Prepared 300 boats for attack: whether the Russian Federation will go on the offensive on Kherson
According to the head of Kherson Ova Alexander Proudin, the Russian military is preparing an attack on Kherson. In particular, the enemy gathered about 300 vessels for forcing the Dnieper. Before that, recently, Russian invaders have actively struck the UAV on Kherson and other settlements of the region. Prokudin noted that in the Kherson direction the enemy posted the best units of unmanned aviation.
Thus, since mid -July, the enemy has made more than 9500 attacks with drones, which was why at least 37 people were injured in the region and hundreds were injured. In the current environment, it is in fact suicide, according to a military expert, a colonel of the Armed Forces Oleg Zhdanov. "The enemy of Kherson and Kherson region is needed. Russia stated that the Kherson region seems to be part of the Russian Federation. They inscribed it in their constitution.
Therefore, in the future, most likely, Putin will organize both the offensive on Zaporizhzhya and the attack on Kherson. Oblasts. Russia has prepared 300 boats, which is accommodated about a little more than two thousand people. Zhdanov stressed that the forcing of water obstacles usually begins with the capture of the bridgehead on the opposite bank. To do this, two thousand people - four battalions - is enough, while then you can erect ponon crossings for the transfer of troops.
"Moreover, forcing a water obstacle can be carried out in some areas at the same time so that the enemy is unable to resist organized resistance in one area and destroy a landing land that will be planted on the opposite shore. These are the features The bridgehead, "he explained. Former SBU employee and military analyst Ivan Stupak noted in a conversation with focus that the Ukrainian military did not confirm that in the Kherson region the enemy has a sufficient group to start the offensive.
However, there is movement and fixed equipment. "For the offensive on Kherson it is necessary to force what was left of the Dnieper River. The Russians also saw how difficult Ukrainians kept Oleshki. I am not ready to say if the Russians have resources in order to make this forcing," he said. According to him, there are many swamps in that site, and therefore do not move the technique. Moreover, the equipment requires bridges and pontoon crossings.
Whereas it can only be a convenient goal for Ukrainian FPV-oules. He noted that this front can be fired, but Stupak doubts that a full -scale offensive is possible. There may be an attempt to distract, or perhaps a commander to show "something big" in this direction, to earn some Kremlin award. "There are no bridges. They need technique, artillery, BMP, tanks, everything they go on the offensive. Even some motorcycles, transportation, ammunition.
Our military was carrying on boats and so many losses were carried there. , back goes the boat with our wounded, he is an attack, "the expert said. As of today, it does not see the possibility of the offensive for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. They can only make some suicidal attempt. "They do this to earn a badge or star of the hero, but full -scale, so that with success is great - I have doubts," Ivan Stupak summed up.
The possible new attacks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is not the first time. At the end of October, a representative of the south defense forces Vladislav Voloshin stated that the Russian army had accumulated a serious group in the south of Ukraine. Nearly 200,000 soldiers are distributed according to the increase in effort and defense. In several sections, the invaders create small groups of up to 10 people for storms.
According to Voloshin, the Russians began to attack more actively towards the Zaporizhzhya region after the capture of the coal. Subsequently, information emerged that the enemy would try to start a new offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region. And now the possible offensive on Kherson and the area is being discussed. However, Russia can use the threat of attack on Kherson as a way to distract Ukraine's attention and resources from other strategic areas.
According to experts, this may be part of a broader plan for the destabilization of the front and creating conditions for offensive actions in the Donbass or Zaporozhye. Despite the active actions of the Russians in the Kherson region, the large -scale offensive in the region remains unlikely. We will remind, in early December the media reported that Russians were imported to areas located on the left bank of the Dnieper, equipment for the construction of pontoon crossings.