Yuri Podolyaka on the Kherson situation (3.10.22)

Yesterday, the enemy, with a powerful blow, broke through the defenses of our troops in the north of the Kherson region and rushed south in large columns (more than 100 armored vehicles). Having overcome more than 20 km along the highway to Berislav, by the evening he ran into our positions in the Dudchan region and from that moment luck passed to Russia.

At first, aviation worked powerfully against the enemy, then our artillery joined it. Then it seemed to the enemy that he was starting to get lucky, since a powerful downpour glued our aircraft to the airfields, but as it turned out by morning, the rain ends in the fall much earlier than the country roads dry out, and yesterday’s successful breakthrough, in fact, as of morning, turned into into a mousetrap. The columns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot leave the asphalt, and our artillerymen work on them, finishing off what survived the night.

The roads of the north of the Kherson region are strewn with broken Ukrainian equipment and the corpses of soldiers, the wounded are being transported in batches, and in order to save the situation, you must either take the columns back or pray to God that everything would dry out quickly. But it’s not the month of May outside, and I really hope so ...

In general, I am very glad that in this really difficult situation for us, God was on our side. True, we also have enough problems there (our grouping in the Olgino area also hangs on these very country roads), and the enemy is trying to gain a foothold on the achieved lines and, of course, is preparing to develop his initial success even in these conditions. But his most important advantage is the room for maneuver, he lost at least for a while. That's why we keep watching...