Ukraine Update: Action in the south is larger, more important than previously reported

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On Wednesday night, Ukraine reportedly did what many had expected this week: take advantage of a waning moon and Western night-vision gear to attack Russian positions along the southern front. The results of these attacks aren’t fully known as Ukraine maintains operational silence, but it’s now clear that the counteroffensive is really, truly underway. And that includes Leopard tanks being involved in combat.

Meanwhile, Russia has continued its own attack in the west. After flooding the Kherson area by blowing up the Kakhovka Dam, Russian forces have reportedly destroyed several dams on smaller reservoirs in the area, along with preparing still more dams for destruction The point of all this seems to be to put as much water and mud between Russian forces and a potential Ukrainian counterattack across the river as possible, while still allowing Russian artillery to fire into Kherson. That it’s leaving people stranded on rooftops across the area occupied by Russia doesn’t appear to be a concern.

Four days after Russian sources first began reporting Ukrainian attacks along a section of the southern front, those attacks seem to be getting ever larger and more significant. Rather than just small unit actions, it now seems as if at least three full brigades are engaged in the area around Velyka Novosilka pressing Russian forces back.

But that does leave one big question that is surely of high interest to Russia: Where are Ukraine’s nine other strike brigades?

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