The past day, the Russian army stopped two attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) to force the Dnieper, five boats and 30 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed. This was reported to reporters by a representative from the area’s emergency services. TASS.
“As a result of the fire damage of the formations of the Dnepr group troops in the island region, the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to force the Dnieper River in the Veliky Island area was thwarted by the fire that broke out. “Three boats and 14 militants belonging to the Ukrainian army were destroyed,” he said.
The representative of the emergency services said that when trying to force the Dnieper near Antonovsky Island in the direction of Kherson, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost two more boats and 16 more soldiers.
Prior to this, the acting governor of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, noted that Ukrainian troops fought with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation near the Antonovsky bridge. loss at least a hundred soldiers were killed and more were wounded.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).
Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister told how Putin is. discretion Ukrainian army.