President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s stated goal is to retake Kherson, a regional capital strategically located on the Dnipro River, which Russian forces captured in March after sweeping north from Russian Crimea. Operational details remain sketchy amid a near-total news blackout in Ukraine. Russia has provided little more information, other than to say that its invasion is yet to be planned. But as of Wednesday, three days after the attack, Ukraine claims to have penetrated Russia’s first line of defense around the city of Kherson. Recapturing the region would bring significant military benefits to Ukraine. It would dash Russia’s hopes of extending its hold on Ukraine’s southern Black Sea coastline to the key port of Odessa. It would also mean a Russian defeat that even the Kremlin might struggle to hide. According to a Ukrainian military adviser, the attack was already a strategic success. It forced Russia to deploy troops south away from its offensive in the eastern Donbas region. That complicated Ukraine’s offensive in Kherson, but recreated the multiple fronts that failed so spectacularly for Russia when it launched the full-scale invasion more than six months ago.

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Ukraine is adopting unusual military tactics in its counterattack. An estimated 30,000 Russian troops have been deployed across the Kherson region. But instead of confronting them with a sweeping World War II-style maneuver, Kyiv plans to erode their will to fight by choking off Russian supply chains and lines of retreat through a mix of careful missile, drone and artillery strikes, partisan resistance and close combat. . This anomalous approach avoids the devastating artillery barrages and missile attacks that Russia used to capture cities like Mariupol at such a high cost in civilian lives. Ukraine’s preparations for the attack began more than two months ago, with a precise series of rocket, artillery and drone bombardments unleashed on Russian supply lines and military infrastructure, some of them far behind enemy lines such as Crimea . Strikes at the Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson and at Nova Kakhovka further upstream have particularly increased the vulnerability of Russian supplies. “It may take a number of efforts, but it’s the end result — the return of Kherson to Ukrainian rule — that matters, not how it looks,” said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former defense minister and president of the Center for Defense Strategies. Tank. “Doing it successfully is more important than doing it quickly.” Even if the attack did not achieve its full military objectives, it would provide significant intelligence benefits, analysts said. These included boosting Ukraine’s morale and showing the country’s Western allies that the funds and weapons they had supplied were a profitable bet worth adding. Additionally — and very importantly — the initiative is intended to convey to Moscow that its plans to annex Kherson and other occupied territories through rigged referendums, as it did in Crimea in 2014, are doomed because Ukraine will not stop its efforts to reclaim them . The US State Department said on Tuesday that it expects that Russia is still planning to hold fake referendums in the occupied territories in order to claim that Ukrainians wanted to join Russia. “The political and informational aspects of the attack are really important,” said Anthony King, professor of war studies at the University of Warwick. “Even if the maximum military objectives are not achieved, it is useful after Ukraine has been on the defensive for so long to just have the confidence to go on the offensive.” Municipal service workers walk past damaged houses after a rocket attack in Mykolayiv on Monday © Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Success is far from certain. Although Ukrainian forces had led an excellent defense since Russia’s partial invasion of the country in 2014, they had “very limited or almost no experience [conducting] large-scale aggressive actions,” Sergii Grabskyi, a reservist colonel in the Ukrainian army, said in an interview on the Geopolitics Decanted podcast. The army also lacks the heavy Western weaponry, such as artillery, tanks and US-made Himar missiles, which have played a central role in its recent military successes. “Ukraine still does not see the weapons quantities anywhere near the ball stations it has discussed [with its western allies]Zagorodnyuk said. Compounding the difficulties, Russian forces have begun digging in defensive positions around Kherson that will be difficult to capture. Some of them these soldiers are considered paratroopers. Russia still maintains a huge artillery advantage over Ukraine. Even so, the ratio of Ukrainian troops to Russian in the region was “much better in terms of equality or parity. . . than it was” in Donbass, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense said on Tuesday.

There is also a precedent for Russian forces hitting a hasty retreat when they realize they cannot win, as happened after their failed attempt to take Kyiv and northeastern Ukraine in March. A turning point could come if Ukrainian troops surround the thousands of Russian soldiers stranded on the west bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian missile strikes have already worked to close off their supply and escape routes, rendering the two bridges on the east coast virtually useless. “The Russians are afraid of looking weak and would rather retreat than accept defeat – as they did earlier in the war,” the Ukrainian adviser said. “Or maybe not, in which case we’ll switch to close combat in a final push.”

title: “Military Update Ukraine Makes Its Move With A Counterattack In Kherson Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-30” author: “Richard Ollis”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s stated goal is to retake Kherson, a regional capital strategically located on the Dnipro River, which Russian forces captured in March after sweeping north from Russian Crimea. Operational details remain sketchy amid a near-total news blackout in Ukraine. Russia has provided little more information, other than to say that its invasion is yet to be planned. But as of Wednesday, three days after the attack, Ukraine claims to have penetrated Russia’s first line of defense around the city of Kherson. Recapturing the region would bring significant military benefits to Ukraine. It would dash Russia’s hopes of extending its hold on Ukraine’s southern Black Sea coastline to the key port of Odessa. It would also mean a Russian defeat that even the Kremlin might struggle to hide. According to a Ukrainian military adviser, the attack was already a strategic success. It forced Russia to deploy troops south away from its offensive in the eastern Donbas region. That complicated Ukraine’s offensive in Kherson, but recreated the multiple fronts that failed so spectacularly for Russia when it launched the full-scale invasion more than six months ago.

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Ukraine is adopting unusual military tactics in its counterattack. An estimated 30,000 Russian troops have been deployed across the Kherson region. But instead of confronting them with a sweeping World War II-style maneuver, Kyiv plans to erode their will to fight by choking off Russian supply chains and lines of retreat through a mix of careful missile, drone and artillery strikes, partisan resistance and close combat. . This anomalous approach avoids the devastating artillery barrages and missile attacks that Russia used to capture cities like Mariupol at such a high cost in civilian lives. Ukraine’s preparations for the attack began more than two months ago, with a precise series of rocket, artillery and drone bombardments unleashed on Russian supply lines and military infrastructure, some of them far behind enemy lines such as Crimea . Strikes at the Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson and at Nova Kakhovka further upstream have particularly increased the vulnerability of Russian supplies. “It may take a number of efforts, but it’s the end result — the return of Kherson to Ukrainian rule — that matters, not how it looks,” said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former defense minister and president of the Center for Defense Strategies. Tank. “Doing it successfully is more important than doing it quickly.” Even if the attack did not achieve its full military objectives, it would provide significant intelligence benefits, analysts said. These included boosting Ukraine’s morale and showing the country’s Western allies that the funds and weapons they had supplied were a profitable bet worth adding. Additionally — and very importantly — the initiative is intended to convey to Moscow that its plans to annex Kherson and other occupied territories through rigged referendums, as it did in Crimea in 2014, are doomed because Ukraine will not stop its efforts to reclaim them . The US State Department said on Tuesday that it expects that Russia is still planning to hold fake referendums in the occupied territories in order to claim that Ukrainians wanted to join Russia. “The political and informational aspects of the attack are really important,” said Anthony King, professor of war studies at the University of Warwick. “Even if the maximum military objectives are not achieved, it is useful after Ukraine has been on the defensive for so long to just have the confidence to go on the offensive.” Municipal service workers walk past damaged houses after a rocket attack in Mykolayiv on Monday © Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Success is far from certain. Although Ukrainian forces had led an excellent defense since Russia’s partial invasion of the country in 2014, they had “very limited or almost no experience [conducting] large-scale aggressive actions,” Sergii Grabskyi, a reservist colonel in the Ukrainian army, said in an interview on the Geopolitics Decanted podcast. The army also lacks the heavy Western weaponry, such as artillery, tanks and US-made Himar missiles, which have played a central role in its recent military successes. “Ukraine still does not see the weapons quantities anywhere near the ball stations it has discussed [with its western allies]Zagorodnyuk said. Compounding the difficulties, Russian forces have begun digging in defensive positions around Kherson that will be difficult to capture. Some of them these soldiers are considered paratroopers. Russia still maintains a huge artillery advantage over Ukraine. Even so, the ratio of Ukrainian troops to Russian in the region was “much better in terms of equality or parity. . . than it was” in Donbass, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense said on Tuesday.

There is also a precedent for Russian forces hitting a hasty retreat when they realize they cannot win, as happened after their failed attempt to take Kyiv and northeastern Ukraine in March. A turning point could come if Ukrainian troops surround the thousands of Russian soldiers stranded on the west bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian missile strikes have already worked to close off their supply and escape routes, rendering the two bridges on the east coast virtually useless. “The Russians are afraid of looking weak and would rather retreat than accept defeat – as they did earlier in the war,” the Ukrainian adviser said. “Or maybe not, in which case we’ll switch to close combat in a final push.”

title: “Military Update Ukraine Makes Its Move With A Counterattack In Kherson Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-26” author: “Harold Shenk”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s stated goal is to retake Kherson, a regional capital strategically located on the Dnipro River, which Russian forces captured in March after sweeping north from Russian Crimea. Operational details remain sketchy amid a near-total news blackout in Ukraine. Russia has provided little more information, other than to say that its invasion is yet to be planned. But as of Wednesday, three days after the attack, Ukraine claims to have penetrated Russia’s first line of defense around the city of Kherson. Recapturing the region would bring significant military benefits to Ukraine. It would dash Russia’s hopes of extending its hold on Ukraine’s southern Black Sea coastline to the key port of Odessa. It would also mean a Russian defeat that even the Kremlin might struggle to hide. According to a Ukrainian military adviser, the attack was already a strategic success. It forced Russia to deploy troops south away from its offensive in the eastern Donbas region. That complicated Ukraine’s offensive in Kherson, but recreated the multiple fronts that failed so spectacularly for Russia when it launched the full-scale invasion more than six months ago.

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Ukraine is adopting unusual military tactics in its counterattack. An estimated 30,000 Russian troops have been deployed across the Kherson region. But instead of confronting them with a sweeping World War II-style maneuver, Kyiv plans to erode their will to fight by choking off Russian supply chains and lines of retreat through a mix of careful missile, drone and artillery strikes, partisan resistance and close combat. . This anomalous approach avoids the devastating artillery barrages and missile attacks that Russia used to capture cities like Mariupol at such a high cost in civilian lives. Ukraine’s preparations for the attack began more than two months ago, with a precise series of rocket, artillery and drone bombardments unleashed on Russian supply lines and military infrastructure, some of them far behind enemy lines such as Crimea . Strikes at the Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson and at Nova Kakhovka further upstream have particularly increased the vulnerability of Russian supplies. “It may take a number of efforts, but it’s the end result — the return of Kherson to Ukrainian rule — that matters, not how it looks,” said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former defense minister and president of the Center for Defense Strategies. Tank. “Doing it successfully is more important than doing it quickly.” Even if the attack did not achieve its full military objectives, it would provide significant intelligence benefits, analysts said. These included boosting Ukraine’s morale and showing the country’s Western allies that the funds and weapons they had supplied were a profitable bet worth adding. Additionally — and very importantly — the initiative is intended to convey to Moscow that its plans to annex Kherson and other occupied territories through rigged referendums, as it did in Crimea in 2014, are doomed because Ukraine will not stop its efforts to reclaim them . The US State Department said on Tuesday that it expects that Russia is still planning to hold fake referendums in the occupied territories in order to claim that Ukrainians wanted to join Russia. “The political and informational aspects of the attack are really important,” said Anthony King, professor of war studies at the University of Warwick. “Even if the maximum military objectives are not achieved, it is useful after Ukraine has been on the defensive for so long to just have the confidence to go on the offensive.” Municipal service workers walk past damaged houses after a rocket attack in Mykolayiv on Monday © Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Success is far from certain. Although Ukrainian forces had led an excellent defense since Russia’s partial invasion of the country in 2014, they had “very limited or almost no experience [conducting] large-scale aggressive actions,” Sergii Grabskyi, a reservist colonel in the Ukrainian army, said in an interview on the Geopolitics Decanted podcast. The army also lacks the heavy Western weaponry, such as artillery, tanks and US-made Himar missiles, which have played a central role in its recent military successes. “Ukraine still does not see the weapons quantities anywhere near the ball stations it has discussed [with its western allies]Zagorodnyuk said. Compounding the difficulties, Russian forces have begun digging in defensive positions around Kherson that will be difficult to capture. Some of them these soldiers are considered paratroopers. Russia still maintains a huge artillery advantage over Ukraine. Even so, the ratio of Ukrainian troops to Russian in the region was “much better in terms of equality or parity. . . than it was” in Donbass, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense said on Tuesday.

There is also a precedent for Russian forces hitting a hasty retreat when they realize they cannot win, as happened after their failed attempt to take Kyiv and northeastern Ukraine in March. A turning point could come if Ukrainian troops surround the thousands of Russian soldiers stranded on the west bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian missile strikes have already worked to close off their supply and escape routes, rendering the two bridges on the east coast virtually useless. “The Russians are afraid of looking weak and would rather retreat than accept defeat – as they did earlier in the war,” the Ukrainian adviser said. “Or maybe not, in which case we’ll switch to close combat in a final push.”

title: “Military Update Ukraine Makes Its Move With A Counterattack In Kherson Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-02” author: “Elvis Begay”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s stated goal is to retake Kherson, a regional capital strategically located on the Dnipro River, which Russian forces captured in March after sweeping north from Russian Crimea. Operational details remain sketchy amid a near-total news blackout in Ukraine. Russia has provided little more information, other than to say that its invasion is yet to be planned. But as of Wednesday, three days after the attack, Ukraine claims to have penetrated Russia’s first line of defense around the city of Kherson. Recapturing the region would bring significant military benefits to Ukraine. It would dash Russia’s hopes of extending its hold on Ukraine’s southern Black Sea coastline to the key port of Odessa. It would also mean a Russian defeat that even the Kremlin might struggle to hide. According to a Ukrainian military adviser, the attack was already a strategic success. It forced Russia to deploy troops south away from its offensive in the eastern Donbas region. That complicated Ukraine’s offensive in Kherson, but recreated the multiple fronts that failed so spectacularly for Russia when it launched the full-scale invasion more than six months ago.

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Ukraine is adopting unusual military tactics in its counterattack. An estimated 30,000 Russian troops have been deployed across the Kherson region. But instead of confronting them with a sweeping World War II-style maneuver, Kyiv plans to erode their will to fight by choking off Russian supply chains and lines of retreat through a mix of careful missile, drone and artillery strikes, partisan resistance and close combat. . This anomalous approach avoids the devastating artillery barrages and missile attacks that Russia used to capture cities like Mariupol at such a high cost in civilian lives. Ukraine’s preparations for the attack began more than two months ago, with a precise series of rocket, artillery and drone bombardments unleashed on Russian supply lines and military infrastructure, some of them far behind enemy lines such as Crimea . Strikes at the Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson and at Nova Kakhovka further upstream have particularly increased the vulnerability of Russian supplies. “It may take a number of efforts, but it’s the end result — the return of Kherson to Ukrainian rule — that matters, not how it looks,” said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former defense minister and president of the Center for Defense Strategies. Tank. “Doing it successfully is more important than doing it quickly.” Even if the attack did not achieve its full military objectives, it would provide significant intelligence benefits, analysts said. These included boosting Ukraine’s morale and showing the country’s Western allies that the funds and weapons they had supplied were a profitable bet worth adding. Additionally — and very importantly — the initiative is intended to convey to Moscow that its plans to annex Kherson and other occupied territories through rigged referendums, as it did in Crimea in 2014, are doomed because Ukraine will not stop its efforts to reclaim them . The US State Department said on Tuesday that it expects that Russia is still planning to hold fake referendums in the occupied territories in order to claim that Ukrainians wanted to join Russia. “The political and informational aspects of the attack are really important,” said Anthony King, professor of war studies at the University of Warwick. “Even if the maximum military objectives are not achieved, it is useful after Ukraine has been on the defensive for so long to just have the confidence to go on the offensive.” Municipal service workers walk past damaged houses after a rocket attack in Mykolayiv on Monday © Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Success is far from certain. Although Ukrainian forces had led an excellent defense since Russia’s partial invasion of the country in 2014, they had “very limited or almost no experience [conducting] large-scale aggressive actions,” Sergii Grabskyi, a reservist colonel in the Ukrainian army, said in an interview on the Geopolitics Decanted podcast. The army also lacks the heavy Western weaponry, such as artillery, tanks and US-made Himar missiles, which have played a central role in its recent military successes. “Ukraine still does not see the weapons quantities anywhere near the ball stations it has discussed [with its western allies]Zagorodnyuk said. Compounding the difficulties, Russian forces have begun digging in defensive positions around Kherson that will be difficult to capture. Some of them these soldiers are considered paratroopers. Russia still maintains a huge artillery advantage over Ukraine. Even so, the ratio of Ukrainian troops to Russian in the region was “much better in terms of equality or parity. . . than it was” in Donbass, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense said on Tuesday.

There is also a precedent for Russian forces hitting a hasty retreat when they realize they cannot win, as happened after their failed attempt to take Kyiv and northeastern Ukraine in March. A turning point could come if Ukrainian troops surround the thousands of Russian soldiers stranded on the west bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian missile strikes have already worked to close off their supply and escape routes, rendering the two bridges on the east coast virtually useless. “The Russians are afraid of looking weak and would rather retreat than accept defeat – as they did earlier in the war,” the Ukrainian adviser said. “Or maybe not, in which case we’ll switch to close combat in a final push.”