We shouldn't be expecting good news right now," said Vladimir Solovyov, the most prominent presenter on state TV. "For a certain period of time, things won't be easy for us. Putin has been responding to Russia's failures on the battlefield over the past month by escalating - proclaiming the annexation of occupied territory, calling up tens of thousands of men as reservists and threatening nuclear retaliation.īut Russia's flagging fortunes have led to a shift in mood on once triumphal state media, where talkshow hosts have been acknowledging setbacks and searching for scapegoats. "A month of our work destroying their supplies and reducing the combat effectiveness of this group means that they are functioning on minimal rations in terms of ammunition, fuel and food." the Russian army has already lost the ability to attack, and today or tomorrow it could lose the ability to defend," said Oleh Zhdanov, a military analyst based in Kyiv. "The fact we have broken through the front means that. A substantial advance down river could cut them off entirely. Ukraine has already destroyed the main bridges, forcing Russian forces to use makeshift crossings. In the south, Ukraine's advance targets supply lines for as many as 25,000 Russian troops on the west bank of the Dnipro.
That has opened the way for it to advance deep into Luhansk province, threatening the main supply routes to territory Moscow captured in some of the war's bloodiest battles in June and July. Just hours after a concert on Moscow's Red Square on Friday where Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to be Russian territory forever, Ukraine recaptured Lyman, the main Russian bastion in the north of Donetsk province. The advance in the south mirrors the tactics that have brought Kyiv major gains since the start of September in eastern Ukraine, where its forces swiftly seized territory to gain control of Russian supply lines, cutting off larger Russian forces and forcing them to retreat. Reuters could not immediately verify where the images of flags had been recorded. "Officially, there is no such information yet, but the (Russian) social media pages which are panicking. "It means that our armed forces are moving powerfully along the banks of the Dnipro nearer to Beryslav," he said. Serhiy Khlan, a Kherson regional council member, also listed Osokorivka, Mykhailivka, Khreschenikvka and Zoloto Balka as villages recaptured, or where Ukrainian troops had been photographed. Soldiers from Ukraine's 128th Mountain Assault Brigade raised the country's blue and yellow flag in Myrolyubivka, a village between the former front and the Dnipro, according to a video released by the Defence Ministry.Īnton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior ministry, posted a photo of Ukrainian soldiers posing with their flag draping a golden statue of an angel in a village he said was Mikhailivka, on the river bank around 20 km beyond the previous front. While Kyiv has yet to give an account of the developments, military and regional officials did release some details.
There are settlements that are occupied by Ukrainian forces," he said.ĭudchany is around 30km south of where the front stood before the breakthrough, indicating the fastest advance of the war so far in the south, where Russian forces had been dug into heavily reinforced positions along a mainly static front line since the early weeks of the invasion. "There's a settlement called Dudchany, right along the Dnipro River, and right there, in that region, there was a breakthrough. "The information is tense, let's put it that way, because, yes there were indeed breakthroughs," Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed leader in occupied parts of Ukraine's Kherson province, told Russian state television. The breakthrough mirrors recent Ukrainian successes in the east that have turned the tide in the war against Russia, even as Moscow has tried to raise the stakes by annexing territory, ordering mobilisation and threatening nuclear retaliation. Kyiv gave little information about the gains, but Russian sources acknowledged that a Ukrainian tank offensive had advanced dozens of kilometres along the river's west bank, recapturing a number of villages along the way. Photo: Reuters Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the country's south since the war began, bursting across Russian lines and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River, threatening supply lines for thousands of Russian troops. The Ukrainian military has made strong advances in the south of the country, cutting off supply lines to an estimated 25,000 Russian soldiers.
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