The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation admitted that the Ukrainian military went on the offensive in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation admitted that the Ukrainian troops on August 29 during the day “attempted the offensive” in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The department said that the units of the Ukrainian army suffered heavy losses. According to the Russian side, 26 Ukrainian tanks, 23 infantry combat vehicles, 9 other armored vehicles were destroyed during the battles, 2 Su-25 attack aircraft were shot down. The enemy’s losses in manpower were “more than 560 military personnel”, the Russian department claims.

On August 29, the operational group of the Kakhovka troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that the Ukrainian military went on the offensive in the Kherson region and broke through the first line of defense of Russians.

Information about the breakthrough of defense near Kherson by the publication of Gromadske was confirmed by three sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The publication “Ukrainian Pravda” transfers the words of its source in the Armed Forces: according to his data, the first line of defense in some sections was, but “it is too early to speak, the front is big”.

Officially, from the Russian side, the head of the annexed Crimea Sergey Aksenov was the first to speak. He stated that the information about the APU, which began south, was the “information fake”, which was invented by the Ukrainian “gang of drug addicts and criminals” for its “Western owners”.

TASS later published a message that the “authorities” of the Kherson region refute rumors about the attack of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces on Kherson.

CNN with reference to two high -ranking American officials who have access to intelligence, claims that the Ukrainian army began to “probe” the front line south. This is done allegedly before the preparation of a major counterattack. One of the sources told the channel that, according to American data, Russia was able to deploy at the forefront fewer units than originally supposed. These grades, writes CNN, were taken into account by the Ukrainian military.

The Insider correspondent announced with reference to his own sources in the military department that “Ukrainian troops began an attack on the Kimotiy line-Novodmitovka-Tomina Balka (southwest of Kherson) and quickly managed to reach the level of the third echelon of defense of the RF Armed Forces, since the beginning of the local offensive caused panic at the positions of Russian troops. In the Nikolaev direction, the Russians are trying to return their positions in the village of Blagodnoye. The Snow Maiden of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces took dry bets and “press” in the direction of the new Kakhovka. ”