Ukrainian forces attack Russian resupply lines in Kherson – Observer

Ukrainian forces on Friday attacked Russian military resupply lines in Kherson, one of the main urban areas seized by the invaders at the start of the war.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said so far “88 positions have been withdrawn” from Russian forces in the Kherson region, 13 more than the balance of the previous offensive in the Kiev region.

Russian authorities Four people, including two journalists, claimed their share of the deadDuring the night bombing of a bridge in Kherson.

“The city of Kherson, like a fortress, prepares its defenses”Kherson, said Kirill Stremoussov, deputy officer in charge of the Russian occupation.

Russian television broadcast footage of a damaged car and a traffic jam of vehicles waiting to cross a river.

The Ukrainian military denied targeting civilians: “We did not attack essential infrastructure, we did not attack peaceful settlements and the local population,” said a spokeswoman, Natalia Koumeniuk.

A spokesman for Ukraine’s operational command in the south of the country confirmed that the Antonievsky bridge was hit just after 22:00 local time, a curfew for civilians.

Pro-Russian forces urged civilians to move to the left bank of the Dnieper River in the face of a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the region recently annexed by Moscow, by which time more than 15,000 people would have been evacuated from the occupied Kherson region.

Last week, on Thursday, October 13, the Moscow-appointed interim governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Zalto, asked the population of a part of the territory on the right bank of the Dnieper to move to the other bank. Faces of advancing Ukrainian troops.

Saldo said that on the first day, more than 7,000 citizens were transported when the organized evacuation began this Wednesday. Boats to the left bank of the Dnieper River.

In total, pro-Russian officials aim to evacuate 50,000 to 60,000 people within six days.

In addition, they had already established the power structures of the civil and military administration outside the regional capital, on the other side of the river.

Also today, the governor of Belgorod, a Russian region near the border with Ukraine, Vyacheslav Klatkov, blamed the Ukrainian army for an attack on a paint factory that injured a woman in the town of Shebekino.

Ukrainian counter-attacks along the Russian border are frequent, and just this week authorities in Kursk and Belgorod announced the destruction of an electrical substation and railway station.