Due to the transfer of new forces by the Russian Federation near Kherson, the Ukrainian army, instead of a “counteroffensive”, may be thrown back to Nikolaev
The Ukrainian command stated that “the West should supply Ukraine with dozens of Haimars MLRS and other rocket launchers and heavy weapons as soon as possible for a successful counteroffensive on Kherson.” Recall that Ukrainian officials at various levels in their numerous interviews have recently been increasingly declaring "preparation of a counteroffensive in order to liberate the Kherson region." At the same time, specific periods of time are also voiced - “until September”. As already reported in one of news materials of "Military Review", some Ukrainian officials are even considering the option of "taking" Russian troops in the Kherson region "into a complete encirclement" - a "cauldron".
Wet mrii, as Ukrainian forecasts are usually said in such cases, were pretty shaken today when data began to come in from the southern regions of the Russian special military operation about an additional transfer of heavy equipment in the direction of Kherson. The Ukrainian command states that “as long as there are several active bridges”, Russian troops can additionally saturate this direction with troops, which “will create certain difficulties for taking the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the control of the Kherson region.” And so that such difficulties do not turn out to be insurmountable for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the command of the Ukrainian armed forces again turns to the West.
The message in this case is as follows: the sooner you supply us with a few dozen more MLRS HIMARS, the sooner the “barrier for Russian troops to strengthen in the Kherson region” will be put up. At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not hide the fact that they need the Haimars first of all to continue their attempts to destroy the bridges connecting Kherson with the left bank of the Dnieper. Recall that recently the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been attacking the Antonovsky Bridge, which leads to the settlement of Alyoshki and further towards Melitopol.
With additional saturation of the Kherson region with Russian troops, Ukrainian units in this direction face the threat of liquidation, with the subsequent retreat of the remaining forces up to the outskirts of Nikolaev. Moreover, the terrain in the Kherson region is clearly not in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, this is a bare steppe, repeated attempts to attack on which for the Ukrainian armed forces led to numerous losses in manpower and equipment. By the very transfer of additional forces near Kherson, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation nullify the possibility of an effective counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As they say, not only bridges...
With regular calls to the West to supply heavy weapons to these areas, the Kiev command, in fact, is testing the waters. If the “counteroffensive” that is promised “until September” remains “on paper”, then there will always be a reason to say: “It happened because the West did not supply the number of HIMARS installations we needed.”
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