At a time when the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) and the Federation Council (upper house of parliament) were voting for the approval of so-called treaties incorporating the four Ukrainian regions into Russia, the Ukrainian army continued to launch a strong offensive against the Russian occupation forces in the battlefields of Unan and Udong. It besieges the city and plunders the land and reclaims a large area of the country.
On the one hand, Ukrainian troops, who dominated the battlefield initiative, broke through the Russian defense line in Kherson Oblast and advanced into the territory for the first time and directly threaten the army’s supply lines. Russian.
Both Ukrainian officials and Russian puppet leader Vladimir Saldo in the Russian-occupied area of Kherson state confirmed that Ukrainian forces on Monday (Oct.3) recaptured several residents along the Dnieper River, and at one point advanced nearby. by Duchani Villaggio. This means that the Ukrainian army advanced about 30 kilometers in a single day in the fight against the Russian army. This is also the first time since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war that the Ukrainian army has besieged cities and plundered land in the Ukrainian region and launched a counter-offensive.
“Let’s put it this way, the situation is tense, because yes, there has been a turning point,” Sardo told Russian state television, who was in Moscow for the “entry into Russia” farce.
“There was a settlement called Duchany, right on the bank of the Dnieper, and it was there, in that area, that it was hacked (Ukrainians). Some settlements were already occupied by Ukrainian forces,” he said.
A war briefing issued by the Southern Operational Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed that the Southern Ukrainian army destroyed 31 Russian tanks and a number of multiple rocket launchers.
The breakthrough of Ukrainian troops on Russian positions in the southern state of Kherson is very similar to the way they broke through Russian defense lines in the eastern Ukraine region, and it was after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a mobilization order. partial, threatening to mobilize nuclear weapons and illegally activated eastern Uzbekistan, completed on the occasion of the “referendum on joining Russia” in the four states.
Putin has staged scene after scene in Moscow in recent days as he seeks to annex the occupied territories of Donetsk Oblast, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye in Ukraine. The Russian State Duma and the Federation Council also voted on Monday and Tuesday to approve the annexation treaty of the Ukrainian territory.
But what the Russian military cannot achieve on the battlefield obviously cannot be achieved through the farce of the “Russian referendum” or the “annexation treaty”. The Ukrainian military recently launched a ferocious offensive on the battlefield, and the recovery of large tracts of land took place in two of the four “annexed” states by Russia, which is the so-called new “Russian territory” that Putin said he would “use all means” to defend.
Reuters reported that agency reporters witnessed rows of Ukrainian military vehicles in the eastern Ukraine region on Monday heading to the transportation hub and strategic location of Liman, which was just retaken by the Russian military last weekend. , bridgehead in the Bath region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his night video chat that Ukrainian forces have recaptured cities in several locations, without giving details.
“New settlements in different areas have been liberated and heavy fighting has occurred in different areas of the front,” Zelensky said in a video chat.
Although the Ukrainian government has not systematically announced the Ukrainian army record, people can still glimpse the clues from the news and videos released by the military and local governments.
A video released by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shows soldiers of the 128th Mountain Brigade of the Ukrainian army raising the national flag in a village called Milolyubivka. And this village is located between the former Russian-Ukrainian battle front and the Dnieper River.
Serhiy Khlan, a member of the Kherson state assembly, listed four other villages that have been recaptured by the Ukrainian army or are present there.
“This shows that our troops are advancing rapidly along the Dnieper River, getting closer and closer to Bayleslav,” Karan said from Reuters.
The Russian occupation forces currently have a total of around 25,000 troops on the west bank of the Dnieper. Ukrainian forces destroyed major bridges over the Dnieper, forcing the Russians to use alternative solutions to maintain supplies. Ukrainian troops launched a counter-offensive along the Dnieper River and it was eventually possible to form a siege of 25,000 Russian troops on the west bank of the river, cut its supply line to the river, and finally extract the nail.
Reuters quoted senior US Department of Defense official Celeste Wallander as saying on Monday that Ukraine appeared to achieve several battlefield goals, giving it “a very favorable defensive position when the winter war may subside.”
