Ukrainian forces have retaken 46 localities in the strategic southern Kherson region as part of their counter-offensive, the local governor said Monday (August 1).
“To date, 46 occupied localities have been liberated in the Kherson region“, declared on national television Dmytro Boutry, the governor of the region of Kherson. According to him, these villages are in the northern part of the region, on the border with that of Dnipropetrovsk and in the southern part on the border with the heavily bombed Mykolaiv region. Some of the villages taken overhave been 90% destroyed and are still under constant fire“. The humanitarian situation in the region iscriticalsaid the governor, reiterating the authorities’ appeal to those who still remain in the region to “evacuate to safer areas“.
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During the first days of the invasion launched on February 24, Russian troops seized almost all of this strategic region bordering Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014. But in recent weeks, the Ukrainian army , reinforced by deliveries of long-range artillery supplied by the West, launched a counter-offensive. Kyiv forces carried out strikes against Russian warehouses and military positions and damaged bridges serving as crucial supply routes for Moscow troops in the city of Kherson. Last month, a Ukrainian official promised that the Kherson region would be taken over by Ukrainian forces by September. Russian forces captured the region’s capital, Kherson, on March 3. It was the first major city to fall to the Russians after the invasion began.
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