Battle for #Kherson: Situation in the #Andreevka and #Berislav Sections at 15:00 on 4 Oct 2022

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Battle for #Kherson: Situation in the #Andreevka and #Berislav Sections at 15:00 on 4 Oct 2022⚡️

Russian forces are regrouping in the north-east of the #Kherson region. Due to the breakthrough of the AFU in the #Berislav sector and the threat of physical encirclement of the Russian group in the villages of #Dudchany and Davydov Brod, it was decided to withdraw the contingent of Russian forces to a new defensive line.

▪️ In addition to Brod, Russian units left #Bolshaya and Malaya Aleksandrovka, #Staroselye, #Trifonovka, Novaya Kamenka, #Olgino and #Arkhangelskoye.

It is not yet entirely clear how the new contact line will run. We assume that today the Russian Forces will be stationed on the line #Kostromka - #Borozenskoye - #Mylovoye. This will avoid creating a 'cauldron' and level the front line.

Given the impossibility of holding the defence in the #KrivoyRog sector, this is the only acceptable option to spare personnel and equipment.

However, the absence of retaliation and counterattacks in the near future will bring the danger of another offensive by Ukrainian Forces on #Berislav and Novaya Kakhovka, as well as on #Kherson from the Posad-Pokrovskoye and #Snigirovka sectors. Moreover, the Ukrainian Forces' control of the #Dnipro coast poses an immediate threat to the Russian contingent on the left bank of the #Dnipro River.

The Ukrainian units, provided there is no resistance, can carry out a landing operation with small boats and ships, of which they have enough. And this is already a blow against the flank of the grouping of RF forces in the #Zaporozhye region and a direct access to #Melitopol.

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