Ukraine has been carrying out strikes on bridges in the south—key Russian supply lines from the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
Russian forces are likely “under-manned” in Kherson, the U.K. Ministry of Defense has said, as Ukraine on Monday said it had started its counteroffensive in the southern region of the country that was taken by Moscow in the early days of the war.
Ukraine has been carrying out strikes on bridges in the region, key supply lines for the Russian army from the occupied Crimean Peninsula to southern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said Monday that they have been using the U.S.-supplied HIMARS weapons to carry out successful strikes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also vowed to take back Russian-held Crimea and Kherson. The Black Sea peninsula has been occupied by Russia since it illegally annexed the region in 2014.
In its daily intelligence update on Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense said that from early on Monday, several brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces increased artillery in front-line sectors across southern parts of the country.
