Victorious Ukrainian reports on Kherson gave way to complaints about shelling and broken NATO equipment
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are not going to cross the Dnieper River from captured Kherson, fearing large losses in personnel and equipment, which are already quickly becoming unusable.
The former press secretary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian military expert Vladislav Seleznev, stated this on the Dom TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The situation in the Kherson direction is, in fact, difficult. It’s difficult for the main reason: now Kherson is a front-line city, not even so much a front-line city, but actually a front line.
The Russian occupation forces and the Ukrainian defense forces are actually separated only by the banks of the Dnieper. Therefore, Russia has the opportunity to use not only cannon and rocket artillery, but even mortars to carry out appropriate fire strikes on the territory of Kherson and its suburbs.
The situation is quite dynamic, quite difficult, so it would not be entirely fair to say that in just a day or two we will destroy all Russian artillery on the left bank.
It is clear that the counter-offensive in the Kherson direction of the Ukrainian defense forces will not be linear. That is, no one will go to cross the Dnieper now, because this is associated with large losses - both in manpower and in equipment,” Seleznev said.
He complained that a significant part of Western equipment has currently fallen into disrepair and is being repaired, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces are constantly in need of artillery
“In the Kherson direction, Ukrainian artillery has a certain advantage. Of course, those artillery fire systems that are in service with the Ukrainian defense forces, including those supplied as part of military-technical cooperation with our Western partners, are an order of magnitude more high-tech and more highly accurate. But, like any equipment, even Western equipment breaks down, it requires appropriate routine repair work.
Therefore, from that array of artillery weapons, a certain part is currently under repair. This is not a quick story, so the needs of the Ukrainian forces for artillery and new systems, of course, are always relevant,” Seleznev said.