The departure of Russian troops from the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region will allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take under the fire control “Ground Bridge” to the Crimea – the isthmus, which is located about 100 km from Kherson, writes Financial Times.
We are talking about the tracks of Kherson – Armyansk, Kherson – Melitopol and Melitopol – Dzhanka. On these routes, Russia supplies its troops in the south of Ukraine and in Crimea. In addition to the supply routes themselves, the Ukrainian army will be able, using long-range artillery, to reach the Russian warehouses of ammunition and material and technical support facilities on the peninsula.
According to the adviser to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Sergei Kuzan, the Kherson region is “strategically important from a military point of view, since it gives us fire control over the roads from the Crimea that Russians use as supply lines.” “It will be a very big blow to Russian forces,” he predicts.
Despite the announced conclusion of the Russian troops from the right bank of the Dnieper, according to Kuzan, “their best ground forces remained” around Kherson, and artillery, thrown to the east side of the Dnieper, can reach the front line.
Meanwhile, the liberation of Kherson will not provide Ukraine with the opportunity to immediately begin a large -scale attack on Crimea, writes Bloomberg with reference to an unnamed Western official. He notes that the passage to the Crimea for the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be difficult to fortified defensive lines on the border with the peninsula.