Putin sends 2,000 new soldiers to Kherson to stop the Ukrainian advance

Some 2,000 Russian soldiers mobilized by Moscow in recent weeks they have arrived in the occupied territory of the Ukrainian region of Kherson to replenish lost personnel and reinforce units on the front line.

These data appear in a report issued this Friday by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its Facebook page and reproduced by local agencies.

The document states that the occupation authorities issued an order to prepare the evacuation of the so-called “banking institutions” brought by the Russians, lists were prepared for the transfer of medical workers and teachers who had been brought from Russia when the occupation was zone.

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In addition, the humanitarian facilities in Kherson have ceased to function. The enemy tries to hold the captured territories temporarily, focuses its efforts on restricting the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions,” the message said.

The regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Lugansk and Zaporizhia, all of them annexed by Russia, is where the fighting between Ukrainians and Russians has focused in recent weeks, which, according to kyiv, are favorable to the Ukrainian military forces, who have managed to reconquer large territory areas.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian army indicated that the Russians do not stop trying to carry out offensive actions on the front lines of these regions, in the east and south of Ukraine, in towns such as Bakhmut and Avdiivka.

In fact, this Thursday the units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces “repelled Russian attacks near Bilohorivka, in the Luhansk region, and in Opytne, Bakhmut, Pobeda and Marinka, in the neighboring Donetsk region,” the report reads. .

“The enemy bombards Ukrainian positions along the line of contact and conducts aerial reconnaissance,” the note stresses, adding that “in violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of war, the invaders continue to attack infrastructure criticism and the houses of the civilian population”.

In the last 24 hours, the Russians have launched three missile strikes and 24 air strikesplus 30 using multiple rocket launcher systems.

“The invaders used cruise and anti-aircraft guided missiles for their crimes. In addition, the enemy launched more than 20 Iranian-made ‘Shahed-136’ unmanned aerial vehicles (drones),” the General Staff said.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces maintain that since the Russian invasion began on February 24, they have “eliminated” some 66,650 Russian invaders from February 24 to October 20.