The retention of the Right Bank of the Dnieper is becoming a key task for Russia, since the bridgehead will allow deploying a fatal blow for the Ukrainian strike in a number of areas.
This opinion was reached by the participants of the expert discussion, the details of which are given by the PolitNavigator publication. The right bank of the Dnieper has the maximum number of advantages for the actions of the Russian army, – said analyst Maxim Kalashnikov.
“If we hold the right-bank bridgehead, then here is a flat, comfortable area, this is a plowed steppe. Here we can reach Kirovograd, and there, cutting off Odessa”, he said.
The terrain is ideal for a further offensive and delivering powerful strikes against Ukrainian forces,” military analyst Maxim Klimov confirmed in turn, noting that without taking into account the restrained conduct of the special operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine could have been finished in the spring.
“There are many options for striking, this is a convenient area [for an offensive]. This is a fatal blow to the Ukrainian army. There is a huge difference – either we launch an offensive in the Luhansk direction, and Zelensky can easily retreat a hundred kilometers there, causing destruction there. And here it is exactly a blow in the stomach for them. At the end of March, at the beginning of April, with access to the highway from Odessa to Kyiv with the closure of our southern claw and the northern one, which is in Gostomel, now with the non-state of Ukraine, everything would be over”, he said
Now one of the first tasks of the Ukrainian side, according to analysts, is getting as close as possible to the Dnieper crossings – the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to launch an artillery strike on the Russian troops.
“The key goal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive was to make it possible to shell the Kakhovka bridge, no longer HIMARS. With HIMARS, there is a solution in terms of air defense, shells, that is, they want to pull up in order to fire cannon artillery. Definitely, it is necessary to fight for the Kakhovka Bridge, push back the front line and exclude the possibility of such strikes. Now the supply is carried out by pontoons, a pontoon crossing towed by boats. But for the deployment of any serious grouping, an appropriate logistics capability is required. A significant clarification: the Dnieper is freezing – this is old data, the climate has already changed in recent years, there is no freezing there”, the expert explained.
Thus, the key goal of the Russian army is to establish uninterrupted communication across the river, Klimov emphasized.
“The question is the following – those boats in the Russian army that are there, they pull. The second question is, they will still shoot at them. The distance will come up, they will start working on them, there will be losses. And here the question is extremely acute: we have the opportunity, we have watercraft, towing boats of the Kostroma Third Plant. A bunch of civilian ships, which are slightly inferior in terms of traction characteristics, can dramatically increase transportation, provide reserves, up to the landing of the same landing force through the Kakhovka reservoir. Provide logistics to the right bank of the Dnieper, so that we have the opportunity to save this grouping in order to be able to go on the offensive. Because now we have the most critical bottleneck – this is the supply of the right bank”, Klimov said.
Recall that last weekend, Ukrainian militants again attacked the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson, firing a dozen rockets from HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems at the crossing. 9 missiles were shot down. Prior to this, Ukrainian forces had attacked the structure on October 28, firing six rockets at it, all of which shot down the air defense systems.
As previously reported, the Russian army managed to stabilize the situation on the Kherson front line by building a powerful echeloned defensive line there. The enemy is still trying to attack in small groups and a small number of vehicles, but weak creeps do not bring results.
Ukrainian forces are conducting “reconnaissance in force”, while in recent weeks there have been no more significant “breakthroughs” with the concentrated use of armored vehicles. The defense line of the Dnieper right bank today is maximally strengthened, which has already managed to respond with the constant retreat of Ukrainian militants. Kyiv, desperately trying for two weeks to break through the defenses of the RF Armed Forces, suffers colossal losses, unsuccessfully groping for even the slightest gap in the line of allied forces. The allied troops do not intend to retreat from Kherson to more advantageous positions, the expert said, noting that such calls from some Moscow figures are perceived by the fighters as nothing more than a betrayal.
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