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Ukraine Says More Than 100 Russian Soldiers Killed In Latest Fighting In Kherson [1]
["Rfe Rl'S Ukrainian Service"]
Date: 2022-07
The Ukrainian military said on July 30 that it had killed more than 100 Russian soldiers and destroyed two ammunition dumps in fresh fighting in the Kherson region, where Kyiv is concentrating its biggest counteroffensive since the start of the war.
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The military's southern command said that rail traffic to Kherson over the Dnieper River had been cut, potentially further isolating Russian forces west of the river from supplies in Russian-annexed Crimea and the east.
Ukraine has used Western-supplied long-range missile systems to badly damage three bridges across the river in recent weeks, making it more difficult for Russia to supply its forces.
"As a result of fire establishing control over the main transport links in occupied territory, it has been established that traffic over the rail bridge crossing the Dnieper is not possible," Ukraine's southern command said in a statement.
It said some 170 Russian soldiers had been killed and seven tanks destroyed in fighting on July 29 in the southern region.
The claims cannot be independently verified.
The Berislav district was particularly hard hit, according to Dmytro Butriy, the pro-Ukrainian governor of the Kherson region. Berislav is across the river, northwest of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
"In some villages, not a single home has been left intact, all infrastructure has been destroyed, people are living in cellars," Butriy wrote on Telegram.
Officials warned residents to stay away from Russian ammunition dumps.
"The Ukrainian Army is pouring it on against the Russians and this is only the beginning," Yuriy Sobolevskiy, the first deputy head of the Kherson regional council wrote on the Telegram app.
The Kherson region, which borders Crimea, fell to the Russians soon after the February 24 invasion.
Russian forces continued rocket attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine's sprawling front line overnight, killing at least one person and hitting civilian targets, Ukrainian officials said on July 30.
The mayor of the southern port city of Mykolayiv said that at least one person was killed and six others were wounded in shelling that hit a residential area. The strikes left “windows and doors broken, and balconies destroyed," Oleksandr Sienkevych wrote on Telegram.
A school building was hit in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Russian rockets also hit a bus station in the city of Slovyansk, according to Mayor Vadym Lyakh. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Britain's Defense Ministry said on July 30 that Russia had likely established two pontoon bridges and a ferry system to compensate for bridges damaged in recent Ukrainian strikes.
In its regular bulletin the ministry said “it is likely” that Ukraine has also “successfully repelled small- scale Russian assaults from the long-established front line near Donetsk city in the Donbas.”
The previous day, the ministry tweeted that the Kremlin was “growing desperate” as Russia “has lost tens of thousands of soldiers” in the unjust war it “won’t win.”
On July 30, Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency, Richard Moore, retweeted the Defense Ministry’s comment, saying Russia is “running out of steam.”
With reporting by Reuters and unian.net
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