Ukraine ‘shelling Russian provide ferries’ on Dnipro River

Vicious battles are raging close to Kherson in southern Ukraine after Kyiv introduced the launch of a counter-offensive within the area.

It needs to push Russian troops out of Kherson — captured within the early days of the warfare — and again throughout the Dnipro River.

Ukraine mentioned its forces had destroyed “a variety of Russian ammunition depots” and “all main bridges” that enable autos to cross the Dnieper.

However Moscow mentioned it had repelled Ukrainian “offensive makes an attempt” within the Kherson area in addition to in that of Mykolaiv, additional west.

“As a result of failure of the Ukrainian offensive (…) the enemy suffered heavy losses of 1,200 males,” mentioned Russia’s defence ministry. 

Euronews can not independently confirm both of those claims.

In a each day intelligence replace, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) mentioned that Ukrainian armoured forces have been persevering with to assault Russian troops throughout a number of axes in south Ukraine. 

Ukraine’s troops have pushed “the entrance line again a ways in locations, exploiting comparatively thinly held Russian defences,” it continued. 

In response, Russia will doubtless try and “plug gaps in its defences” with reserve models, together with some from the east of Ukraine, the MoD added. 

The Insitute for the Examine of Struggle mentioned that the Kremlin would “doubtless exploit the dearth of an instantaneous victory” in Kherson “to misrepresent Ukrainian efforts as failing and to undermine public confidence”. 

It continued that Ukrainian operational silence on the progress of their counter-offensive might add to this.  

Just like the MoD, the US-based suppose tank reported that Ukrainian forces have been persevering with with “floor assaults and strikes towards” Russian forces throughout the Dnipro River. 

“Ukrainian forces made positive factors on the bottom and have begun placing [Russian] pontoon ferries throughout the river,” it added. 

Amid the unfolding operation within the south, Russia intensified its assaults on a number of Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, killing 4 and injuring 11 civilians in Kharkiv to the northeast of Ukraine. 

A spokesperson for Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command Vladyslav mentioned on Monday night time that Ukraine had launched two air strikes in a single day on Russian positions within the occupied cities of Kyselivka, west of Kherson, and Kostyrka, north of the regional capital.

Nazarov mentioned Ukraine had additionally performed greater than 220 strikes utilizing rockets and artillery towards undisclosed targets, including this included three broken bridges “to verify their inoperable standing.” 

Yesterday Russia’s defence ministry claimed that it had “defeated” the Ukrainian offensive, which was carried out on Zelenskyy’s private orders. 

Once more Euronews can not independently confirm these claims. 

It claimed had inflicted “important” losses on Ukrainian forces, saying it had destroyed scores of tanks and different armoured preventing autos. 

Situated on the Black Sea, Russia seized Kherson metropolis — which had a pre-war inhabitants of 280,000 — at the beginning of the warfare in March.