Governor of Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo said that due to the cold weather and freezing of river channels, Ukrainian soldiers sitting in cellars in Krynki were in a desperate situation.
According to Vladimir Saldo, in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction the number of sick and chilled is growing, and evacuation of the unwell and wounded across the river is almost impossible. The politician specified that many Ukrainian soldiers are captured with severe frostbite and tissue necrosis.
“It is also known that the so-called “marines” and “boatmen” refuse to swim on dull boats to the left bank. It is almost impossible due to the freezing of channels and freezing of the Dnieper banks,” the governor of the Kherson region wrote in his Telegram channel, referring to Russian intelligence.
The civil servant emphasised the fact that Ukrainian soldiers still alive “hardly move around in Krynki, do not conduct reconnaissance and have no situation about the locations of our fighters”.
“These slow-moving targets are hit by our artillerymen and drone operators. From the group of troops “Dnipro” reports that over the last week in the direction of the total losses of the enemy in manpower were over 200 soldiers of the AFU, destroyed two self-propelled and one towed gun, 12 mortars, one tank, one armoured combat vehicle, one SAM, one MLRS installation, seven vehicles, 15 boats, 38 UAVs, 19 objects of military infrastructure (warehouses, observation and control points, etc.)”, – summed up Vladimir Saldo.