“We suggested to all the people who heard us today to take the opportunity and go to the left bank part of the area Kherson to go,” said Kirill Stremousov, deputy chief of the Russian occupation administration, in a radio interview on Sunday.
At the same time, he stated that the situation was stable and the defense lines were being strengthened. The town Kherson lies on the right bank of the Dnipro and was conquered by Russia right at the beginning of the war of aggression. At the end of September, the head of the Kremlin annexed Vladimir Putin Kherson as one of four Ukrainian regions also officially for Russia. At the same time, the situation of the Russian troops west of the river has deteriorated significantly. The Ukrainian troops systematically destroyed the Russian supply routes across the Dnipro and advanced further towards the city in their counter-offensive in early October.
The new commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine, Sergey Surovikin, said in this connection that the Moscow troop command did not rule out “difficult decisions”. Observers interpret this as an indication of a possible troop withdrawal from the city.
Ukrainian fuel depot destroyed
According to Russia, it has continued its attacks on the energy supply infrastructure and the military in Ukraine over the past 24 hours. In addition, Russian troops have repulsed Ukrainian counter-offensives on several front sections, the Defense Ministry in Moscow announced.
A Ukrainian fuel depot in central Ukraine was destroyed. A depot “that housed more than 100,000 tons of aviation fuel for the Ukrainian Air Force was destroyed near the village of Smila in the Cherkassy region,” according to the Defense Ministry. In addition, several ammunition depots and a petrol reservoir for Ukrainian military vehicles were damaged.
According to British intelligence services, Russia is making great efforts to defend its occupied territories in Ukraine. This is supposed to ward off rapid Ukrainian counter-offensives, it said on Sunday in the daily short report of the British Ministry of Defense on Twitter.
The head of the “Wagner” mercenary unit, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced online in mid-October that his teams would set up a secure “Wagner Line” to defend the occupied Luhansk region. According to Prigozhin, it is likely that the Siwerskyi Donets river will also be integrated into this defensive zone, the British said. Published images show a section of newly constructed anti-tank systems and trenches south-east of the city of Kreminna in the Luhansk region.
The “Wagner” mercenary group, which is notorious for its brutality, has already served on the Russian side in various wars. A video recently caused a stir in Russia, which is said to show the businessman and Putin friend recruiting prison inmates to fight in the Ukraine war.
The British Ministry of Defense has published daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine at the end of February, citing intelligence information. In doing so, the British government wants to both counter the Russian portrayal and keep allies in line. Moscow accuses London of a targeted disinformation campaign.
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