyr, who had watched the wounded soldier lying on her kitchen floor, said her village had been destroyed, too. The effort to retake Kherson is Ukraine's first major counter-offensive against Russia. You have to make jokes to keep your spirits up. ][30] pushing Ukrainian troops back to the city of Mykolaiv. [38] There were also widespread allegations of Russian authorities abducting hundreds of Ukrainian civilians across occupied territories. [50] In April, Ukrainian authorities said they had pushed the enemy southwards to the border with Kherson Oblast. "[7] By the evening of 24 February, Russian forces reached the city of Kherson and had secured the Antonovskiy Bridge,[8][9] which provides a strategic crossing over the Dnieper River and towards the important junction city of Mykolaiv. The Ukrainians were trying to recapture her village, the smallest dot on the most detailed military maps. She started crying at the memory of it, pulling a small rag out of her pocket and wiping her eyes. Denys, sitting upright on his hospital bed, said almost every member of his 120-person unit was injured, though only two were killed. where a Ukrainian offensive in Kherson presented a threat. In fiercely contested Kherson, Ukraine pushes to retake occupied lands. Her kitchen floor was soon covered in blood. [70] Residents of occupied Kherson in particular were urged to create shelters to "survive the Ukrainian counteroffensive". How can I leave them? he said. A Russian Telegram channel is claiming Girkin, a central figure in Russias 2014 annexation of Crimea and the Donbas separatist governments, is headed to combat in a volunteer unit. [22], On 9 November, Ukrainian forces were close to entering Snihurivka;[153] Russia announced the withdrawal of its troops from Kherson and the right bank of the Dnieper. [137], By 3 October, the Russian army was being enveloped in Northern Kherson, with Ukrainian troops trying to reach Beryslav. The battle ended on 2 March 2022 with the capture of the city of Kherson and a pocket of land on the right bank of the Dnieper river by Russian forces. We can have this outlook because were Ukrainians, he said. KYIV, Ukraine A long-awaited Ukrainian move to retake the Russian-occupied swath of south of the country appears to have begun Monday, according to both Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources. 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