Russia is building defensive positions along the front line of the Ukrainian front
According to IRNA’s Sunday report from the Associated Press news agency; In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have cut off the main crossings on the Dnipro River, which separates this southern region of Ukraine from Russian territory, with the focus of the Patak operation on the Kherson region and non-stop artillery shelling, so that the Russian forces stationed in Its West Bank will remain without sufficient support and vulnerable to the encirclement of Ukrainian forces.
Kirill Stromusov, the deputy governor of Kherson region appointed by Russia, said on Sunday that the defense lines of the country’s forces have been strengthened since the local authorities seriously requested all residents of Kherson and its suburbs to evacuate and move to the eastern bank of the river. The situation is stabilized.
This region is one of the four regions of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin joined his country last month (September) and declared martial law and martial law in that region on Thursday. The city of Kherson has been in the hands of Russian forces since the first days of this 9-month war, although recently Ukrainian forces have made advances to recapture it. The governor of Kherson has announced that nearly 20,000 residents of this city have been transferred to places on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River.
But after the liberation of the Kharkiv region in the north of the country last month by the Ukrainian forces, now the western provinces of Russia bordering the northeastern parts of Ukraine are under threat.
Russian Kursk Governor Roman Stravit said on Sunday that 2 defensive lines have been built in this area and the third one will be completed by November 5th.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Belgorod, Russia, by publishing pictures of pyramid-shaped lines of cement blocks to prevent the passage of armored vehicles, said that several defense lines have been built in this area.
Luhansk governor Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian millionaire and owner of Wagner’s private army, who played a prominent role in the war, also announced that more defensive positions were being built in the region in eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces have captured Luhansk a few months ago, when pro-Moscow citizens declared independence from Ukraine eight years ago, along with neighboring Donetsk.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense on Sunday described the plan as a significant Russian effort to build defense-in-depth behind the current front line, possibly to repel any fast-moving Ukrainian offensive.
The Institute for the Study of War in Washington announced on Sunday that Russia’s latest strategy to target Ukraine’s power plants appears to be aimed at destroying its will to fight and forcing the Kiev government to devote more resources to protecting and defending civilians and It is the energy infrastructure that will have heavy economic consequences for this country.
The Joint Staff of the Ukrainian Army announced that Russia’s attacks on energy and vital infrastructure in nine regions of the country, from Odessa in the southwest to Kharkiv in the northeast, have increased and included 25 airstrikes and more than 100 missile and artillery attacks in the past few days.
The Ukrainian army has claimed on Sunday that the Russian army has moved its officers from the west bank of this river and now only newly recruited and inexperienced troops remain in this place, which cannot be independently confirmed.