![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a population of one million before the war, Kherson is a key agricultural area and forms the gateway to the Crimean Peninsula – annexed by Russia in 2014. Kyiv’s forces have been slowly clawing back territory in Kherson for several weeks but the advance has accelerated in recent days. Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of the Interior Yevhen Enin said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s forces had recaptured 50 towns and villages in Kherson, without specifying when. “All this in order to slow down the offensive of our troops,” the defence ministry said in their statement. The Ukrainian military claimed in a statement earlier on Tuesday that Russian forces in Kherson are “demoralised” and were falling back on their positions, destroying ammunition depots and bridges in their wake. These are in Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions all together”. He added that “dozens of population centres have been liberated. “The Ukrainian army is advancing in quite a rapid and powerful manner in the south of the country within the context of the current defence operation,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s military had made major, rapid advances against Russian forces and freed from occupation dozens of towns in the south and east of the country. ![]()
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