Battles For Kherson: Columns Of Russian Army Destroyed In Nova Kakhovka And Antonivka
- 3.09.2022, 8:27
The invaders were preparing to cross to the right bank of the Dnieper by ferries and barges.
In the Kherson region, local residents report loud explosions in the area of Antonivka and Nova Kakhovka, an air raid alert was announced in the region, stopcor.org reports.
Local publics report “bangs” in the Kakhovka district and not far from the Antonivka bridge near Kherson.
Earlier, it was noisy in Antonivka around 21:30 on the evening of September 2.
Explosions were heard half an hour after that not far from Nova Kakhovka,
According to preliminary information, there have been precise HIMARS strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on enemy columns of equipment.
Obviously, the columns were preparing to cross from the left to the right bank of the Dnieper by ferries or barges. According to a military analyst who tweets under the pseudonym Def Mon, satellite imagery from the Sentinel hub tonight just recorded possible barge activity near Kherson and Nova Kakhovka.
In addition to the actual equipment, the enemy probably has significant losses of personnel as a result of hits on the crossings. As the Kherson edition of Novy Den reported, citing operational chats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, “as a result of one of the last strikes on a pontoon crossing in the area of the Antonivka bridge, the deputy battalion commander from Tula, Major Kuznetsov Anton Evgenyevich, was torn to pieces.”
Military-political observer, leading expert of the Center for Military-Political Investigations NGO and the Inforesistance group Oleksandr Kovalenko commented on the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kherson in his Telegram channel, Angry Odessan.
“Only in the afternoon, there have been strikes in the area of the Antonivka railway bridge, Pravdine, Oleshek, Nova Kakhovka, again and again, as always. This is a change in the situation in the direction of establishing fire pressure on the entire right bank. And the frequency of this pressure is proof of that,” the observer noted.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the area of occupied Kherson and Energhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian defenders destroyed 3 artillery systems of Russians, an ammunition depot and up to a company of personnel of the Russian army in a day.