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Ukrainian marines claim multiple bridgeheads across a key Russian strategic barrier
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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-dnieper-river-fe197bdd93119c29335162af1c8a8de4
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The wide river is a natural dividing line along the southern battlefront, and Moscow’s forces have used it since leaving the area around the city of Kherson in November 2022 to prevent Ukrainian troops from advancing farther toward Russian-annexed Crimea.
Western officials with intelligence knowledge, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive information, said Thursday that Ukraine has portions of three brigades across the river and was expected to make small gains as the Russians have so far been unable to repel them.
The gains that could open up a path to Crimea are considered small in the overall ground war, which intelligence officials said was essentially stalled despite a Ukrainian counteroffensive that earlier in the year had been expected to alter the momentum.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Wednesday lamented that the divided attention on two wars in the world had not helped his cause.
Russian defense ministry spokesman Gen. Igor Konashenkov didn’t directly address the reports of Ukraine crossing the Dnieper but said in the past day that its troops had killed or wounded 460 Ukrainians and destroyed two tanks and 17 vehicles that were either on the Ukrainian-held west bank or attempting to land on islands in the river.
When news of Ukraine’s advances across the river were reported earlier in the week, the Moscow-appointed governor for the Russia-occupied part of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said Ukrainian forces were facing a “fiery hell” in fighting in the village of Krynky and were being destroyed “on a large scale.”
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