If Russia will open a front in this place, the goal will be to storm and occupy the territory where the Dnieper flows into the Black Sea.
– The situation there is currently quite tense. Last week the enemy moved a division river cutter squadron from the base in Sevastopol. They will be used to maintain control over this territory, said Władysław Wołoszyn, spokesman for the southern defense forces, on the Freedom TV channel.
The Kinburn Spit is less than eight kilometers long. It is the westernmost part of the Kinburn Peninsula the western part lies in the Mykolaiv Oblast and the eastern part in the Kherson Oblast.
An attack from the spit would provide the Russians with additional wing of the front in the Kherson region. They occupied the city at the beginning of the war, later withdrew and Ukrainian troops liberated it in November 2022.
Coordinated Russian operation. They are expanding Ukraine's forces
This is not all the activities on noon Ukrainy. Last week, Voloshin talked about an expected Russian offensive nearby Zaporozhye Oblast.
What's more, Moscow is constantly fighting for new cities in the central part of the front in the Donetsk Oblast and in the northern part – towards Kupiańska. Oleksandr Musienka from the Center for Military-Legal Studies, quoted by the RBK-Ukraine agency, indicated that the Russians' goal is to force Ukrainians to extending their units on the front and at the same time weakening their forces in the main direction of attack in the Donetsk Oblast.
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