what is known about the offensive in Kherson region
In the evening address on August 29, the President Volodymyr Zelenskyi did not make public the details of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region, but to bethat “Ukraine is returning its own”.
“Ukraine is returning its own. And it will return Kharkiv Oblast, Luhansk Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson Oblast, Crimea, without fail – our entire water area of the Black and Azov Seas – from the Serpent to the Kerch Strait. It will. This is ours. And just as our society understands it, I want the occupiers to understand it too. There will be no place for them on Ukrainian soil,” Zelenskyi said on the Day of Remembrance of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine.
He has understood for a long time that a decision has been made not to comment on the events in the South Buzka direction for the time being.
“Who wants to know what our plans are? You don’t hear specifics from any truly relevant person. Because this is war. And so – in the war.
But the occupiers should know: we will drive them to the border. To our border, the line of which has not changed. The occupiers know it well,” the president said.
“If they want to survive, it’s time for the Russian military to flee. Go home. If you are afraid to return to your home in Russia, then let such occupiers surrender, and we will guarantee them compliance with all norms of the Geneva Conventions,” he added.
Context
On the morning of August 29, the operative group “Kakhovka” announced that the Armed Forces broke through the first line of defense of the Russians in the Kherson region.
Subsequently, the initial part of the joint coordination press center of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine, Nataliya Gumenyuk, confirmed that “we already have the strength and the ability to start further actions in several directions, which is currently being carried out”, and “in certain areas, the first line of defense has already been breached.” The spokeswoman also emphasized that the units of the occupiers, formed from the fighters of the pseudo-republic, having found themselves without the support of the paratroopers, began to flee from their positions.
Later, with a message that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ordered not to comment on the events in the Kherson region. Therefore, there is no hurry to announce the successes of the strategic level of the command of the Armed Forces.
Channel in the evening CNN with reference to sources among the Ukrainian military concluded that the operation began at night, and the Armed Forces allegedly already liberated four villages (Novodmytrivka, Arkhangelske, Tomina Balka and Pravdyne). This information has not been officially confirmed.
Subsequently, Foreign Policy reporter Jack Detch published on Twitter the main points from the closed briefing of the US Department of Defense. The Pentagon does not directly call the intensification of fighting in the Kherson region a “counteroffensive” – for now it is something for preparation.
At the same time, the US believes that Ukraine quickly approached the parity of forces in the Kherson region than in the Donbass, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine “undoubtedly” reduced the ability of the Russians to regroup by disabling the main bridges. Also, the USA does not see a large-scale redeployment of Russian forces from Donbas to the south of Ukraine.
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