Ukrainian forces push back Russian units to clear 10-15km line from Dnipro River’s left bank
The Ukrainian forces attempt to push the enemy out of southern Ukraine and are seeking to clear a strip of at least 10-15 km from the occupied bank of the Dnipro River.
Natalia Humeniuk, the Southern Forces Group spokesperson, says this strategy will critically reduce the number of Russian attacks on the liberated right bank.
Humeniuk added that Russians are trying to find a way to "terrorize" the right bank of the Dnipro River.
We continue counter-battery work. Over the past day, we have assembled four tanks of different modifications, different models. However, we continue to destroy what the enemy is bringing up… They are trying to find a way to terrorize the right bank.
Humeniuk said that after the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant was destroyed on June 6, Russian troops withdrew 5-15 km from the Dnipro River. However, they continued to shell Kherson and conducted attacks even during the evacuation of people from the flooded city.
During a briefing at the end of June, Humeniuk stated that the occupiers were gradually returning to the same positions in the Kherson region that they had left after the flood caused by the Kakhovka dam explosion.
Previously, military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian Navy destroyed overnight a Triumf air defense system in Yevpatoria, in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukrinform reported, citing SBU sources.
