Almost the entire island zone of the Dnipro River in Kherson region is under the fire control of the Ukrainian military, so the enemy is not making progress.
This was stated by the spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces Vladyslav Voloshyn during a telethon, UNN reports .
Now the enemy is conducting about 5 to 7 assault and forcing operations per day, and they are more like reconnaissance and search operations
Voloshyn described how this reconnaissance looks like a Russian battle.
These are 2-3 boats, 5-7 people are trying to land on our shore, more of them are in the island zone, in particular, on Kozatsky Island, to conduct assault operations there. They are trying to drive our defenders out of there. Almost all of this area is under the fire control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces - the island zone of the Dnipro, so the enemy has no success
In addition, he emphasized that in order to advance on Kherson, it is necessary to force the Dnipro.
In order to force it (the river - ed.), it is necessary to gather enough forces and means, which are very difficult to hide with today's intelligence tools. At present, our intelligence has not detected and cannot say that the enemy has gathered enough offensive forces and means to force the Dnipro
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On December 20, the Russians unleashed a real hell in Kherson in the morning, starting to bombard the city with massive fire at 5 am. The enemy attacked residential buildings, social and critical infrastructure. About 1000 shells arrived.
According to BBC Ukraine, Russian troops also attempted to cross the Dnipro River and land near Kherson. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russian occupants have intensified their activities in the Kherson direction. The Ukrainian military repelled an attempt by Russian forces there.