FORBES: “Yard By Yard, The Ukrainians Appear To Be Pushing Toward Kherson”

That’s the title of a Forbes article about the recent successes of the Ukrainian army on the southern front. The author is skeptical about Fridayʼs reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have surrounded several thousand occupiers near Vysokopillya, but he does not doubt that Ukrainians pose an increasing threat to Russians in Kherson oblast in general.

Proof of this is the successful capture of the crossing over the Ingulets River near Davydiv Brid and successful strikes on warehouses in Nova Kakhovka. Attacks on objects in the city, located on the left bank of the Dnipro River, show that the Ukrainian troops are already close enough to get there. And taking into account the recent partial destruction with the help of the HIMARS system of the Antonivsky bridge ― one of the main sources of supply of Russian ammunition and soldiers to the temporarily occupied regional center ― the situation for the Kremlin becomes even more threatening.

“If I were a Russian soldier in Kherson, I would be pretty scared now,” the article quotes Mike Martin, a military researcher from Kingʼs College London. “Yes, Ukraine has now concentrated its largest and best forces in the east, yes, Russian attacks are causing losses to Ukrainians and the superiority in forces is not obvious at the moment. But I will keep a close eye on Kherson in the next 10 days, expecting big news,” concludes Mr Martin.