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Kherson. Ukraine announces the start of its offensive in the region

May 29, 2022 Jordan Hansen

Today, Saturday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported, via Facebook, that the Ukrainian forces launched an attack in the Kherson region in the south of the country, inflicting losses on the enemy and forcing it to move to less comfortable positions.

Wojciech Szewko posted a map on social media showing the area of the Ukrainian attack.

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Occupied Kherson closes the border with Ukraine

Earlier, representatives of the occupation authorities in Kherson reported the closure of the border with Ukraine.

The Russian-occupied Kherson region has closed its borders to Ukraine’s neighboring regions, Russian state media RIA Novosti reported. The agency quoted Kirill Strimosov, deputy head of the Russian administration in Kherson on Saturday.

“The borders are now closed for security reasons… We do not recommend traveling to Ukraine at all, whatever the case,” Strimosov was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.

Strimosov added that the border crossings of the Kherson region with Ukrainian neighbors: the Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions were closed, and the flight from Kherson to the Crimea or to the Russian-controlled areas of Zaporizhia is still possible.

Milf in Donbass

Currently, the most difficult battles over a wide area of the front are taking place in the Donbass – in eastern Ukraine.

Military operations include, among others, Bashmut, Popasna, Odezhuka, Shiman and the large city of Severodonetsk. That said the Ukrainian side 95 percent of the Russian army occupied the territory of the Luhansk regionAnd the situation throughout the Donbass is “very bad”. Artillery bombardment continues almost without interruption.

president Zelensky described the situation in that region as “extremely difficult”. He called the West to increase the supply of weapons and tighten economic sanctions. At the same time, according to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russians have already used 60 percent. Precision missiles. In some species, up to 70 percent.