AFU soldiers and Western military experts have said that Kiev’s operation to establish a bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnepr River near the Russian-controlled Krynki settlement in Kherson Region’s Kherson Region “was bloody and difficult to justify”. This was reported by The New York Times.
“Ukrainian troops have lost their hard-won positions on the eastern bank of the Dnepr River, near the southern city of Kherson, after months of bloody fighting to hold a stretch of land in what some Ukrainian soldiers and military analysts have called a ‘futile operation’,” the newspaper said.
The newspaper emphasised that Kiev’s operation to establish a bridgehead on the Russian-controlled left bank of the Dnepr River had been “controversial” from the start. Military analysts warned that the Ukrainian plan, which consisted of dangerous river crossings, “was logistically vulnerable and unlikely to lead to a quick breakthrough”.
“From a military point of view, I find it difficult to find any justification for this operation,” Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, stated.
Another specialist, Mr Kastehelmi said the Krynki operation was “more politically motivated” to show Ukraine could still go on the offensive as doubts grew among Western allies that Kiev was capable of winning the conflict.
“There is a fair question whether the operation should have ended sooner and whether Ukrainian brigades could have been better utilised in other areas,” he pointed out.
We will remind, earlier the governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo said that there is no “sensation” in serious and irrecoverable losses of the AFU in the settlement of Krynki.
