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Russian Forces Fortify Lines of Defense in Southern Ukraine


Russian forces are digging trenches and erecting fences to bolster their defenses against the possibility of a new Ukrainian offensive in the south after Moscow lost a key city there, a research group said in a report published Sunday.

Since Moscow ordered the withdrawal of troops from the city of Kherson earlier this month and to the east bank of the Dnipro River, Russian forces have been work to fortify their defenses in the region, as the gateway to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

“Russian defensive positions show that the Russian military leadership considers the prospect of Ukraine counter-attacking across the Dnipro River as a serious threat,” said the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. said. in the report. The report did not predict whether Ukrainian forces would attempt such a border crossing.

Ukraine’s rivers have proved a formidable obstacle for both sides of the conflict, with efforts to overcome them often placing militaries in vulnerable positions. Analysts say that any concerted attempt by Ukrainian forces to cross the Dnipro River will most likely involve thorough preparation.

Russia begins to build a chain defensive position east of the Kherson region in October, the report said. Satellite image taken on 15 November – four days after Ukrainian forces victory over the city of Kherson — shows trenches and concrete anti-tank defenses, pyramid-shaped concrete blocks lined up, the report said, adding that Russian forces appear to be trying protect important logistics routes.

At the same time, Russia relocated some of its authorized administrators from Nova Kakhovka, a town on the east bank of the river where an attack took place. hydropower plants — an obvious precaution, according to the National Center of Resistance of Ukraine, a military organization that reports on Russian-occupied areas of the country. Report could not be verified.

Ukrainian authorities have refused to provide details of military operations in the south since the recapture of Kherson. Natalia Humeniuk, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian army’s Southern Command, said on Monday that an operation aimed at taking control Kinburn Spita peninsula at the mouth of the Dnipro river is taking place.

“This is very hard work,” she told the national broadcaster, citing increasingly severe weather conditions as winter approaches, as well as the peninsula’s location.

Ukraine’s efforts to regain territory captured in the nine months since the full-scale Russian invasion began have been in waves. Some military analysts say a relative pause is underway in the south after Ukraine’s recapture of Kherson, as both sides try to regroup and renew their forces while the heat picks up. reduced.

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