According to Ukrainian information, Russia is currently conducting a tactical troop withdrawal to evade the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south of the country. These measures, they said, would leave about 20,000 soldiers isolated on the west bank of the Dnieper, far from their superiors and the main supply lines.
In a message on Telegram, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim said: “I feel almost a little but not much for these fools who were abandoned on the right bank. All commanders move to the right bank. ‘other coast.’
The important role of the river
The British Ministry of Defense said in a report last week that two important bridges providing access to the Russian occupation zone on the west bank of the Dnieper in Kherson could no longer be used for military supply purposes.
The report also revealed that thousands of Russian soldiers depend on two ferry crossings for supplies, and that chain is now more limited as well.
The Dnieper River is a key element in this war, whose main bridges and thus Russian supply lines in the occupied Kherson region were destroyed by Ukrainian forces.