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Kiev forces have stepped up their attacks near the Antonovsk Bridge In the Kherson sector, in what appears to be an attempt to establish a bridgehead on the Russian-held part of the Dnieper River left bank.
Heavy clashes were reported near the bridge on June 28 and 29, after Kiev forces launched several attacks towards Dachi village and landed troops on small islands in the river. During the new wave of attack, a Ukrainian boody-trapped boat approached Russian defenses on the Dnieper bank. However, it was destroyed.
Video footage from this sector also showed intense Russian strikes on the staging ground of Kiev forces on the right bank of the Dnieper River.
The ongoing attack in Kherson indicates that Ukraine was indeed behind the attack on Kakhovka Dam earlier this month. Without the destruction of the dam, it would not have been harder for Kiev to land forces near the Antonovsk Bridge.
New Ukrainian attacks were not limited to Kherson. In the Donetsk sector, Kiev forces made several attempts to advance in the direction of Bakhmut. However, they failed to make any meaningful gains.
Fighting was also reported in the Zaphorohey sector, where the Russian military repelled several new attacks. Videos from this sector showed the destruction of a Ukrainian American-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar with a Lancet loitering munition as well as the destruction of an upgraded T-64 main battle tank with direct fire.
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense released videos documenting recent operations by Ka-52 attack helicopters and Su-25 close air support jets as well as a recent strike with a precision-guided Krasnopol artillery shell that destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot near Avdeevka in Donetsk.
Kiev forces have sustained heavy losses and failed to make any meaningful gains since launching their so-called counteroffensive on June 4.
This failure is frustrating Kiev’s main backers who financed the counteroffensive with tens of billions. In a sign of this frustration, United States President Joe Biden claimed on June 28 that Russia is “losing the war in Iraq”. The baffling comment was widely mocked on social media.
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