Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday claimed his country is prepared to negotiate on the war he inflicted with Ukraine and its Western allies, comments that Ukraine quickly pushed back a...
Tag: Kherson
Russian Trenches In Southern Ukraine Are Too Short To Stop A Ukrainian Attack
Ukrainian artillery. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It’s been three weeks since Ukrainian brigades forced Russian troops across the wide Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, liberating Kherson city and...
The Ukrainian Navy Still Has One Big Amphibious Ship. She’d Be Pretty Useful Right About Now.
‘Yuri Olefirenko’ in happier times, before the current war. Ukrainian navy photo There might be just one big ship left in the Ukrainian navy—the amphibious landing vessel Yuri Olefirenko. ...
Ukrainian Territorials Are Wearing Down Russian Defenses In Zaporizhzhia. Are They Preparing For A Counteroffensive?
A 110th Territorial Brigade trooper. 110th Territorial Brigade A few videos circulating online and depicting the goings-on in one Ukrainian army reserve brigade are not definitive evidence of a coming...
Zelensky Urges World Leaders To Double Down On Russia And End War Now
Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged world leaders gathered at the Group of 20 summit in Bali to double down on Russia and push it to end its war now, upping the diplomatic ...
Kherson’s Liberation Is The ‘Beginning Of The End’ Of War With Russia, Zelensky Says
Topline In an unannounced visit to Kherson Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the city’s recent liberation—following Russia’s announcement it was retreating last week—the “beginning...
A Strategic Strip Of Sand. Rumors Of Ukrainian Raids. As Russian Forces Retreat, Keep An Eye On The Kinburn Spit.
Kinburn Spit. Google Maps The Kinburn Spit is a narrow finger of sand and scrub, barely three miles long, that juts from the wider Kinburn Peninsula into the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnipro River...
The Dnipro River Poses A Large Challenge For The Ukrainian Counter-Offensive
Last week, the Russian military decided to abandon the city of Kherson and retreat to the east bank of the Dnipro River. As part of the operation, they destroyed or damaged every major river crossing ...
Kherson Liberated – Trustnodes
The Ukrainian flag flies over the town square of Kherson, as does the EU flag in a symbolic statement that this city too is now part of a European Union candidate country. “It’s an historic day,” the ...
Russia’s Retreat From Kherson Is Complete As Strategic Bridge Into The City Collapses
Topline Russia on Friday said its forces had completed their withdrawal from the key city of Kherson—one of the first major Ukrainian cities captured by Russian troops—but the collapse of a strategic ...
Biggest Defeat For Russia In A Generation As Starving Troops Flee Across A Key Ukrainian River
Ukrainian forces in Kherson Oblast. Czech T.V. capture The Kremlin has ordered its forces to withdraw from the city of Kherson on the Black Sea coast in southern Ukraine. The order comes eight months ...
The Russian Army Appears To Be Pulling Out Of Kherson
Ukrainian troops with M-113 personnel carriers. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A city bus, rolling unimpeded past a military checkpoint in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson on or before Thursday,...
The Russians Are Fleeing Southern Ukraine. They Could Cause A Lot Of Damage On Their Way Out.
Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian army is retreating from Kherson. And it’s poised to leave behind it a lot of destruction and dead bodies. Kherson, a port at the mouth of the Dnipro River ...
Russia Urges Kherson Evacuation Amid Warnings Of Imminent Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Topline Russian-installed authorities in Kherson ordered residents to “immediately” evacuate the area as Ukrainian forces close in on the eastern Ukrainian city—captured by Russian forces in the early...
Russians Are Leaving Kherson Says Former Spokesperson – Trustnodes
Russia is about to face its biggest defeat so far with a former spokesperson to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Iuliia Mendel, stating: “Russians are leaving Kherson, the local citizens sa...
Is Russia Retreating From Kherson? – Trustnodes
“The administration of the Kherson region has been transferred to the left bank of the Dnieper,” Russian collaborator and deputy governor of Kherson Kirill Stremousov said according to Russian state m...
Kherson Must Be Liberated Says ISW – Trustnodes
If the conflict in Ukraine is frozen on the current occupied lines, then the war will just restart again in a few years according to the Institute for the Study of War, with Russia at an advantage. “I...
Ukraine Has A Plan To Win The War
A Ukrainian 2S7 howitzer. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It’s going to take engineers nine months to finish repairs to the Kerch Bridge after Ukrainian forces blew up the strategic span, connecting ...
Putin Finalizes Annexation As Ukraine Forces Russia Into Retreat On Southern Front Line
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed legislation finalizing Moscow’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions, pushing forward despite not controlling any of the four provi...
Rivers At Their Backs And Ukrainian Brigades Closing In, A Lot Of Russian Troops Might Need To Learn To Swim
The Ukrainian 128th Mountain Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russian paratroopers are fleeing their positions in a critical sector of the front in southern Ukraine. While at least one Ukrain...
Ukraine’s Counteroffensives Appear To Be Part Of A Much Bigger Plan—To Divide The Russian Army
A Ukrainian army BMP fighting vehicle. Ukrainian defense ministry photo A month into Ukraine’s twin counteroffensives in southern and eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s overall strategy is becoming clearer. Expe...
Ukrainian Forces Are Advancing In Southern Ukraine
Ukrainian troops liberate Khreshchenivka. Ukrainian army photo Just a day after liberating Lyman, a key supply hub for Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are on the move in the south,...
Russia Will Annex Occupied Ukrainian Territories On Friday, Kremlin Says—Following ‘Sham’ Referendums
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin will move to annex four Ukrainian provinces—some of which are not under complete Russian control—by signing a decree Friday afternoon, the Kremlin announced on...
Ukraine’s Stunning Advance Continues—Military Says It’s Recaptured Several Towns And Cities In Past Day
Topline Ukraine’s military claimed Monday it had recaptured more than 20 towns and villages in the past 24 hours as part of its fast-moving counteroffensive in the northeast of the country, capping of...
The Ukrainian Army Is Surrounding 10,000 Russian Troops In The East
A Ukrainian soldier with an abandoned Russian BTR-80 armored vehicle in Kharkiv Oblast. Via social media Two days after punching through Russian defenses outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian forces ...
Ukrainian Brigades Have Punched Through Russian Lines Around Kharkiv
Ukrainian troops assault a Russian position in the east. Via social media Eight days after Ukrainian forces counterattacked in southern Ukraine on Aug. 30, advancing miles toward Russian-occupied Kher...
Ukraine Is Attacking Everywhere
Ukrainian troops advance in the south. Via social media The Ukrainian armed forces are attacking along three fronts in the south, east and north, reversing some of the territorial gains the Russian ar...
World Holds Breath as the Battle For Kherson Rages – Trustnodes
For the first time in six months, it is the Ukrainian defenders finally advancing against the invading forces with the aim of capturing the first city that fell to the Russian army, Kherson. A country...
Confusion Deepens As The Ukrainian Army Rolls South Toward Kherson
Ukrainian forces advancing in Kherson Oblast. Via social media After more than three months of preparation, the Ukrainian army on Monday launched its highly-anticipated counteroffensive in southern Uk...
Ukraine’s Southern Counteroffensive, Long Rumored, Might Finally Have Begun
Ukrainian forces reportedly in Kherson Oblast. Via social media With a flurry of rockets from American-made launchers, Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine attacked toward Russian-occupied Kherson on ...
Russia Captured Three Of Ukraine’s Smallest Helicopters. So Ukraine’s Allies Sent Three Replacements.
Russian army trucks hauling ex-Ukrainian Mi-2s. Via social media When Russian troops overran the port city of Kherson in southern Ukraine early in Russia’s wider war with Ukraine beginning in late Feb...